LONDON: A UK judge has jailed four activists from the Palestine Action group for raiding an Israeli defense firm and causing over a million dollars in damage in “a terrorist act.”
Charlotte Head, Samuel Corner, Leona Kamio, and Fatema Rajwani had been found guilty last month of destroying equipment belonging to an Elbit Systems site in the southwestern city of Bristol with sledgehammers and crowbars.
Wearing red boiler suits, the four activists damaged computers, drones, and other equipment before clashing with security guards and police who tried to stop them in the August 2024 raid.
The activists said their aim was to ‘dismantle drones and weaponry’ they believed would be used to kill people, particularly in the Gaza Strip.
Corner, 23, hit police officer Kate Evans twice on the back with a seven-pound sledgehammer, leaving her with a fractured spine, Woolwich Crown Court in London was told.
