Giving evidence at the Old Bailey on Monday, Norman denied planning the raid.
When asked by her barrister Henry Blaxland KC if she knew violence would be used against security guards, she said: “The whole point of Palestine Action is to be against violence on people, we were opposed to a genocide of thousands of innocent people, if we were to engage in personal violence it would undermine everything we stood for.”
During the break-in, a security guard was injured and suffered a 4cm laceration to his head.
Norman told the court: “I didn’t know anybody had been hurt, as far as I was concerned, the action had been a success.
“Six activists managed to break into one of the most secure sites and destroy weapons, it was phenomenal, I stand by that.”
The court heard Norman had previously been arrested on three separate occasions and was awaiting sentencing for her involvement in a blockade at Elbit’s UAV Engines site in Staffordshire in November 2024.