'People Against Genocide' members abseil through roof of UAV Tactical Systems, owned by the UK subsidiary of Israel's largest defence company

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/46389822

April 24, 2026

According to media group The Aftershock, the activists used ladders to climb over razor-wire fencing to enter the premises.

After occupying the roof, they drilled holes into it and subsequently abseiled into the building.

The Aftershock reported that the ceiling of the clean room, where Israeli drone parts are reportedly made, was broken. It said that such contamination of the clean room could knock it out of use for some months.

One of the activists involved said: “We are sick and tired of our government’s collaboration in this genocide that Israel is committing on the Palestinian people."

  • ohulancutash@feddit.ukEnglish
    2719·
    3 days ago

    The benefits of not living somewhere that’s dumbed-down the language to a series of woops and y’alls.

        • kreskin@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          20 hours ago

          Yeah, that pained me too but I figured “dumbed-down” then <noun> was grammatically ok. I agonized over “the” in “dumbed-down the language” for a few seconds then decided articles could probably be dropped from the em-dash rule. Life is hard, no need to make waves if its not truly a life and death grammatical correction.

    • Warl0k3@lemmy.worldEnglish
      151·
      3 days ago

      In the US it’s generally called rappelling - abseiling is derived from the german term, but it’s seldom used in the states.

      • ms.lane@lemmy.worldEnglish
        14·
        3 days ago

        Conversely, in Australia I’ve only ever heard ‘Rappelling’ in US movies, the common term is Abseiling here.

        • Warl0k3@lemmy.worldEnglish
          5·
          3 days ago

          Yep, I’ve never really heard Rappelling used in the commonwealth countries (outside of super tourist-y areas).

      • frongt@lemmy.zipEnglish
        6·
        2 days ago

        I don’t know if it’s just a me thing, but I think of rappelling as being against a surface, while if you do it in the open air it’s abseiling (though you could call it abseiling against a surface too).

    • magnue@lemmy.worldEnglish
      37·
      2 days ago

      Their brains are too busy trying to understand the farenheit scale and using the imperial system.

      Edit: these cunts have a worse sense of humour than the Germans. I look forward to the fall of their empire tbh.