Activists in Shipley, England, had been recorded on Tuesday taking a sledgehammer to the roof of a manufacturing facility owned by Teledyne, a US-based protection contractor focused on ties with Israel.
“Breaching safety, the activists scaled the manufacturing facility to take the roof, forcing the positioning [to close] and rendering it unable to meet its cargo of weapons elements for use within the Gaza genocide,” the activists’ group, Palestine Motion, mentioned in a press release.
Palestine Motion activists dismantling Teledyne’s weapons manufacturing facility in Shipley, West Yorkshire, England.The location produces parts for missiles and F-35 fighter jets utilized by the Israeli army to commit genocide in #Gaza.#Gaza_Genocide #Palestine pic.twitter.com/qSxXElIX90
— DOAM (@doamuslims) April 2, 2024
A spokesperson for the native police pressure mentioned that officers obtained a report at 5:04 am of a break-in on the premises and, upon deploying to the situation, discovered four individuals on the roof of a construction.
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Movies posted online Tuesday present several activists smashing home windows and damaging shingles on the roof, proclaiming their opposition to Israel’s army marketing campaign towards Hamas in Gaza. One activist is heard dedicating his motion to the victims of alleged “gang rape” by IDF forces, presumably referring to an extensively circulated, however, later retracted report by Al Jazeera final month.
Uniformed officers, presumably police or non-public safety guards, are seen trying on from the bottom.
A crowd was gathered on the foot of the construction as of about 10am native time, based on the native Telegraph & Argus information outlet, which mentioned that the variety of onlookers had grown throughout the morning.
The report mentioned that West Yorkshire Hearth and Rescue Service, Yorkshire Ambulance Service, and the police had kept the website current.
Teledyne was granted at least 86 licenses to export weapons to Israel between 2009 and 2014, based on a sympathetic report about the incident on the website FreedomNews, citing information from the UK’s Marketing campaign In opposition to Arms Commerce (CAAT). The report mentioned that the manufacturing facility in question “manufactures vital parts for missile techniques” deployed by the IDF in Gaza.
The break-in on Tuesday was not the primary time activists have focused on the corporate: members of the identical group used sledgehammers to interrupt right into a Teledyne website in Wales in December 2022, destroying computer systems and inflicting what the group claims was £1m in losses, although this determines couldn’t be confirmed.
Teledyne didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.
Actionists are reaching each nook of this weapons manufacturing facility to carry it down for Palestine!Be part of them at Teledyne, Shipley, BD17 7SW pic.twitter.com/fWrftE1kBX
— Palestine Motion (@Pal_action) April 2, 2024
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