CLIMATE and Palestinian rights activists are currently occupying an Israeli-owned arms factory in Oldham to protest at the firm’s role in the “destruction of people and planet,” the Morning Star can reveal. 

Protesters from Extinction Rebellion North and Palestine Action have smashed in windows and locked onto the gates of the factory after storming the site just after 4am this morning. 

One protester is chained to the gates via a D-lock around her neck, while red paint has been hurled across the front of the five-storey factory. Workers arriving at the site were seen turning around at the gates, prevented from entering by the blockade.