A British court has sentenced four activists from the Palestine Action group to prison terms for protesting Israeli arms company Elbit Systems, at its facilities in Bristol, where equipment worth more than £1 million was damaged.

Elbit Systems is a major Israeli arms manufacturer and its weapons faciliate the Israeli genocide in Gaza, as well as war crimes and massacres throughout the broader region. Elbit supplies up to 85% of the Israeli military's land-based equipment and drones, while providing the core network infrastructure that digitizes and connects ground forces.

The activists, Charlotte Head, Samuel Corner, Leona Kamio, and Fatema Rajwani, were convicted last month of destroying property at the site using sledgehammers and crowbars during an August 2024 action aimed at disrupting the production of military equipment.

According to court proceedings, the activists damaged computers, drones, and other equipment before confrontations broke out with security personnel and police officers at the facility.

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