This came after six activists drove a van into Elbit Systems’ research and manufacturing hub in Filton, Bristol in August, dismantling the zionist weapons and quadcopter drones. The action allegedly cost Elbit Systems over $1.3 million. Such direct action targeting Elbit, as well as its subsidiaries and partners, have proven effective in shutting down the transfer of weapons for these merchants of death.

Following the Filton action, 10 people were arrested and imprisoned, detained without charge and interrogated repeatedly. “I am in prison for trying to stop a genocide. My freedom is predicated upon the extermination of others.” Others, including the Teledyne 4, were imprisoned after actions targeting Barclay’s and JP Morgan in Leeds due to their investment in Elbit Systems: “I have brought the intifada into the prison and the struggle continues. Free the prisoners. Free Palestine.”

This week, the abduction campaign escalated, with 10 more people’s homes raided and damaged in relation to the Filton action under the “Terrorism Act,” activists held without charge in typical zionist fashion. Raids continued for over a 24-hour period across the country under this sham act in protection of the zionist entity’s interests. One of the detainees is reportedly held in solitary confinement for over 2 days, fed only 300 calories of food a day. Only one has been released so far, and another has begun an open-ended hunger strike. Protestors have been rallying outside the stations in the cold where actionists have been held for nearly 3 days without charge.

Among the raids was the residence of a 77-year-old woman by “counter terrorism” police; she was kicked out into the snow and expelled from her own residence for days. The mother and younger brother of one of the detainees were also handcuffed, despite lack of any accusations.

We stand firmly with the righteous actionists. This brutal repression expresses the depth of British collusion with the zionist genocide machine, but it also reveals the power of resistance and the cost of complicity. Each raid highlights the effectiveness of these actions in dismantling Elbit’s role in Palestinian genocide. Every machine dismantled, every weapon disrupted, and every act of resistance brings liberation closer.

To those behind bars, to those on hunger strike, and to those defying the storm in all places: your courage ignites a movement that will not falter and will not be silenced. Elbit will fall, the zionist entity will fall, and with them, the machinery of occupation and genocide. Until then, the struggle continues. We are all Palestine Action. #FreeThemAll #ShutElbitDown #ElbitIsGuilty.