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PROTESTS took place nationwide and internationally on Saturday to support volunteers with direct action group Palestine Action imprisoned over attacks on companies supplying weapons to Israel.
In England, protests were mounted in support of the Britain-based group in Manchester, Liverpool, London, Birmingham, Sheffield and Brighton.
Palestine supporters in France plastered streets with posters.
In Canada, protesters demonstrated outside Scotiabank in Vancouver, which invests in Israeli-owned arms firm Elbit Systems.
Six Palestine Action activists are currently detained in British jails.
Two received 16 and 23-month sentences after shutting down Canadian-owned weapons factory APPH in Runcorn.
A Palestine Action spokesperson said: “The show of solidarity from across the world in support of our activists in prison, and others facing prison, for disrupting the production of Israeli weapons, shows the strength of our movement.
“Collectively, we will resist until all Israeli weapons factories in Britain are shut down and the activists, as well as the Palestinian people, are free.”
