Protesters block factory in Norway for supplying Zionist entity with weapons

OSLO, Dec. 18 (YPA) – Demonstrators in the country of Rufus in southeastern Norway closed the entrance to the “NAMO” factory, which produces ammunition and rocket engines, in protest against the use of weapons produced by the Norwegian company in the occupied Palestinian territories.

The Norwegian Government’s 1959 Declaration in the Basic Principles of Norway states, when applications for the export of military technology are considered by the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, that “weapons and ammunition shall not be sold in territories where there is war or where there is a threat of war.”

The Norwegian TV channel “NRK” quoted Kjell Stefansen, spokesman for the Palestinian Solidarity Organization, as saying: “We are here to close the entrance to the factory because the weapons produced by NAMO are used to kill Palestinians in Gaza.”

The channel published a message from the “Palestinian Committee” stating that “missiles for the M141 grenade launcher are being exported to Israel from the NAMO factory in Arizona, in the United States.”

The TV channel reported, according to the committee, that “NAMO” and the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs are trying to evade by saying that these are American weapons because they are made in the United States of America, but “NAMO” denies that the weapons it produces are at the disposal of the Zionist occupation army.

Last November, the Norwegian newspaper VG, citing the management of a company that produces chemicals, including rocket fuel, reported that fuel components produced in Norway might be used by “Israel” in Hellfire missiles to bomb Gaza, despite Norway’s ban on arms exports to the Zionist entity.

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