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[00:00:00] Leicester is the most diverse city in the country and we saw
[00:00:04] them come out on force and ever since then ever
[00:00:08] since that action when they went on the roof in May
[00:00:11] 2021 the
[00:00:13] in locals go out they maintain the disruption they maintain the
[00:00:17] protests outside that
[00:00:19] factory so the
[00:00:23] British government um cancelled the watchkeeper drone
[00:00:27] contract which was worth two billion pounds.
[00:00:39] of of
[00:00:54] When you take action, there must be an internal
[00:00:57] coherence, like stealing
[00:00:59] of statue. like stealing a statue
[00:01:02] of the state of Israel's first prime minister or damaging
[00:01:06] picture, a cultural artifact
[00:01:08] of the British colonization of
[00:01:10] Palestine.
[00:01:17] shortly after we started we
[00:01:19] me saw escalation in police tactics
[00:01:21] of against us, it was to stop us from speaking out, it was to
[00:01:25] stop us from acting, it was to stop palestine action from growing.
[00:01:29] the way that the
[00:01:30] me Palestinian cause was pleased, the way that direct action for Palestine was
[00:01:34] pleased was a holy different level. To
[00:01:38] be grown to the floor by
[00:01:39] of police, in violently arrested, showed to
[00:01:43] me exactly what the state thought about
[00:01:46] Palestine.
[00:01:52] I think that's that was one
[00:01:53] of the main things that led me to take action, woman called Mariam
[00:01:57] Aafifi.
[00:02:04] i watched her being put in handcuffs and she was smiling at the camera and that was one one
[00:02:08] of the big um one one
[00:02:10] of the big um one
[00:02:12] of the big reasons why i felt like taking action in
[00:02:16] birmingham
[00:02:21] so we hit a factory in
[00:02:25] birmingham the company was arconic
[00:02:28] and um they're the uh
[00:02:32] there are an
[00:02:33] of aluminium uh rolling mill they they're con
[00:02:37] controversial for more than one thing,
[00:02:39] they um
[00:02:42] make uh parts for the f35
[00:02:45] firejet, but then there's also um
[00:02:49] grenfall
[00:02:52] me tower on the
[00:02:56] uh 14th of June 2017.
[00:03:00] fire spread across the building and because
[00:03:03] a of the iconic cladding it moved up
[00:03:07] down and around the building and killed
[00:03:10] 72 people whilst the actions happening
[00:03:14] um you know it's you
[00:03:18] know it's it's fundamental to
[00:03:21] of remember of who you're doing it for and who was i was
[00:03:25] remembering you know stories
[00:03:26] of um people from
[00:03:30] from every floor in the Greenfall Tower. We wanted to
[00:03:34] show solidarity through actions, not just another
[00:03:38] statement, but by targeting the company which was both
[00:03:41] in responsible for the murder of people in Grenville
[00:03:45] and in Palestine. The same
[00:03:48] company which disregarded human lives in Britain are the same
[00:03:52] ones who supplied the materials for Israel's F35
[00:03:56] fighter jets used to massacre people in.
[00:04:00] Palestine, in Lebanon and across the Middle
[00:04:06] of East.
[00:04:17] of So the arms trade connects Britain to the ongoing
[00:04:20] genocide in multiple ways. Uh, first of all, Britain is a part
[00:04:24] of the F-35 program, which uh, which is the NATO program,
[00:04:28] supplying war planes to... now over 15% of
[00:04:32] every single F30 fighter jet is produced in
[00:04:35] Britain with components made by
[00:04:38] of
[00:04:38] of UK based arms
[00:04:39] factories
[00:04:50] number of its international obligations
[00:04:53] when it is when it's exporting weapons to Israel
[00:04:57] uh including the duty to prevent genocide. the duty to
[00:05:00] cooperate towards ending the uh Israeli occupation of
[00:05:04] Palestine, the duty to protect the Palestinian people, so the directors
[00:05:08] of arms factories across Britain that have
[00:05:11] of been targeted by. palestine action have often tried to
[00:05:15] distance themselves from kind of responsibility. now what we
[00:05:19] managed to find at
[00:05:20] the now what we managed to find at declassified based on
[00:05:24] um hundreds if not thousands of cargo documents that we obtained is
[00:05:28] that there are various factories across the UK and many of
[00:05:32] which are either elbit or subsidiaries of elbit that they have been
[00:05:36] exporting to Israel amid the Gaza
[00:05:39] genocide so what we've managed to do basically is to prove. in real
[00:05:43] time which arms factories in the UK have been
[00:05:47] exporting to Israel and despite repeated
[00:05:50] denials on the part the directors the arms factories. is
[00:05:54] that on? so this we
[00:05:57] understand this to be the
[00:06:01] roof that gives us access to the clean room where
[00:06:05] they make for the for
[00:06:08] the f35 clean u
[00:06:12] five fighter jets, so we believe that if we
[00:06:16] can contaminate this room that we
[00:06:20] can put this
[00:06:23] factory out of action for up
[00:06:27] to 12 months, it's
[00:06:29] fine, whoa,
[00:06:33] jesus, oh my word, there
[00:06:37] we go, is it too much, as we saw
[00:06:41] the genocidal campaign. escalate, so our actions needed to
[00:06:45] match that in terms of severity, people started to break
[00:06:48] inside factories regularly,
[00:06:52] you talad
[00:06:53] alarms,
[00:06:58] more people were coming forward and saying I'm gonna do it, and they were literally
[00:07:02] getting inside these factories and causing millions of pounds
[00:07:06] worth of damage, clean room
[00:07:09] two, clean.
[00:07:22] Security, security, stay
[00:07:26] together, stay together, stay
[00:07:27] together.
[00:07:57] Ready, yeah, one, two, two,
[00:08:00] three,
[00:08:02] three, can give a
[00:08:05] hand, come
[00:08:08] on.
[00:08:15] Let's
[00:08:15] go!
[00:08:52] Thank
[00:08:53] you, free
[00:08:57] power
[00:09:06] sign, let's see what we
[00:09:09] have.
[00:09:14] someone finally got the alarm
[00:09:15] off,
[00:09:24] police are
[00:09:25] here,
[00:09:29] have you glued the
[00:09:30] doors?
[00:09:39] this is what happens when you work with elves.
[00:10:26] Yeah, gives us time to fuck about in which case, check there's
[00:10:30] no other entrances. He's
[00:10:34] full, okay, nice, nice.
[00:10:38] Okay,
[00:10:43] yeah, yeah, yeah, got it, got it,
[00:10:44] got it,
[00:10:48] okay, yeah, good, good, good, good, let's go for drives, smash up drives, you guys smash up
[00:10:52] drives, I'm going to bandage my hands.
[00:11:04] Wow,
[00:11:05] it looks beautiful out there. It's actually a really nice
[00:11:07] morning.
[00:11:16] Yeah, we're just trying it
[00:11:17] open.
[00:11:22] Yes, amazing. Let's see,
[00:11:26] Leonard.
[00:11:33] Fab, go,
[00:11:34] go.
[00:12:12] Criminal damage to prevent a war crime is not a crime, when you put that
[00:12:16] before most juries in this country, they will see that for what it
[00:12:19] is, that these are people doing what they can within their means to
[00:12:23] try and prevent even. the great to
[00:12:25] hunt,
[00:12:54] we were allowed. Judge to talk about Palestine and to talk about and to
[00:12:57] put in front the jury how drones are used to share export
[00:13:01] licenses from UAV tactical systems to
[00:13:03] Israel and it means that
[00:13:07] you get fair trial when juries get to hear the whole
[00:13:11] truth like that they generally
[00:13:13] speaking find people in palestine action not
[00:13:17] guilty
[00:13:24] lated in we saw the latest in Gaza we saw the
[00:13:28] increase in state pressure against Palestine
[00:13:30] action. Actionists were being raided every
[00:13:34] week of different homes were being searched across the country by the
[00:13:38] police. We knew at the start a palestine
[00:13:41] action. The state would do everything possible to try and stop
[00:13:45] us before we drove Israel's weapons trade out of
[00:13:49] Britain and we weren't going to let them
[00:13:51] win.
[00:13:56] Through freedom of information requests we've been able
[00:14:00] to establish as fact that there has been
[00:14:04] fact that there has been
[00:14:06] constant between Israel, Albert
[00:14:09] Systems, the British government, you then have the
[00:14:13] case of 2022, pretty
[00:14:16] 2022, pretty petel at that time
[00:14:20] meeting with the director of Elbit, Martin Fosset
[00:14:24] and talking about.
[00:14:25] In that meeting, Pretty Patel told him, we
[00:14:29] cannot directly intervene in the judicial process,
[00:14:33] but we have been in contact with the police about this. Within
[00:14:37] a month of that meeting was the first conviction
[00:14:41] of a palestine action activist. Next meeting that took
[00:14:44] place um between a British
[00:14:48] government minister and Elbit systems
[00:14:52] also included somebody represent. in the Crown
[00:14:55] Prosecution Service. Now, this is very likely
[00:14:59] to be violation of 2.1
[00:15:03] the Crown Prosecutions code of conduct,
[00:15:07] which says that they must behave an independent
[00:15:11] and impartial way, without political
[00:15:14] pressure. The fact that arms companies
[00:15:17] can and are able to go to the
[00:15:21] government and to lobby them directly to say,
[00:15:25] impose harsher sentences on activists is in itself
[00:15:28] very telling of where we
[00:15:30] are.
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[00:15:46] navigation, flight, scanning, mapping enemy detection and
[00:15:50] litality a complex urban
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[00:15:56] technologies that allows navigation to building, scanning the
[00:15:59] building to identify openings, scanning and mapping, object
[00:16:03] avoidance, enemy detection and classification.
[00:16:10] Lanius search and attack in
[00:16:12] one
[00:16:17] living in Gaza means you are forced to hear this sound every
[00:16:21] day, almost every hour, day
[00:16:24] and
[00:16:31] ما بدك تحس حالك بدك تنام بتحسها فوق راسك
[00:16:35] زن زن زن زن.
[00:16:40] 'I could tell you for sure that I haven't talked to anyone in Ghazza or heard
[00:16:44] any recording in Ghazza in the past year where I didn't
[00:16:48] consistently hear the voice of a drone at whatsoever
[00:16:51] uh any moment. The IDF has been
[00:16:55] systematically using drones in its campaign in Gaza
[00:16:58] the past 16 months um these drones have been used to bomb
[00:17:02] civilians. Israel and Israeli corporations are now marketing that
[00:17:06] as very'. effective uh, very effective ways of
[00:17:10] killing, they're emitting sounds such as of women or babies crying
[00:17:14] a kind of perverse attempt to lore Palestinians out their homes to tend
[00:17:18] to um the the person who's crying and then
[00:17:22] using them to bomb them
[00:17:23] afterwards.
[00:17:40] so first of all we've had testimonies from uh doctors who were in the
[00:17:43] grounds who described direct bullets
[00:17:47] coming to children through these quadcopters, we've also heard
[00:17:51] accounts of pregnant women who were targeted by quadcopters
[00:17:55] and also targeting of journalists, so Israel is
[00:17:59] kind of at the cutting edge as well of drone technology
[00:18:03] um by way of its experience of testing these different forms of
[00:18:06] drones. um a captive population in
[00:18:10] Palestine.
[00:18:37] particularly disturbing was one would drop maybe on
[00:18:41] crowded tented area and then the drones
[00:18:45] would come down
[00:18:46] and
[00:18:50] you set your time it's we're incredibly grateful that you're making
[00:18:54] the time to be here of civilians
[00:18:57] of civilians
[00:19:00] children and we had description
[00:19:03] after description this is not
[00:19:05] you know an occasional thing this was day. after day after day
[00:19:08] operating on children who would say I was lying on the ground
[00:19:12] after bomber dropped and this quadcopter came down
[00:19:16] and hovered over me and
[00:19:18] shot
[00:19:23] me.
[00:20:59] with an unprecedented operation, they are alleged to have
[00:21:03] caused over million pounds worth of damage to that
[00:21:07] facility. i think it's important for us to
[00:21:09] understand that when we're
[00:21:13] told Filton is a research center, it's
[00:21:17] absolutely not that. it homes. It
[00:21:20] hosts killing machines. This is
[00:21:24] machinery that is created on UK soil with UK
[00:21:28] state complicity and investment that is
[00:21:32] targeting and killing innocent children
[00:21:35] and civilians on mass a daily
[00:21:39] basis.
[00:21:50] Fatima Zainab was arrested on the 6th of August, that's
[00:21:54] one day after she turned
[00:21:55] 20.
[00:22:05] Fatma Zainab has always been an advocate for social justice, I would say
[00:22:08] that's one of her most defining character, and
[00:22:12] when the when the genocide started in October
[00:22:15] 2023, it had a massive impact on
[00:22:19] her um. would be going on every single march as
[00:22:22] family, all the national marches, emergency protests
[00:22:26] and rallies, we would be, I think there came point, I
[00:22:30] think there came point where Fatma Zenab was getting really
[00:22:34] distressed and very helpless that you know we're marching week
[00:22:38] in, week out, the government's not listening, our voices are being
[00:22:41] unheard, um, and
[00:22:45] I feel this is the point where she felt that she needed to...
[00:22:50] to take action herself, do something more than just marching week
[00:22:54] in, week out, and it's an incredibly difficult time, because we're not only
[00:22:58] having to deal with the grief of um, witnessing a
[00:23:01] real-time genocide take place every single day, but top
[00:23:05] of that we're having to deal with the absence of our loved ones,
[00:23:09] because they have tried to do something to stop
[00:23:13] that, we're all proud of her, you know, we're all proud of being where she
[00:23:17] is for for why she is. in prison you know
[00:23:21] and and even
[00:23:23] you know when i visit her tell her you need to hold your head up high because
[00:23:27] you you know you're not going to allow anyone to criminalize you because you haven't done
[00:23:31] anything that you need to be ashamed
[00:23:33] of.
[00:23:50] 'now the police response to this action has been quite
[00:23:54] extraordinary. they've used counter-terror legislation to detain
[00:23:58] and remand - many of those activists in
[00:24:01] prison and to the extent that they were moved from one site to another
[00:24:05] site without anybody who knows them being made aware that they'd been moved. they were
[00:24:09] effectively rendered incommunicado from the rest the world. you have
[00:24:12] seen people detained on
[00:24:16] remand for a long time, but initially under counter terrorism legislation.
[00:24:20] which meant there were numerous ways in which
[00:24:24] they could have more
[00:24:26] harsh um treatment justified
[00:24:30] supposedly a cell all day with the lights
[00:24:34] on all night with the lights on regular
[00:24:36] disruption um and with fatima zainab I couldn't see her until
[00:24:40] three weeks into her arrest the the government has
[00:24:44] abused the the use of counter terror
[00:24:47] powers to arrest the the bilton
[00:24:51] group to interrogate them day and
[00:24:53] night, and then because the the
[00:24:57] terror connection that they're now labeled with, the the
[00:25:01] consequences in prison on remand have
[00:25:04] been horrific for all them. it is safe
[00:25:08] to say that the worst legal framework to use in such case is the terrorism
[00:25:12] framework. the terrorism discourse has been heavily
[00:25:15] critiqued by uh justice theorist, by human rights
[00:25:19] lawyers, uh by being a way to evade uh the
[00:25:23] rule of law and creating an otherwise called exceptionalist
[00:25:27] space outside the law into whatever uh
[00:25:30] annoys the uh
[00:25:31] government.
[00:25:41] the state realized that imprisoning people had failed to stop
[00:25:45] the movement. they realized that rating people's homes has failed to stop the
[00:25:49] movement. This was the first time we had seen the
[00:25:53] state try and say that these actions could amount to
[00:25:56] terrorism. Despite being arrested under the terrorism
[00:26:00] act, none them were charged. with terrorism
[00:26:03] offenses, but the counter terrorism police continue
[00:26:07] to lead on this investigation.
[00:26:11] the police have sought escalate the
[00:26:14] repression and use counter-terrorism legislation
[00:26:18] to try and suppress Palestine action, but what we've
[00:26:21] seen is that people wanting to join and
[00:26:25] get involved has risen as
[00:26:29] the repression has risen.
[00:27:21] they calling a terrorist like they don't who the
[00:27:25] terrorist when they put it on me tell them this
[00:27:29] i'm all about peace and love peace and love. They're calling
[00:27:33] a terrorist like they don't know who the terror
[00:27:36] is insulting my
[00:27:38] intelligence.
[00:29:18] Hello and welcome to unscripted with me kabi. In this edition the program, we
[00:29:22] have the pleasure of having
[00:29:23] with us major general Mohsen Rizai. Thank you for having
[00:29:27] me. Now Dr. Mohsen Razi is secretary of Iran's Supreme
[00:29:31] National Security Council.