The Water Transport Workers Federation of India, which represents 3,500 workers across 11 key Indian ports, says it will refuse to load or unload weapons to Israel.

“[As] port workers, part of labor unions would always stand against the war and killing innocent people like women and children,” the union said in a statement, India Today reported. 

“The recent attack of Israel on Gaza plunged thousands of Palestinians into immense suffering and loss. Women and children have been blown to pieces in the war. Parents were unable to recognize their children killed in bombings which were exploding everywhere,” it added.