Edinburgh: Human rights activists blocked the entrance to a factory that manufactures parts for Israeli drones in Glasgow, Scotland, while protesting against the Gaza war.
According to foreign media, protesters blocked the doors of the Thales Govan factory in Glasgow early in the morning and demanded an end to the sale of British arms to Israel, a cease-fire in Gaza, and an end to the genocide of Palestinians.
The protest was held on the 76th anniversary of the Nakba Day, when Israel was established in the 1948 war that massacred millions of Palestinians and forced more than 80 percent of the Palestinian population to emigrate from Palestine. To commemorate this massacre and migration, Palestinians celebrate Nakba Day, which means destruction, on May 15 every year.
A group of local human rights activists from Glasgow shut down the Thales plant in Govan, where spy drones are manufactured jointly with Israeli defense company Elbit Systems, in protest.
47-year-old Daniel, who participated in the demonstration, said that since October 7, the Israeli occupation forces are massacring people in the most gruesome and horrible ways in front of our eyes every day. We have seen children taking their last breaths without incubators, children carrying their dead siblings in plastic bags, men dying of lack of life-saving drugs, women of anesthesia and basic medical care. Giving birth without
He said that the Israeli government knows that no place in Gaza is safe, yet they repeatedly ask people to move. My conscience demands that I do everything I can to stop this series of killings that is starting here in my hometown.