Join the day of action at F-35 suppliers

Event Date: 8th October 2025
Location: Brough, Cheltenham, Havant, Rochester and Sheffield

On Tuesday, the UN Commission of Inquiry published a report concluding that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. We have known this fact for over 20 months, but this report has provided additional evidence and detailed the legal obligations on governments to stop Israel’s genocide, including by ending arms sales to Israel.  

On 8 October, we’re taking our protests directly to the source – the arms factories supplying Israel with weaponry for its genocide.

We’re holding 5 regional protests at sites supplying Israel’s F-35 fighter jets, used to bomb Gaza. Make plans to join one of the protests in Brough, Cheltenham, Havant, Rochester and Sheffield.

The Israeli military is continuing to intensify its genocide, annihilating the remaining infrastructure in Gaza City as part of its invasion and ethnic cleansing of the city. Israel has ordered the many hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in Gaza City to leave and move south to areas which it has repeatedly bombed and where conditions are dire.  

These atrocities are made possible by arms companies that supply Israel with its arsenal of weaponry, and governments like Britain’s which enable this deadly arms trade.

On Wednesday 8 October, we will descend on 5 sites that enable Israel’s genocide to make visible this deadly supply chain, and to increase the public pressure to end the arms trade with Israel.  

Make plans to join the day of action on 8 October.

The regional protests are taking place at 5 sites in England involved in supplying components for Israel’s F-35 fighter jets used to carry out genocide in Gaza:  

BAE Systems factory in Brough, East Yorkshire, where structural testing for the F-35 fighter jet takes place.  

Ultra Precision Control Systems head office in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire which produces various components for the F-35 fighter jet, including those related to position sensing and control.

Lockheed Martin UK’s office in Havant, Hampshire, the registered sender of at least seven shipments of F-35 components direct from Britain to Israel.  

BAE Systems factory in Rochester, Kent which produces the system used by the pilot to control the fighter jet.  

Forged Solutions Group’s site in Meadowhall, Sheffield. The company is registered on the main arms export license for the F-35 fighter jet.  

You can find more information about each protest linked below, including transport information.