Pro-Palestinian activists targeted the British offices of German financial services firm Allianz, daubing the outside with red paint in protest over the company’s links to Israeli defence firm Elbit Systems, Reuters reports.

Palestine Action claimed responsibility for the protest on social media platform X, and said demonstrators had attacked 10 Allianz offices in the UK and “occupied” the insurer’s UK headquarters in Guildford, south of London, overnight.

“Without insurance, Elbit couldn’t operate in Britain,” Palestine Action said in its post, describing Allianz as “investors and insurers of Israel’s biggest weapons firm”.

UK-based spokespeople for Allianz, one of Europe’s biggest financial services groups, did not respond to a request for comment.