Palestine Action cuts internet at Leonardo arms factory in Scotland
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Activists also spray-painted a fighter jet display at the front of the factory with red to portray Palestinian blood.
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A screenshot of the Palestine Action activists spray painting the electric cable cabinet of the Leonardo factory in Scotland on May 29, 2024 (X/@Pal_Action)
Edinburgh’s Leonardo arms factory had its internet cables cut off by Palestine Action Scotland, who also spray painted red over their fighter jet model displays for being an arms supplier to "Israel" and its genocide in Gaza.
The activists posted a tweet showing them opening the box of cables, cutting the wires, spraying expanding foam inside the box, and spray painting Stop Arming Israel.
Meanwhile, other activists spray-painted the company's fighter jet display red at the front of the factory.
Leonardo is known to be one of the world’s largest weapons manufacturers.
BREAKING: Palestine Action cut Leonardo’s Edinburgh factory’s internet cables, disrupting the producers of targeting systems for Israel’s F-35 fighter jets. pic.twitter.com/u45n1KmSk8
— Palestine Action (@Pal_action) May 28, 2024
Active in Israeli military industry
The Edinburgh factory specializes in ‘high-energy military lasers’ for F-35 fighter jets, which have been used significantly in Gaza by "Israel". The factory also supplies the occupation with Aermacchi M-346 aircraft and parts for its Apache attack helicopters, while profiting from millions in Scottish Enterprise funding.
Not only so, but the company merged with Israeli arms company RADA Electronic Industries which gave Leonardo a "stable domestic presence in the Israeli industrial context."
The Palestine Action group has been quite active in the UK in advocating to stop weapon shipments to "Israel".
Last month, they stormed a US-owned Teledyne factory in West Yorkshire because it exports weapons for the Israeli occupation forces.
Four actionists arrested after they halted the production of parts for Israel’s missiles — They #ShutTeledyneDown pic.twitter.com/oKxn94WJrg
— Palestine Action (@Pal_action) April 3, 2024
In its statement, the group said, "Breaching security, the activists have scaled the factory to take the roof, forcing the site closed and rendering it unable to fulfill its shipment of weapons parts to be used in the Gaza genocide."
In March, they compelled Elbit Systems, "Israel’s" largest arms company, to permanently close yet another weapons factory in the UK, despite facing arrests, raids, and imprisonment.
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