DSV in Potsdam, Germany targeted by Palestine Action Global

DSV’s depot in Potsdam, Germany recently became the latest site to be targeted by Palestine Action’s global campaign. Actionists sent a clear message to DSV by smashing windows and using red paint to call on the company to “drop Elbit”.

This comes just days after Palestine Action Éire hit DSV and a previous coordinated action that saw Palestine Action target 5 DSV sites in one night.

Logistics, transport and warehouse multinational DSV ships weapons and military components for Israeli arms manufacturer Elbit and for its subsidiary UAV Tactical Systems on a weekly basis from European based factories to Ashdod.

Elbit Systems is Israel’s biggest weapons company, producing 85% of the military’s killer drone fleet, and land-based equipment. Its weapons, which it boasts of being “battle-tested” on Palestinians, have been used throughout the ongoing genocide in Gaza, in the Palestinian West Bank, against Syria, and Yemen, and currently, against Lebanon and Iran.

DSV took over the shipping of Elbit’s weapons after another shipping company, Kuehne + Nagel, one of the only six companies licensed to transport and handle weapons in Britain, was forced to cut ties with Elbit in 2024 following a series of actions by Palestine Action and broader public pressure.

A spokesperson for the action has said:

Elbit is making this mass murder possible. By working for Elbit DSV is just as complicit. DSV drop Elbit!

The group has threatened to keep targeting DSV sites until it drops its services for the Israeli arms manufacturer.

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