🚨 Merrimack 4 Defeat Felonies, Get 60 Days in Jail For Attacking Elbit - A Unity of Fields Report

Four Palestine Action activists — Paige Belanger, Sophie Ross, Bridget Shergalis, and Calla Walsh — were facing extreme felony charges for attacking the Elbit Systems facility in Merrimack, New Hampshire on 20 November 2023. Now, the Merrimack 4 are resolving their case and will serve 60 days in county jail as Amerikan justice for resisting genocide and disrupting production at the largest zionist weapons company.

The Merrimack protest — characterized by the state as a “siege and riot”— involved a simultaneous road blockade, roof occupation, and attack on the building’s façade causing tens of thousands of dollars in damages and, for the day, shutting down the facility where workers produce weapons that surveil, massacre, and torture Palestinians.

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After nearly a year of the state’s failed attempts to intimidate and break the Merrimack 4, the NH AGs are now dropping all the felony charges, which totaled 37 years in prison. The co-defendants are pleading guilty to misdemeanor criminal mischief and criminal trespass. Their sentence includes 60 days in jail, a 24-month suspended sentence for 3 years, and a stay-away order from every Elbit Systems facility, among other conditions.

Ross and Walsh still face several charges for direct actions in Cambridge, Massachusetts where protestors successfully shut down the first Elbit office in the US.

Information on how to support the Merrimack 4 and write to them in jail will be publicized when available. 

Losing comrades to jail, even for a short period, is painful for the movement — but the Merrimack 4’s defeat of felony charges and avoidance of decades in prison is a major win against repression.

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🟡🟢 Hezbollah:
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Video: Scenes from the operation of the Islamic Resistance targeting the settlements of “Kiryat Shmona” and “Rosh Pinna,” northern occupied Palestine.
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Notes:
1:29 - Settlers’ camera.

🚨 Lebanese Ministry of Health:
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70 martyrs and 400 wounded in the occupation's aggression on Lebanon, today.

🚨 Gunfire has been reported at the “Manara” settlement in northeast occupied Palestine, moments after occupation forces suspected that unspecified people attempted to cross the Lebanese-Palestinian border near “Shlomi” in the northwest

Occupation forces have fired flares and are combing “Manara.”

🚨 One martyr has ascended and one wounded was reported following an IOF airstrike targeting a tent sheltering displaced people from the Fayyad family near the 17th roundabout west of Deir al-Balah in the central #Gaza Strip.

Artillery shelling targeted the Nusseirat Girls school, which houses displaced people in the new camp north of Nusseirat in the central #Gaza Strip.

Glory to the martyrs.

🚨 The IOF carried out a series of airstrikes in the central, western, and northern Bekaa of Lebanon, reaching from Zahle to Baalbek. 30 airstrikes targeted the central Bekaa within half an hour.

🚨 Accordingly only to zionist media: three resistance fighters infiltrated the settlement of "Manara" in northeastern occupied Palestine and engaged in an armed clash with zionist forces. The details of the event remain under military censorship.

Zionist media claims that the "security event" in "Manara" in northeastern occupied Palestine was IOF soldiers shooting at wild boars thinking that they were fighters infiltrating the settlement.

In "Shlomi" in northwestern occupied Palestine, three "israeli" drug dealers were reportedly arrested near the border.

While zionist media is in a frenzy and their soldiers are paranoid, Hezbollah has not fired a rocket in over 10 hours.

🟡🟢 Hezbollah:
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In support of the steadfast Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip and in support of their brave and honorable resistance, and in defense of Lebanon and its people, the Islamic Resistance carried out a number of operations against "israeli" enemy army positions, bases and deployments in northern occupied Palestine on Wednesday 25-09-2024, according to the following:

1. Targeting the "Ilaniya" base with a barrage of Fadi-1 missiles.

2. On Wednesday morning, September 25, 2024, at 6:30 AM, the Islamic Resistance launched a ballistic missile of the Qader-1 type, targeting the Mossad headquarters in the suburbs of "Tel Aviv", which is responsible for the assassinations of leaders and the detonation of pagers and wireless devices.

3. Targeting "Hatzor" settlement with dozens of rockets.

4. Targeting the "israeli" army’s Northern Command headquarters at "Dado" base with dozens of rockets.

5. Targeting the "Sa’ar" settlement with barrages of rockets.

6. Targeting "Kiryat Motzkin" settlement with barrages of rockets.

7. Targeting an explosives materials factory in the "Zikhron" area with a barrage of Fadi-3 missiles.

8. A second targeting of "Kiryat Motzkin" settlement with barrages of Fadi-1 missiles.

9. The Islamic Resistance’s air defense units confronted two enemy warplanes over the towns of Houla and Meis Al-Jabal, forcing them to leave Lebanese airspace.

10. Targeting the spy equipment at the "Ramia" site with appropriate weapons, resulting in its destruction.

11. Targeting the "Branit" barracks with heavy artillery shells, resulting in a direct hit.

🚨 According to zionist media, air defenses were activated without sirens ringing in the “Sufa” settlement in the #Gaza envelope.

🚨 A young man was wounded after being targeted by occupation bullets in the city of Dura, southern #AlKhalil, during the ongoing IOF invasion.

🚨 The Bekaa in eastern Lebanon was subjected to about 60 airstrikes last night, targeting many villages and towns, leaving many martyrs and wounded.

At least 23 martyrs from Syrian nationality, including children, ascended yesterday in the IOF airstrike targeting the town of Younine in northern Beqaa in Lebanon.

Four martyrs ascended in Shaath near Baalbak.

11 martyrs and 9 wounded were reported in the incomplete toll of the massacre in the town of Karak in the Zahle district.

Glory to the martyrs.

🚨 Missile sirens ring repeatedly in occupied Akka and surrounding settlements deep in northern occupied Palestine.

⚫️ Saraya Al-Quds - Jenin Brigade:
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After our fighters returned from the battle lines, they confirmed clashing with an infantry force yesterday evening and showering them with barrages of bullets in the axis of Al-Assir Mosque. Our heroes also clashed with enemy forces in the Cinema axis and the Al-Hadaf neighborhood. Our heroes in the engineering unit detonated a number of explosive devices in enemy vehicles in various axes of clashes.

🟢 Martyr Izz El-Din Al-Qassam Brigades:
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Al-Qassam Brigades bombard enemy gatherings east of the city of Khan Younis with heavy-caliber mortar shells.