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Cordon set up as police make terror-related arrest

Bea Swallow
BBC News, Bristol
BBC A white police van with blue and yellow hi-vis decals, parked beside the pavement on a residential street. There is blue and white cordon tape set up next to it, securing off a faded pink house with bay windows and a dilapidated garden wall.BBC
Counter-terrorism police raided the home in the St Werburghs area of Bristol

A sixth person has been arrested as part of an ongoing investigation in which 18 people have been charged with numerous terror-related offences.

Members of the recently proscribed group Palestine Action are accused of breaking into the Elbit Systems UK site near Bristol on 6 August last year.

A 20-year-old man from London has been taken into custody, alongside the arrests of five other people on Tuesday in connection with the investigation.

The BBC also understands a cordon set up by the Counter Terrorism Policing South East (CTPSE) in St Werburghs, Bristol, on Tuesday is connected to the latest arrests.

Palestine Action A screenshot from a video uploaded by Palestine Action. It shows a white van with curved rectangular windows and yellow and orange hi-vis decals on the back. It is night time and there is a lot of smoke in the air which is being lit up by the van's red brake lights. On the right there is a figure wearing all black and a white hard hat.Palestine Action
Elbit employees and two police officers were "seriously assaulted" during the incident, police said

Counter Terrorism Policing South East (CTPSE) said the arrested people were detained on suspicion of the commission, preparation and instigation of acts of terrorism, contrary to Section 41 of the Terrorism Act 2000.

Palestine Action allege Elbit Systems UK is involved in the manufacture and supply of weapons to the Israeli military - a claim the company strongly denies.

The six arrested this week - a 66-year-old man from Bristol, a 20-year-old woman from Whitstable in Kent, a 19-year-old man from London, a 27-year-old man from London, a 33-year-old man from London, and a 20-year-old man from London - remain in custody.

Palestine Action was declared a proscribed organisation under the Terrorism Act 2000 on 5 July.

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