ACTIVISTS targeted an arms factory in Brighton which makes parts for fighter jets used by the Israeli military on Thursday.

The protesters sprayed the L3Harris factory with fake red blood and scrawled “L3Harris kills kids” near the entrance.

The firm continues to make bomb release mechanisms for F-35 fighter jets, which were excluded from the government’s embargo on 30 arms licences to Israel last month.

The jets have been used to drop 2,000lb bombs on Gaza and now in Israel’s attacks on Lebanon. 

Locals have been campaigning for the factory’s landlord Paxton Access to evict the firm from the premises. 

The community-wide campaign, spearheaded by StopL3Harris, has also called on the local council as freeholders of the land to shut it down.

In June, the council rejected the firm’s application for an extension for an outbuilding and cited public unrest and distress as a reason for its decision under the Equalities Act 2010.

Hermione Berendt from the StopL3Harris campaign said: “[Prime Minister Sir] Keir Starmer, backed by local MP Peter Kyle, says we stand with Israel, but who is this ‘we’ that he is talking about?

“The people of Brighton and Hove condemn Israel’s indiscriminate assault on Palestinians. 

“We want to see a full arms embargo on Israel, an end to the bloodshed and the L3Harris arms factory out of our city immediately.”

Another of the campaign’s supporters, Stevie Marjorie, said: "The arms trade and L3Harris bring shame to our city. 

“I don’t want them to get away with operating in silence and in secrecy. 

“I want everyone to know when they look at that road that that’s where the dirty bomb factory is and remind everyone that drives up the road every day that L3Harris has blood on their hands.”