Ray was remanded on 14th August 2024, after being arrested inside Elbit’s weapons hub. Ray is proud of their Indian heritage and East African roots. Rayis currently enrolled to complete their final year of Media studies at university.
“We reject the business of imperialist murder that Britain profits from. The slaughter of Black and Brown bodies that the British arms trade facilitates must end. Long live Palestine.”
Ian took action against Leicester’s Israeli weapons factory by driving a van into the building, whilst others scaled the roof, and destroyed Elbit’swar-drones inside.
Palestine Action is a pro-Palestinian protest network, formed in July 2020, that uses direct action tactics to shut down and disrupt multinational arms dealers. The group targets UK-based operations that provide weapons to Israeli occupation forces. Its main targets are UK factories of Israeli weapons manufacturer Elbit Systems. In their campaigns, Palestine Actionists have used protest and occupation of premises, which has sometimes resulted in participants being arrested.
Ishaq is a Palestine Actionist was sentenced to 14 months for holding Israeli weapons manufacturer, Rafael, to account by planning a rooftop protest on the 75th anniversary of the Nakba. Due to this actrion, the factory lost almost £300,000 and loss of production time on top of that due to its forced closure for two days.
Marwan Hasib Ibrahim Barghouti was born in the West Bank village of Kobar in 1962. He is a prominent and popular political figure associated with Fatah, currently serving five life sentences in an Israeli prison. He is a member of the Fatah Central Committee, and of the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC). Often described by Palestinians as the ‘Palestinian Mandela.’
Nael, fron the town of Kober in Ramallah, is the longest-serving Palestinian prisoner. He is serving a life sentence and an additional 18 years after he was first arrested by Israeli forces on April 4, 1978 for engaging in attacks against the Israeli military. He was released 34 years later in 2011 as part of the Gilad Shalit prisoner exchange deal with Hamas. However, he was rearrested in 2014 and his sentence reinstated following “secret claims” made against him.
Ahed was born in 1968 in Beit Furik, near Nablus. He is serving a life sentence plus 5 years after being jailed by an occupation military court, accused of directing the assassination of the notoriously racist tourism minister of the occupation, Rehavam Ze’evi, in October 2001, in retaliation for the Israeli assassination of PFLP General Secretary Abu Ali Mustafa in August 2001.
