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FOR Ade Mormech the political is personal. He, alongside other Manchester Palestine Action (MPA) activists, recently occupied the roof of Elbit’s Ferranti factory in Waterhead, Oldham, for three days.
“We think that arms companies like Elbit Ferranti should stop operating when it is clear their weapons are being developed through the mass murder of Palestinians in Gaza and the rest of Palestine. The crimes must stop and so must UK-based companies that are profiting from them.”
Mormech was a teacher at a school in Gaza for two years. “I saw many children die in the hospitals from the kinds of weapons produced here during the ‘Pillar of Cloud’ attacks in 2012.
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