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Yes, but I fundamentally disagree.
Your first point, about being dependent on "complicit" military industrial complex elements - should the rest of the world now be dropping out of any relationship with the US MIL because Trump bombed a school? Should we just agree that having our military infrastructure and operations hindered by activists is OK, because they have the moral high ground?
War is a dirty, fundamentally amoral thing, always, but the company making the tools of war is - in my opinion - as "complicit" as Ikea is in the murder committed with one of their knives.
Go after the CEO! Put the entire management in prison, please! Let's FINALLY see some elites taking responsibility for their actions! But sabotaging a facility that has nothing to do with the cause "for the cause" is just not the way to do it. And, if nothing else, only because the elites gain on this. Because they just got a shitload of money off of insurance, and the Palestinian cause just got another label of "violent criminals who don't care who they hit".
Your second point, about "moral correctness" - OK, Elbit sucks and should die. But does that mean we get to sabotage any and all Elbit facilities? Or attack their employees? Even though their systems barely had anything to do with Gaza? They do UAVs, and those were not used for any form of attacks by Israel, only for reconnaissance. But if that's the case, where do we stop? Many of their systems used Nikon/Canon/other lenses - should we now also attack those companies?
I don't believe in collective responsibility. I don't believe that a dude putting together a recon drone should be punished for something that - maybe! - the CEO of the company has done.
I mean, shit, after war-torn Ukraine sent its grain to help starving Palestinians, you'd think there's some obligation to at least not get in their way, no? Especially considering, again, Elbit's systems were, in the vast majority, used for recon, not payload delivery. Especially considering that this specific facility was fully committed to the Ukrainian war effort and had nothing to do with what is going on in Palestine.