Carmel Agrexco and Cargoflora's depots in Hayes Middlesex have been blockaded early this morning. Cargoflora's gates have been blocked by campaigners using D-Locks and superglue while the Agrexco blockaders have used panels of 'Hares' fencing.
Carmel Agrexco is a partly Israeli state owned company, the largest exporter of agricultural produce from illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank. Cargoflora is a British company whic has, reportedly, been handling Agrexco's cut flowers and which advertises that it imports and provides freight services for Israeli flowers - for mor info on Cargoflora see 
http://www.corporatewatch.org/?lid=3515 .
Both companies are processing large amounts of Israli flowers, and flowers from the occupied territories this Valentine's period. Israel has eased its siege on Gaza specifically to allow the export of flowers to Europe through Israeli companies, who make a tidy profit out of the captve economy. Roughly 450,000 flowers have been passing through the Gaza crossings each week, bound for the UK, Holland and other parts of Europe. Agrexco's flowers are also sourced from the occupied West Bank.
http://www.corporatewatch.org/?lid=3515 . Both companies are processing large amounts of Israli flowers, and flowers from the occupied territories this Valentine's period. Israel has eased its siege on Gaza specifically to allow the export of flowers to Europe through Israeli companies, who make a tidy profit out of the captve economy. Roughly 450,000 flowers have been passing through the Gaza crossings each week, bound for the UK, Holland and other parts of Europe. Agrexco's flowers are also sourced from the occupied West Bank.
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