Toll targeted by Melbourne’s pro-Palestine movement for its alleged role transporting ammo to Israel

Anti-Israel activists have laid bare the extent of their vandalism in new footage posted to social media that reveals a wave of attacks on properties owned by Toll.

A picture of the attack on Toll posted on Instagram.

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An Anti-Israel Instagram account has posted a series of vlog-style videos revealing a wave of attacks over the past two weeks on properties owned by global shipping giant Toll.

It comes after Toll became the latest target of Melbourne’s pro-Palestine movement for its alleged role in transporting ammunitions to Israel.

In the first of three videos posted to Instagram account @for­autonomydestroyaustralia, a first-person perspective video shows vandals approaching the Toll headquarters on St Kilda Road in inner Melbourne while saying “Peace be upon Gaza, its battlefields, its heroes.”

Multiple figures are then shown sprinting towards the property before dousing its front windows in red paint and smashing a revolving glass door in an attack believed to have taken place in the early hours of July 15.

A second video uploaded by the same account and seemingly shot on the morning of July 20 shows vandals attacking the Toll Global Forwarding Centre in Broadmeadows, in the city’s north.

While the poorly lit video reveals little, its caption claims “The facility was attacked with graffiti and sprayed with red paint”.

“Its windows were hit and internet pits sabotaged.”

The account then posted a third video from July 22 in which masked vandals again vandalise a third Toll facility, which appears to be the company’s site in Campbellfield, with windows shown being smashed and the word “genocide” scribed across the building’s facade with spray paint.

A spokeswoman from Victoria Police said “Police are investi­gating a number of incidents of criminal damage at businesses across Melbourne between 18 and 22 July this year. Investigators believe at least three incidents in Melbourne, Westmeadows and Campbellfield are linked.”

She also said police had not ruled out whether the same offenders were behind previous attacks on weapons manufacturer Lovitt Technologies in Greensborough, which was also filmed and posted for the first time by the same Instagram account.

A video showing an underground group threatening violence against Australian aerospace company Lovitt Technologies was posted by the same account behind the most recent clips of the Toll attacks.

That account also posted the first known version of a clip that circulated earlier in the month of masked activists threatening further attacks on the Lovitt site and demonstrating how to manufacture a rudimentary firebombing device. The Instagram account claims all videos posted are submitted anonymously through an encrypted upload portal linked in the account’s biography, although all the videos share similar graphics and appear to use the same voice altering software.

“Police are also looking at whether the incidents are related to any other recent incidents of criminal damage, including an incident at a Greensborough business earlier in July,” the spokeswoman said.

“At this time no one has been arrested and the investigation remains ongoing.”

A spokesman for Toll said it was “aware of recent incidents at several of its Melbourne locations and is co-operating fully with authorities”.

The spokesman also defended the company’s operations, adding they were “compliant with all ­applicable laws and regulations”.

It comes as the account claims the logistics giant “transports weapons for export to the ‘U.S.’, where they are used to support ‘israels’ genocidal occupation of Palestine”.

It also alleges that the company “provides logistics, fuel and transport for ‘australias’ genocidal occupation of this continent”.