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Fortress Carmel Agrexco breached by Peace Activists

DM | 15.07.2007 13:20 | Palestine | Terror War

Sunday the 15th of July, ten activists entered Carmel Agrexco depot in Hayes Middlesex. The Israeli flag that usually flies was replaced with a Palestinian flag and the black flag of anarchy took the place of the Union Jack.

Carmel Agrexco import illegal produce from Israeli settlements in the West Bank.

These settlements, exist in serious breach of international law, are guarded by the Israeli army using numerous check points and the Apartheid wall, as a result of land theft from the Arab population in breach of international peace agreements

Additions

Update and press release

15.07.2007 16:05

Activists invade Agrexco Carmel:

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/07/376040.html

Agrexco Carmel, you are the weakest link

photos from the lock-on

15.07.2007 21:34

locked on

the lorry cab arrives

...and reverses towards a protester, missing his legs by only inches

Carmel Agrexco UK general manager, Amos Orr, taking it personally

At around 1415 the police left the yard at the rear of the warehouse after telling the people locked to lorry trailer that the company intended to attach a lorry cab and tow it out of the premises with the protesters attached, they explained that they had no duty of care to people who they believed to be trespassers. Although Carmel workers did hook-up the trailer to a cab they never followed through on their threat to move it, and eventually the more senior police arrived and told them not to attempt anything so stupid.

keep on truckin'

Audio from the action

15.07.2007 23:27

"We'll be back" - mp3 5.4M

Post action interviews

ftp

Plundering Palestine - photos from inside Carmel-Agrexco

17.07.2007 22:52

cherry tomatoes for Tesco

plundered figs

plums
plums

fresh herbs - to give your cooking that heady aroma of oppression

flowers
flowers

more foliage

poor Agrexco still needs more land - these avocados are grown in Peru for them

inside the warehouse

Palestinian flag flying over Carmel-Agrexco

Carmel-Agrexco is responsible for the export of two-thirds of all produce from the illegal Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. These settlements are illegal under international law - and food exported from them amounts to plunder under the Geneva Conventions.