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MORE than 1,000 Palestine supporters marched on an Israel-owned arms factory in Newcastle yesterday as demands for a ceasefire in Gaza continued at demonstrations and marches across Britain.
Protesters were met with a heavy police presence as an estimated 1,200 people marched to Pearson Engineering’s site in Newcastle’s West End.
The factory’s products include “robotic combat vehicles” which are exported to Israel. The company boasts that the vehicles “take humans away from dull, dangerous and dirty tasks.”
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