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Palestine campaigners claim arms factory injunction win

PRO-PALESTINE protesters celebrated victory yesterday as the High Court scrapped an injunction stopping them protesting at an Israeli-owned drone factory.

Activists said they would now be able to go after Elbit Systems’s Shenstone factory in Staffordshire with “even more energy.”

War on Want’s Ryvka Barnard told the Star: “It would have been shameful for people to be criminalised for protesting against the sale of arms that are killing Palestinians.

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