AHAVA GO HEROES

Two activists shut down the Covent Garden branch of Israeli cosmetics company Ahava on Saturday by locking on to a concrete block inside the shop. The activists were finally removed by a police cutting team at 4.30pm, by which time the shop crew had given up on the day and gone home.

Ahava sells products made from Dead Sea mud and minerals. It has a production facility on the illegal settlement of Mitzpe Shalem and extracts the mud for its products from a site close to the settlement of Kibbutz Kalia in the occupied West Bank.

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