BREAKING: Coordinated blockades at major weapons manufacturers to demand arms embargo on Israel

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Toronto, Peterborough, Ontario, Feb. 26, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Two major arms manufacturers are being disrupted this morning, kicking off rolling actions to interrupt the flow of weapons to Israel. Communities are taking action to demand an end to military exports to Israel, exactly one month after the International Court of Justice found a plausible case that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza and just days after UN experts called for an immediate arms embargo.

In Toronto, over one hundred trade union members and allies have formed picket lines and blocked the morning shift from entering the Scarborough manufacturing plant of TTM Technologies. This TTM Technologies plant has produced circuit boards for export to Elbit Systems, one of Israel’s largest military companies, for use in F-15 and F-16 fighter jets that Israel has deployed over the past four and a half months to carry out its deadly assault on Gaza, as well as the power distribution system of Elbit’s Lizard guidance kits which convert general purpose bombs to precision strike munitions.

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In Peterborough, dozens of activists are picketing a Safran Electronics facility. Safran Group has an agreement with the Israeli government to provide it with telemetry equipment that will serve in the testing of its anti-missile system, as well as an agreement with Israeli weapons manufacturer Rafael Advanced Defense Systems to make battlefield targeting technology.
TORONTO: Rachel Small, rachel@worldbeyondwar.org, 647-769-2472

PETERBOROUGH: Urpi Pine, 705-977-2929; Kerry Bebee, 705-772-9340; Hanah Mcfarlane, 705-933-8211
“After months of misleading Canadians about whether Canada is exporting weapons to Israel, documents recently released revealed that our government has authorized almost $30 million of new permits for military exports to Israel since the beginning of this assault on Gaza in October. Exporting weapons to a state that has been found to at risk of committing…