Protesters won't stop taking action to disrupt "Scottish complicity"

Activists have targeted Kelvinside Electronics in Glasgow, spraying the interior with red paint and leaving signs that read: "Drop Leonardo Contract" and "Don't Profit from Genocide".

The pro-Palestinian protesters said the firm has supplied services for both Leonardo and Thales.

Leonardo, based in Edinburgh, is one of the world’s largest arms manufacturers and has close ties to the Israeli State as well as Israeli-based Elbit Systems, a major supplier to the Israeli Army.

The Edinburgh site manufactures the laser-targeting systems for F-35 fighter jets, the model used by Israel to bomb Gaza.

A spokesperson for the activists said: "After a 15-month war of extermination on the people of Gaza, we welcome the news of a ceasefire with cautious hope, but not complacency.

“Israel has repeatedly violated the terms of the ceasefire, it continues to bomb Lebanon, Syria and Yemen and only days after the agreement has killed at least 10 and injured 70 in airstrikes on Jenin in the Occupied West Bank.

“Extremist settler organisations are planning land grabs in North Gaza and South Lebanon; we fear we are witnessing the next phase of a genocidal logic.

“Just as Israeli oppression is not going to end with this ceasefire, we will not stop taking action to disrupt Scottish complicity in the war machine. Free Palestine."

The spokesperson added: "Leonardo and Thales do not supply weapons systems to Israel in isolation - they require a network of inter-company contracts to function.

“By targeting Kelvinside Electronics we are directly responding to calls from Palestine to disrupt the supply chain of arms from Scotland to Israel." 

"It is unconscionable to profit from genocide and human suffering. Boycott Thales and Leonardo.

“Don't make Scotland a hospitable place for the business of war and colonialism."