Pro-Palestine campaigners across the United Kingdom are preparing to stage coordinated protests outside arms manufacturing sites, in an effort to intensify public pressure on the government to halt its support for Israel through the production and sale of military equipment . The Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) has announced a series of demonstrations set to take place on Wednesday in five cities, including two locations in London.
The protests will target factories that the campaign says are involved in producing "weapons, components and military technology used by Israel", such as missiles, armoured drones and parts for fighter jets.
In Hayes in west London, demonstrators are expected to gather outside facilities operated by Attewell, which produces components used in Israel’s F-35 fighter jets, and CPI TMD Technologies, a company that has reportedly held four licences to export military goods to Israel since 2021.
Further protests are planned in Bristol, Newcastle, Shenstone and Towcester. These actions will focus on companies including Elbit Systems UK , Pearson Engineering, which is owned by Israel’s state-owned weapons manufacturer Rafael Advanced Defense Systems, as well as UAV Engines and BAE Systems.
The PSC, the largest pro-Palestine organisation in the UK, says the demonstrations are intended to challenge what it describes as Britain’s "active participation" in Israel’s continued attacks on Palestinians. It argues that arms exports and military cooperation are central to that role.
The protests form part of a broader wave of pro-Palestine mobilisation in the UK since the start of the war on Gaza began in October 2023.
Activists and anti-war groups have regularly organised demonstrations calling for an arms embargo, including direct actions that have blocked entrances to arms factories and military bases across the country.
The issue has become a contentious for Prime Minister Keir Starmer, whose Labour party faces mounting domestic criticism over the government’s role in facilitating arms exports to Israel and its wider crackdown on pro-Palestine activism.
Groups such as Palestine Action have faced increasing legal pressure since October 2023, which was proscribed as a terrorist organisation by the UK government in July 2025.
In September last year, Elbit Systems UK closed its Bristol site following repeated actions by activists from Palestine Action , who had targeted the facility multiple times. Prominent organisers have also been charged over demonstrations , with the PSC's director Ben Jamal charged in connection with a march held in London on 18 January last year. He faces charges of failing to comply with public assembly conditions and of inciting others to breach those restrictions.
Opponents argue that British-made components and technologies are being used in Israel’s ongoing genocidal war in Gaza that has killed more than 72,250 people, most of whom were women and children.