Pro-Palestinian protesters who chained the doors of a factory owned by a Zionist military company which manufactures drone engines for the Zionist entity have been arrested and placed in custody by British police.
Pro-Palestinian protesters who chained the doors of a factory owned by a Zionist military company which manufactures drone engines for the Zionist entity have been arrested and placed in custody by British police.
Although Joseph Lee has been the only activist to have been formally charged by police so far after storming the factory along with eight other activists from the London Palestine Action Group (LPAG), the other activists were arrested on Wednesday night for trespassing and are currently in custody.
Russia Today reported that Police Chief Inspector Jane Hewitt said that her officers had “been in regular conversation with the protesters and [had] explained on numerous occasions that their actions in this protest [would] result in their arrest for aggravated trespass.”
The activists occupied the roof of the arms factory in Shenstone, Staffordshire in the early hours on Tuesday, chaining shut the main gates to the factory before scaling the roof, demanding the factory closure, belonging to UAV Engines Limited, a UK registered company owned by Elbit Systems, the Zionist entity's largest weapons company and the world's largest manufacturer of drones.
Draping a banner reading "UK: Stop arming Israel" over the side of the building, protesters spent the morning reading out names of those killed since the latest conflict began.
One of the protesters, Sara Cooper, was quoted by Occupy London saying: "By allowing this factory to export engines for killer drones to Israel, the UK government is providing direct support and approval to Israel's massacres."
On Tuesday, the Deputy Prime Minister of the UK coalition government and leader of the Liberal Democrat Party Nick Clegg called for arms exports to the Zionist entity to be suspended.
His call came immediately after Cabinet Minister and Conservative Party member Baroness Sayeeda Warsi resigned from her post after expressing her criticisms of the UK government's policy on Gaza.
Almost 1,900 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza since the Zionist forces began pounding the blockaded enclave with air, sea and ground assaults on July 7.
Most of those killed were civilians, around a quarter of whom were children.
