PALESTINE activists smashed the front doors of Siemens’ office in Cambridge today, in a protest against its complicity in the ongoing genocide in Gaza.

The protesters from This Is Not A Drill shattered the glass front to Kett House, where the mobile phone company’s offices are located, in the early hours of the morning.

The activist group said it targeted the building because of Siemens’ role in “continuing to support one of the most horrific genocides the world has ever seen by providing technological infrastructure to the Israeli occupation of Palestine.”

“We chose to hit them because they are on the official BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions) list,” it said.

The BDS Movement website states Siemens is “complicit in apartheid Israel’s illegal settlement enterprise” through its planned construction of the EuroAsia Interconnector.

“This will link Israel’s electricity grid with Europe’s, allowing illegal settlements on stolen Palestinian land to benefit from Israel-EU trade of electricity produced from fossil gas,” it says.

One of the activists involved in today’s action said: “Over the past couple of days we have seen some of the most horrific videos of the last year of the attacks on the Gaza Strip and 76 years of occupation in Palestine, with people being burnt alive in a hospital, including a teenager called Shaban al-Dalou.

“As Israel escalates its ethnic cleansing of the region, expanding from Palestine to Lebanon, we must also escalate in our resistance to it.”

A Siemens spokesperson said: “We are deeply concerned about the humanitarian devastation for civilians in the region and we support any action to avoid further escalation.

“In the strongest possible terms, we fundamentally reject any violence against innocent people and civilians.”