Four Palestine Action activists were convicted on Tuesday of breaking into an Israeli defence factory in the UK and smashing equipment with sledgehammers and crowbars.
Jurors in Woolwich Crown Court found Charlotte Head, Samuel Corner, Leona Kamio and Fatema Rajwani guilty of criminal damage. They face sentencing on June 12.
The attack was one of the events that led the government to ban the group as a “terrorist organisation”. London’s High Court said that the decision was unlawful, but has kept the ban in place while the government appeals.
The group said they wanted to dismantle drones and weaponry that would be used to kill people.
Head was behind the wheel of a van that crashed through the gates of the Elbit Systems factory in Bristol on August 6 2024.
The four activists, dressed in red jumpsuits, began destroying property before ending up in a fight with security guards and police that left one officer with a broken back.
Two others, Zoe Rogers and Jordan Devlin, were acquitted of criminal damage.
The convictions followed a previous trial in which jurors acquitted the six of aggravated burglary but could not reach verdicts on criminal damage charges.
