Our prisoners are at a critical point in their hunger strike. They are in the danger zone, where irreparable harm is likely, and their health becomes critical. Each of them are accused of destroying the tools and weapons used to massacre the Palestinian people. For acting to stop a genocide, the state has locked them away for up to two years before they’re even afforded their right to a trial.
Contents
- Why direct action?
- 1 – Find your group
- 2 – Pick a target
- 3 – Plan action
- 4 – Take action
- 5 – Report
- Appendices
Why direct action?
Protest is like begging the powers that be to dig a well.
Direct action is digging the well and daring them to stop you.
- Late David Graeber
The hunger strikers knew from when they started their strike on 2nd Nov that the British state would not out of good conscious act to save their lives, just as they enabled a live streamed genocide over the last two years. They knew that it is only direct action that forces change.
Our prisoners are calling us to action against enablers of genocide. In these critical days, it is not only Elbit Systems that is the target of our campaign, but the British state itself. Pick up a hammer, crowbar, lock-on or bucket of paint and take direct action now. Here is how:
1. Find your group
Invite a few trusted people to take action with you. This could be just you and a couple friends. You can take action as just yourself too.
Get an anonymous ProtonMail address to send in your hit report.
2. Pick a target
Elbit Systems and its supporters are all targets. This includes legs of the British state.
We know through history that the direct action that works is focused and sustained. This means we need to pick a small number of institutions and focus our action on them.
Britain
If you are based in Britain these are your targets.
Serco
In September, Serco announced a business partnership with Elbit Systems. To Serco, years of Elbit fuelled genocide is an opportunity for profit and nothing more. It is our duty to undermine those profits with direct action.
Serco profits from our comrades unlawful imprisonment. Serco owns private prisons, and may privatised parts of public prisons. Our comrades inside face direct repression from Serco, who “run” the prisons they are held captive in.
Addresses
📍 Serco House, 16 Bartley Wood Business Park, Bartley Way, Hook, Hampshire, RG27 9UY
📍 4th Floor, 100 Victoria Street, London, Greater London, SW1E 5JL
📍 HMP Doncaster: Marsh Gate Drive, Doncaster, South Yorkshire, DN5 8UX
📍 HMP/YOI Low Newton: Brasside, Durham, DH1 5YA
📍 HMP Ryehill: Willenhall, Coventry, CV7 7RL
📍 HMP New Hall: Flockton, Wakefield, WF4 4XX
📍 HMP Kilmarnock: Bowhouse Drive, Kilmarnock, KA1 5AA
As well as these offices, all vans and public presence of Serco in our communities should be targeted. If a Serco van enters your community, it is your responsibility to immobilise it. You will find them at police stations, court rooms, and home office buildings. You will do well to ask around in your town or city, work our where Serco operates and pick the easiest target.
Be strategic. Avoid targeting healthcare providers, avoid vans with prisoners already in.
If you discover more Serco targets, send them in to prisoners4palestine@proton.me.
Sodexo
Sodexo run prison HMP Bronzefield which is refusing medical treatment for Qesser Zuhrah, the longest running hunger striker.
Sodexo are a private prison operator in Britain. Their profits rely on the captivity of several thousand people across Britain, including our prisoners. We can undermine their blood soaked profits, and make the cost of our prisoners a business nightmare.
Addresses
📍Sodexo Salford, 310 Broadway, Salford M50 2UE
📍Sodexo Stevenage, Solar House, Kings Way (Train station), Stevenage SG1 2UA
📍Sodexo Education Services, Trigate, 210-222 Hagley Riad W., Oldbury, Birmingham, B68 0NP
📍Sodexo Energy and Resources, The Exchange No 2, 62 Market Street, Aberdeen, AB11 5PJ
📍Sodexo Scotland, Buchanan Tower, Buchanan Business Park, Stepps, Glasgow, G33 6HZ
📍Sodexo Ireland Limited, One Grand Parade, Dublin 6, D06 R9X8
Ministry of (in) Justice
The demands of our hunger strikers can be met by the Ministry of Justice. Yet, they refused to meet and barely acknowledge the strike. It is our responsibility to make that a costly choice for them. Get creative with your actions, and target one of their offices.
Addresses
📍Ministry of Justice, 102 Petty France, London SW1H 9AJ
📍Ministry of Justice, 5 Wellington Place, Leeds, LS1 4AP
📍Ministry of Justice, 32 Scotland Street, Sheffield, S3 7DQ
Elbit Systems
Elbit Systems UK is part of the multinational arms company, Elbit Systems Ltd, headquartered in Haifa, Israel. From Britain, Elbit manufactures Israeli weaponry which is used to subjugate the Palestinian people.
Elbit Systems is Israel’s largest weapons manufacturer, profiting from and enabling the Zionist’s military regime, occupation, apartheid and genocide of Palestine. Elbit supplies the Israeli military with 85% of their drones and land-based equipment, as well as electronic warfare systems, munitions and more. The company’s surveillance equipment is prevalent across Palestine and is used against the Palestinians through drone operations, at checkpoints and across Israel’s apartheid wall.
Throughout the 2023-2025 genocide in Gaza, the Israeli military frequently used Elbit’s quadcopter drones to massacre the population. Acclaimed British surgeon, Dr Nizam Mamode, recalled how these drones are used in Gaza: “This is not an occasional thing; this was day after day after day, operating on children who would say I was lying on the ground after a bomb had dropped, and this quadcopter came down, hovered over me and shot me.”
Many of our prisoners were allegedly involved in an action that destroyed these quad-copter drones in Elbit’s Filton site near Bristol. It is time for us to finish the work they courageously started.
Addresses
📍UAV Tactical Systems, Unit F, Meridian East, Meridian Business Part, Braunstone Town, Leicester, LE19 1WZ
📍UAV Engines, Lynn Lane Shenstone Litchfield Staffs WS14 0DT
📍Instro Precision, Sentinel House, Artillery Way, Discovery Park, Sandwich, Kent, CT13 9FL
📍Elbit Filton Site, Belvedere Cl, Filton, Bristol BS34 6FE
International
If you are outside of Britain, search for your British Embassy if it is nearby. Plan a destructive action.
You are going to have to do a bit of research. Search for “British Embassy” or “British Consulate” on Tor Browser.
3. Plan action
EASY: Things you can do tonight
Glue their locks
- Buy some superglue in cash
- Find your target’s locks
- Empty the whole tube into their locks
- Get away sharpish
Let their tyres down
- Locate the vehicles. Serco and Sodexo vans are the priority.
- Unscrew the cap on the tire valve. This is usually very easy to find on the wheel. Usually, you turn the cap to the left to unscrew it, right to tighten it. Remember: righty-tighty, lefty-loosey.
- To get the air out of the tyre, there must be something pushing down on the pin located in the center of the valve. Drop a small bean (we like green lentils, but you can experiment with mung beans, bits of gravel, etc) inside the valve cap. Replace the cap, screwing it on with a few turns until you hear air hissing out. Even if it’s only hissing out a little bit, that’s enough – it will deflate slowly. The whole process should take about 10 seconds.
- Repeat, repeat, repeat
Other tips:
- Wear gloves!
- If you like, practice on a bicycle tyre first.
- Work under cover of darkness.
- Split into pairs to avoid conspicuously large groups.
MEDIUM: Takes a little bit of planning
This is good for targeting your local MoJ office.
Paint throwing
- Buy red emulsion paint
- Dilute 60/40 with paint/water
- Carry to target in a bucket in a shopping bag
- Throw over target
- Get out sharpish
HARD: More time and support needed
Some direct action strategies need training and support to make happen. Sign up with direct action training to get training: directactiontraining.org
You will be trained in more advanced direct action strategies.
4. Take Action
Adrenaline and nerves will be pumping through you at the same time. This is normal. Make sure you run through your plans right before taking action another time, to make sure everyone is on the same page. Then go for it.
Good luck.
5. Reporting
It is important the world knows you have taken action. Send in your hit report, ideally with images or photos, to prisoners4palestine@proton.me from your ProtonMail address ONLY.
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Appendix – Security
We could write a whole manual on this, and there are plenty out of there, so here are some key things to think about when it comes to digital security when planning actions.
Need to know
This is the most import, and bigger than any of the tech tweaks or other practices. People who are not going to be part of your action don’t need to know about it. That means you don’t brag about it after a few pints, you don’t tell your whole street or shout it proudly at your work.
This might sound silly, but it can be easy to get chatting to anyone about this stuff, and it can make some of the other points below useless.
Your devices
Our devices are a major vulnerability from outside actors like the police or big corporations. Core features of most phones include a huge amount of data gathering for large companies like Meta to target adverts at us and bring terrifyingly accurate images of our social circle.
Your phone and laptop can be used as listening devices, and have been, when you use platforms and software that make that easy or built in.
If you can, plan your action without needing to use your devices. This is very hard in the modern world, so take these steps to keep your friends much safer.
- Use Signal for communication
- Signal is end to end encrypted messaging apps. This means that when you send someone a message over either platform, from the moment it leaves your devices to the moment it arrives at the other person’s device the message cannot be read.
- However, if someone were to get your phone they could well read all the messages you have sent and received. So you need to take a few steps to reduce this risk
- Turn on “disappearing messages” on your chats
- If you have an Android phone, use the app “Molly” in place of Signal with a password to protect your messages on your phone. This means they are encrypted “at rest” as well as when they are being sent.
- Keep key details (like crypt pad links) out of signal chat descriptions
- Delete signal from your phone if you think you are at risk for someone snooping on your phone
- Keep to the first principle of need to know, no point using signal if you message a chat with 999 people in!
- Use a VPN, or virtual private network, to connect to the internet
- Either buy MullvadVPN (recommended) or use ProtonVPN for free.
- A VPN protects the information you are looking at on the internet from your internet service provider (ISP), so TalkTalk or PlusNet or O2 or whatever your wifi or mobile data is bought through
- A VPN also replaces your IP address so you can change your apparent location
- Use CryptPad for shared documents
- CryptPad is the standard tool for easy encrypted document sharing and editing. You can create a free account on cryptpad.fr
- Avoid sharing the link to too many groups
- Email – use protonmail
- Like Signal, Protonmail is end to end encrypted (and it is encrypted while on the server).
- Only the body of the email is encrypted.
- In the unlikely event the Swiss courts get a request for info associated with you email, all they can send is the IP address you log in from. So make sure you use a VPN and be careful.
Appendix – Recces
First off, for some action types you don’t need to do much of a recce. If you see a Serco van, have a go letting its tires down. It takes 10 seconds, no need to think about it too much
Don’t be obvious as fuck
If you are in town, you can go about in daylight taking photos and no one will be any the wise. Use a different strategy for rural targets. Walking a dog is wise, no one really asks questions.
First – check Google Maps
Use Tor Browser with Google Maps to check out your target. You can use street view to walk through the streets outside. This should guide what questions you need to ask for an in person recce, but it doesn’t replace an in person one. Something might have changed since the photos were taken (e.g. the place is closed, or covered in scaffolding.
Some example questions
- Places to park
- Before, after and during
- It’s important to find out a car parking space which isn’t monitoredby CCTV or needs a parking ticket .Of course you might have got your hands on fake plates, but even still it’s good to keep the vehicle undetected.
- Make sure it is also easy to access from where your action will be.
- Security
- How many? Are they stationary or moving around?
- If there is security present, think about how you could potentially avoid them.
- If that’s not possible, consider how you could still do your action.
- Inside or outside?
- Where are they looking out onto? Which street?
- Times of shift change- its often better not to catch them at shift changes as there will be more staff around. Do security remain inside the compound or seek to cover entry points outside the facility?
- CCTV
- Location? How many? What is it pointing at/filming?
- It may be impossible to avoid doing your action whilst avoiding CCTV, that’s why it is crucial to make sure you are unidentifiable as mentioned before
- What is surrounding the target site
- Do they have neighbours/neighbouring buildings?
- Do the neighbouring buildings have security?
- Estimated time of arrival for police
- How far away is the local police stations?
- Police patrols
- Do they patrol area? During specific times?
- Unmarked police cars in the area? Foot patrols?
- Fences?
- How many? Where? What type of fences?
- How high a ladder would be needed to get over fences?
- Barbed wire?
- How much? Where?
- Access points to building (fire escapes etc)
- Alarms
- Do you know what sets off the alarm?
- Whatever sets off the alarm should be done last.