WATCH: Palestine Action among three groups to be proscribed as members could face up to 14 YEARS in prison
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The group targeted sites in Suffolk and Bristol
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Palestine Action has engaged in another protest, targeting facilities in Suffolk and Bristol.
The group occupied the Guardtech Group’s facility in Haverhill as well as the Elbit Systems subsidiary Aztec West.
Activists blockaded the Bristol site's only entrance, dousing in in red paint to symbolise "Palestinian bloodshed."
It comes as the group is seeking a legal challenge against the Government’s bid to proscribe the group under anti-terror laws.
Palestine Action taking part in a protest this morning
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A Palestine Action spokesman said: "While the government is rushing through Parliament absurd legislation to proscribe Palestine Action, the real terrorism is being committed in Gaza.
"These daily atrocities are ones in which Elbit Systems is an active participant, as are those like Guardtech whom facilitate Elbit's business of genocide.
"Palestine Action affirms that direct action is necessary in the face of Israel’s ongoing crimes against humanity of genocide, apartheid, and occupation, and to end British facilitation of those crimes."
An Avon and Somerset Police spokesman said: "Officers are responding to a protest involving two people at a premises at the Aztec West Business Park, in Almondsbury.
"We were called to the site at around 6.30am this morning (Tuesday July 1). We're committed to facilitating people's right to peaceful protest, but will not tolerate any criminal behaviour."
GB News has approached Suffolk Police for a comment.
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One of the protesters igniting a flare at the Bristol site
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A draft order was laid before Parliament on Monday to amend the Terrorism Act 2000 to include PalestineAction as a proscribed organisation, making membership and support for the direct action group illegal.
If approved, it would become a criminal offence punishable by up to 14 years in prison.
An urgent hearing was held in the High Court on Monday related to an application for judicial review on behalf of one of the founders of the group, Huda Ammori.
A further hearing will be held on Friday to decide whether the Government can temporarily be blocked from banning the group, pending a hearing to decide whether Palestine Action can bring the legal challenge.
Ammori told reporters that causing disruption "is not terrorism" while Home Secretary Yvette Cooper has said proscribing the group is a “legitimate response to the threat posed” by Palestine Action.
The Home Secretary has the power to proscribe an organisation under the Terrorism Act of 2000 if she believes it is "concerned in terrorism".
Some 81 organisations have been proscribed under the 2000 Act, including Islamist terrorist groups such as Hamas and al-Qaida, far-right groups such as National Action, and Russian private military company the Wagner Group.
The draft order laid on Monday also lists neo-Nazi group Maniacs Murder Cult and far-right nationalist group Russian Imperial Movement, including its paramilitary arm Russian Imperial Legion, to be proscribed in the UK.