Police treated protesters harshly at an October 21 action outside Heat Treatment Australia (HTA) in Magan-djin/Brisbane.
The protesters called for an end to Israel’s genocide in Gaza, and specifically that the government stop arming Israel.
At least two protesters were arrested early on trivial or dubious grounds like standing on a driveway without being given a chance to move on. Police also made safety checks on activists cars as an act of harassment.
HTA treats all F35 components made in Australia. This makes the company complicit in Israel's genocide. F35 jets have been used extensively in Israel’s bombardment of Gaza, where over 40,000 Palestinians have been killed.
“The F35 Genocide Jets are crucial to Israel's assault on Gaza,” Wage Peace said in a media statement.
“Every component manufactured in Australia for F-35s needs to be heat treated for use.”
This gives HTA has a “direct link” in the genocide according to the group.
Dozens of protesters joined the morning action.
Declassified Australia has that “at least 68 shipments of F-35 fighter jet parts have been flown on commercial passenger planes to Israel from Australia as recently as last month”.
