Activists remain on the rooftop of an engineering factory in Newcastle on Monday evening - around 12 hours after police were called to the site.
Shortly before 7.30am, Northumbria Police received a report that a number of protestors had climbed onto the roof of a premises on Scotswood Road. Photos from the scene show a person standing on the rooftop of Pearson Engineering Ltd armed with a sledgehammer and a large banner fixed to the building's scaffolding which reads "75 years of Nakba. Resistance until Return".
And on the ground a number of supporters joined holding 'Free Palestine' signs and Palestine flags. The day of activism coincides the 75th anniversary of the Nakba - "the catastrophe" - a period of "ethnic cleansing" which has led to thousands of Palestinians being killed, hundreds of villages being destroyed, and hundreds of thousands of Palestinians being expelled from their hometown.
