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Time of India
2 days ago
- Business
- Time of India
Chaos in Belgium: Pro-Palestine activists sabotage military vehicles destined for Ukraine
Pro-Palestinian activists targeted Belgian defense companies, including OIP in Tournai, causing significant damage to military equipment intended for Ukraine. The activists, numbering around 100, broke into OIP, vandalizing property and delaying crucial deliveries. OIP's CEO stated that the company hasn't supplied Israel with weapons in over 20 years and condemned the actions as vandalism. Tired of too many ads? Remove Ads Protesters came prepared and caused damage OIP's role and reaction to the attack Tired of too many ads? Remove Ads FAQs In Tournai, a city in Belgium, some pro-Palestinian activists broke into a defense company called OIP and damaged military equipment that was supposed to go to Ukraine. They also targeted two Belgian companies — OIP in Tournai and Syensqo in Haren — because they accused these companies of helping Israel's military in Gaza, as per many protests were about Israel, the biggest damage happened in Tournai, where the equipment for Ukraine was seriously damaged. On June 23, around 100 masked activists entered the OIP company grounds. OIP is the Belgian branch of the Israeli weapons company Elbit Systems, according to the report by The New Voice Of CEO of OIP, Freddy Versluys, said the protesters came prepared with angle grinders and hammers. The group started by smashing desks and computers, then they heavily damaged several military of this damage, OIP will now delay the delivery of important equipment to Ukraine by at least one month. The financial damage is nearly 1 million euros, and the company has already filed an official complaint. Versluys also noticed that about 80% of the protesters were women, which can be clearly seen in the video by how they behaved and used the hammers, as stated by The New Voice Of Ukraine mainly works on repairing, maintaining, and upgrading military equipment. Since Russia's invasion of Ukraine, OIP has supplied around 260 armored vehicles to the Ukrainian army. The CEO said that OIP hasn't made any weapons or defense tools for Israel in more than 20 years. He also said the company isn't allowed to send any equipment to Israel. He called the protesters vandals who used the Palestinian cause as an excuse to commit June 20, a group of pro-Palestinian activists entered a Royal Air Force base in the UK. They sprayed red paint on two military planes and said they broke other equipment and made the planes stop working, according to The New Voice of broke into two Belgian defense companies and damaged military equipment, especially at OIP in in Tournai and Syensqo in Haren were the two companies attacked.
Time of India
2 days ago
- Politics
- Time of India
Why Team India will practice behind closed doors in Birmingham, details of bonding session and more
NATO Nation 'SHAMES' Tel Aviv: Mob Blocks Bridge Over Ship With Israeli Jet Parts | Netherlands Pro-Palestinian demonstrators marched through Rotterdam to protest the arrival of a Maersk cargo ship alleged to be carrying military components used in Israeli fighter jets. The torch-lit protest began at City Hall and ended at Maersk's offices, with a dramatic stop at Erasmusbrug bridge. Protesters demanded more oversight of Dutch port shipments linked to Israel amid ongoing war in Gaza. The march took place against the backdrop of escalating violence and mounting Palestinian casualties. No official statement has yet been made by Maersk or Dutch authorities.#nato #Israel #gaza #netherlands #rotterdam 404 views | 1 hour ago
Time of India
2 days ago
- Politics
- Time of India
NATO Nation 'SHAMES' Tel Aviv: Mob Blocks Bridge Over Ship With Israeli Jet Parts
Pro-Palestinian demonstrators marched through Rotterdam to protest the arrival of a Maersk cargo ship alleged to be carrying military components used in Israeli fighter jets. The torch-lit protest began at City Hall and ended at Maersk's offices, with a dramatic stop at Erasmusbrug bridge. Protesters demanded more oversight of Dutch port shipments linked to Israel amid ongoing war in Gaza. The march took place against the backdrop of escalating violence and mounting Palestinian casualties. No official statement has yet been made by Maersk or Dutch authorities.#nato #Israel #gaza #netherlands #rotterdam Read More
Int'l Business Times
6 days ago
- Politics
- Int'l Business Times
Pro-Palestinian Protest Leader Details 104 Days Spent In US Custody
Mahmoud Khalil, one of the most prominent leaders of pro-Palestinian protests on US campuses, recounted his experience surviving 104 days in Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention after being targeted for deportation by the Trump administration. "I shared a dorm with over 70 men, absolutely no privacy, lights on all the time," the 30-year-old said Sunday on the steps of Columbia University, where he was a graduate student. Khalil, a legal permanent resident in the United States who is married to an American citizen and has a US-born son, had been in custody since March facing potential removal proceedings. He was freed from a federal immigration detention center in Jena, Louisiana on Friday, hours after a judge ordered his release on bail. The activist was a figurehead of student protests at Columbia University against US ally Israel's war in Gaza, and the administration of Donald Trump labeled him a national security threat. "It's so normal in detention to see men cry," Khalil recalled, deeming the situation "horrendous" and "a stain on the US Constitution." "I spent my days listening to one tragic story after another: listening to a father of four whose wife is battling cancer, and he's in detention," Khalil detailed in his first protest appearance since regaining his freedom. "I listened to a story of an individual who has been in the United States for over 20 years, all his children are American, yet he's deported." The circumstances of the detention were tough, Khalil described, and he took solace where he could find it to gain the strength to carry on. "It is often hard to find patience in ICE detention," Khalil said. "The center is crowded with hundreds of people who are told that their existence is illegal, and not one of us knows when we can go free. "At those moments, it was remembering a specific chant that gave me strength : 'I believe that we will win,'" he continued, to cheers from the audience. Khalil said he even scratched the phrase into his detention center bunk bed as a reminder, being the last thing he saw when he went to sleep and the first thing he read waking up in the morning. He repeats it even now, "knowing that I have won in a small way by being free today." Khalil took specific aim at the site of his speech, Columbia University, chastising the institution for saying "that they want to protect their international students, while over 100 (days) later, I haven't received a single call from this university." Khalil's wife Noor Abdalla, who gave birth to their son while her husband was held by ICE, said his "voice is stronger now than it has ever been." "One day our son will know that his father did not bow to fear. He will know that his father stood up when it was hardest, and that the world stood with him," Abdalla said. Pro-Palestinian protest leader Mahmoud Khalil raises his fist as he marches to Columbia University in New York City just two days after his release from US detention AFP
Glasgow Times
6 days ago
- Politics
- Glasgow Times
Palestine Action's behaviour ‘totally unacceptable', Chancellor says
Rachel Reeves condemned Palestine Action ahead of an update from the Home Secretary to Parliament on the Government's plan to proscribe it under terror laws. A protest in support of Palestine Action is also due to take place in London on Monday. The group posted on X that the protest location has moved to Trafalgar Square after the Metropolitan Police banned action from taking place at the Houses of Parliament. Asked whether Met Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley should be able to ban Monday's demonstration, the Chancellor told broadcasters: 'What I would say about Palestine Action is that their behaviours in the last few weeks, and particularly in the last few days, are totally unacceptable. 'To cause damage to military assets, but also to cause such damage to privately owned assets, it is unacceptable whatever your views are on what's happening in the Middle East. 'These actions are unacceptable and the Home Secretary will be making a statement to Parliament later today.' A Number 10 spokesman said Palestine Action has committed 'unacceptable actions that risk our security', adding: 'We keep the list of proscribed organisations under constant review.' On Sunday, Metropolitan Police chief Sir Mark said he was 'shocked and frustrated' at the protest supporting the 'organised extremist criminal group' as the force imposed an exclusion zone around Westminster. He said that until the group is proscribed, the Met has 'no power in law' to prevent the protest taking place, adding that breaches of the law would be 'dealt with robustly'. In a statement on Sunday, Sir Mark said: 'I'm sure many people will be as shocked and frustrated as I am to see a protest taking place tomorrow in support of Palestine Action. 'This is an organised extremist criminal group, whose proscription as terrorists is being actively considered. 'Members are alleged to have caused millions of pounds of criminal damage, assaulted a police officer with a sledgehammer and last week claimed responsibility for breaking into an airbase and damaging aircraft. 'The right to protest is essential and we will always defend it but actions in support of such a group go beyond what most would see as legitimate protest.' Pro-Palestinian activists broke into RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire (Palestine Action/PA) Palestine Action posted footage online showing two people inside the base at RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire on Friday morning. The clip shows one person riding an electric scooter up to an Airbus Voyager air-to-air refuelling tanker and appearing to spray paint into its jet engine. The incident is being investigated by counter-terror police. Palestine Action has staged a series of demonstrations in recent months, including spraying the London offices of Allianz Insurance with red paint over its alleged links to Israeli defence company Elbit, and vandalising US President Donald Trump's Turnberry golf course in South Ayrshire. But Baroness Shami Chakrabarti told BBC Radio 4's Today programme on Monday that plans to ban the group would mark a very serious step. The former shadow attorney general said: 'From what I can tell, this is a militant protest group that engages in direct action and that includes criminality, no question, but to elevate that to terrorism so anybody who attends a meeting, or who promotes the organisation, or is loosely affiliated with it, is branded a terrorist – that is a serious escalation I think.' The former director of the Liberty human rights group added: 'No doubt the Home Secretary will come to Parliament today and she will explain her reasoning and announce what she is actually going to do. 'I think this is a very serious step and I would share the concerns of Amnesty International, of Liberty, my former group, and others that this may be an escalation too far.' A spokesperson for Palestine Action previously accused the UK of failing to meet its obligation to prevent or punish genocide. The spokesperson said: 'When our Government fails to uphold their moral and legal obligations, it is the responsibility of ordinary citizens to take direct action. The terrorists are the ones committing a genocide, not those who break the tools used to commit it.' The Home Secretary has the power to proscribe an organisation under the Terrorism Act of 2000 if she believes it is 'concerned in terrorism'. Proscription will require Home Secretary Yvette Cooper to lay an order in Parliament, which must then be debated and approved by both MPs and peers. Some 81 organisations have been proscribed under the 2000 Act, including Islamist terrorist groups such as Hamas and al Qaida, far-right groups such as National Action, and Russian private military company the Wagner Group. Belonging to or expressing support for a proscribed organisation, along with a number of other actions, are criminal offences carrying a maximum sentence of 14 years in prison. The Campaign Against Antisemitism welcomed the news that Ms Cooper intended to proscribe Palestine Action, saying: 'Nobody should be surprised that those who vandalised Jewish premises with impunity have now been emboldened to sabotage RAF jets.'
