Two people have been charged with criminal damage after Palestine Action carried out a protest at a defence firm's site in Bristol.

The group occupied Elbit Systems subsidiary, Aztec West, on Tuesday, July 1.

They blockaded the site's only entrance and doused it in paint to symbolise "Palestinian bloodshed".

Avon and Somerset Police has since confirmed two people, both aged in their 30s and from London, have been charged with criminal damage.

A force spokeswoman said: "Two people have been charged following a small protest at Aztec West Business Park yesterday (Tuesday, July 1).

"India Kalff, aged 30, and Jordan Woodgate, aged 36, both from London, have been jointly charged with criminal damage.

"The charges relate to an incident outside Elbit Systems in Almondsbury yesterday morning."

The pair have been released on conditional police bail and are due to appear at Bristol Magistrates Court on July 29.

Two people have been charged after Palestine Action staged a protest in Bristol

Palestine Action also targeted the Guardtech Group's facility in Haverhill, Suffolk, on the same day.

GB News has approached Suffolk Police for comment.

It comes as the group is seeking a legal challenge against the Government's bid to proscribe the group under anti-terror laws.

In a statement on July 1, a Palestine Action spokesman said: "While the government is rushing through Parliament absurd legislation to proscribe Palestine Action, the real terrorism is being committed in Gaza.

"These daily atrocities are ones in which Elbit Systems is an active participant, as are those like Guardtech whom facilitate Elbit's business of genocide.

"Palestine Action affirms that direct action is necessary in the face of Israel’s ongoing crimes against humanity of genocide, apartheid, and occupation, and to end British facilitation of those crimes."

Protesters pictured at an earlier protest

A draft order was laid before Parliament on Monday, July 30, to amend the Terrorism Act 2000 to include Palestine Action as a proscribed organisation, making membership and support for the direct action group illegal.

If approved, it would become a criminal offence punishable by up to 14 years in prison.

An urgent hearing was held in the High Court on Monday related to an application for judicial review on behalf of one of the founders of the group, Huda Ammori.

A further hearing will be held on Friday to decide whether the Government can temporarily be blocked from banning the group, pending a hearing to decide whether Palestine Action can bring the legal challenge.

Ammori told reporters that causing disruption "is not terrorism" while Home Secretary Yvette Cooper has said proscribing the group is a “legitimate response to the threat posed” by Palestine Action.

The Home Secretary has the power to proscribe an organisation under the Terrorism Act of 2000 if she believes it is "concerned in terrorism".

Some 81 organisations have been proscribed under the 2000 Act, including Islamist terrorist groups such as Hamas and al-Qaida, far-right groups such as National Action, and Russian private military company the Wagner Group.

The draft order laid also lists neo-Nazi group Maniacs Murder Cult and far-right nationalist group Russian Imperial Movement, including its paramilitary arm Russian Imperial Legion, to be proscribed in the UK.