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UK jails Palestine Action activists or Israeli firm raid
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- Add ARY News on Google AAResize London: A UK judge on Friday jailed four activists from the Palestine Action group for raiding an Israeli defence firm and causing over a million pounds in damage in “a terrorist act”.
- Wearing red boilersuits, 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.
- 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.
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Add ARY News on Google AAResize London: A UK judge on Friday jailed four activists from the Palestine Action group for raiding an Israeli defence firm and causing over a million pounds 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 boilersuits, 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.
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