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Protesters gather against arrest of Palestine Action activists
The Filton 6 activists [Palestine Action]

PROTESTERS gathered today in support of six Palestine rights activists arrested under the Terrorism Act after targeting a factory manufacturing weapons for Israel.

In the dramatic action on Tuesday, volunteers from Palestine Action used a modified prison van to smash through the perimeter fence of Israeli-owned Elbit Systems research and development factory at Filton in Bristol.

Inside the factory, they used sledgehammers to wreck machinery.

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