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Welsh peace activists block BAE systems factory over its ‘complicity’ in Gaza massacre
Cymru Peace Coalition activists blocade the entrance to a BAE Systems’s factory in Glascoed, near Pontypool

DOZENS of Welsh peace activists shut down one of Britain’s largest arms factories today.

Wales Peace Coalition campaigners held banners saying “stop arming genocide” and “UK weapons kill” as they blockaded BAE Systems’s factory in Glascoed, near Pontypool.

They said they wanted to highlight the company’s “complicity in the … unfolding genocide” against Palestinians by Israel, “including the suspected white phosphorous rounds” for the state.

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