Pro-Palestinian activists break into UK-based Israeli arms company

Pro-Palestinian activists have broken into a UK-based Israeli arms manufacturer, which supplies weapons parts to the Israeli military in its ongoing genocidal war against the Gaza Strip.

It was held on Monday by members of Palestine Action, a UK-wide network of activists focusing on “direct action” to try to disrupt and shut down arms manufacturers headquartered is in the country and contributing to the Israeli regime's murderous aggression against the Palestinians. .

Activists forced their way through three security barriers at Instro Precision, a factory in Kent in the southeast of the United Kingdom that makes “weapons aiming and target acquisition products » for the Israeli army. Specializing in military-grade electro-optical equipment, Instro is a major exporter to the Israeli regime and its products are likely to be used in ground operations in Gaza, says Palestine Action.

During their operation, the militants smashed a glass door and stormed the factory, where they began destroying equipment.

Kent Online, a news outlet, quoted the group as saying it was “dismantling technology, machinery and parts used to produce weapons of war in an effort to prevent the export of weapons to Gaza.”

“A few [activists] also placed spike strips on the roads leading to the factory to prevent any vehicles from entering,” the media outlet reported.

Meanwhile, the chief executive of London-based charity Oxfam has criticized the UK as being “intellectually and morally incoherent” in its supply of weapons to Israel while attempting to provide humanitarian aid to Gaza.

“Whether you say they are components or entire weapons [being sold] “It's a moot point because the individual components collectively constitute these devices that are killing so many innocent people,” Halima Begum said in an interview with the British daily. The Guardian.

“The UK must stop selling these weapons. The government cannot simultaneously provide humanitarian aid and talk about its aspirations for peace in the region, but also send bombs – that is intellectually and morally incoherent.

Gaza has been at war since October 7. The brutal military attack has so far killed at least 37,337 Palestinians, mostly women and children, and injured 85,299 others.