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Wales holds 4 pro-Palestinian vandals without bail for targeting defense facility |
2022-12-16 |
[IsraelTimes] Activists to be in jail through Christmas and New Year’s after allegedly causing £500,000 in damage to Teledyne factory, which they claim aids ’Israel’s targeting of Paleostinians’ Four pro-Paleostinian The ...founded in 2020, Palestine Action is as a pro-Palestinian protest network that uses civil disobedience tactics to shut down and disrupt multinational arms dealers. In particular, the group targets UK-based operations that provide weapons used in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. It would be interesting to know how many of their members were previously or are concurrently members of other Black Bloc groups like Antifa, BLM, or the Animal Liberation Front... which claims that the Teledyne Labtech factory in Presteigne, Wales, manufactures "military radars for Israel’s high precision targeting of Paleostinians."Identified in local media as Susan Bagshaw, 65; Morwenna Grey, 41; Ruth Hogg, 39; and Tristan Dixon, 34, the four According to the BBC, the individuals are suspected of causing more than £500,000 in damage to the facility. The Arriving at the factory on Friday, the vandals broke more than 25 windows as well as computers and monitors and other machinery, after using the angle grinder to cut through the roof, prosecutors said. They also threw red paint all over the exterior of the factory. Paleostine Action claimed that the court decision to hold the four individuals without bail "shows the desperation of the British state to protect Israeli weapons." After breaking into the factory, the group said it vowed "to continue this action for as long as possible to stop the manufacture or shipment of Israel’s drone technologies and military gear." The four In a statement from the US-owned defense company Teledyne cited by the BBC, the company said, "We deplore any criminal damage to our sites. Fortunately none of our employees or neighbors were maimed. We are cooperating with local and UK-wide law enforcement agencies." |
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