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£210K Police Funding Amid Pro-Palestine Protests at Arms Factory

6/12/2025

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Northumbria police have allocated £209,755 to safeguard Pearson Engineering, an arms factory in Newcastle linked to Israel's finance ministry and UK-sanctioned Bezalel Smotrich. Since October 2023, pro-Palestine protests have erupted, highlighting the factory's controversial operations amid ongoing UK sanctions against Smotrich for inciting violence and human rights violations.

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Northumbria police have allocated £209,755 to safeguard Pearson Engineering, an arms factory in Newcastle linked to Israel's finance ministry and UK-sanctioned Bezalel Smotrich. Since October 2023, pro-Palestine protests have erupted, highlighting the factory's controversial operations amid ongoing UK sanctions against Smotrich for inciting violence and human rights violations.