Six British pro-Palestinian activists were acquitted of aggravated burglary over a 2024 raid on Israeli defense firm Elbit’s factory on Wednesday, with a jury returning no guilty verdicts at all in a blow for prosecutors.

The six were members of the now-banned group Palestine Action, which organized a meticulously planned assault on the Elbit Systems UK facility in Bristol, southwest England, in the early hours of August 6, 2024.

The raid, which prosecutors said caused about 1 million pounds ($1.4 million) of damage, took place around 10 months into the Gaza war triggered by the Hamas-led terrorists who invaded Israel in October 2023.

Prosecutors had told a jury at London’s Woolwich Crown Court at the start of the trial in November that the six were part of a larger group that used a white former prison van to ram their way into the factory and then smash equipment.

The defendants said they were simply motivated to destroy weapons to stop what they described as Israel’s “genocide” in Gaza and disavowed violence against people, though police bodycam footage broadcast during the trial showed one of them striking an officer with a sledgehammer, resulting in a fractured spine.

Charlotte Head, 29, Samuel Corner, 23, Leona Kamio, 30, Fatema Zainab Rajwani, 21, Zoe Rogers, 22, and Jordan Devlin, 31, were all acquitted of aggravated burglary by the jury after more than 36 hours of deliberation.

Rajwani, Rogers and Devlin were found not guilty of violent........

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