British Home Secretary today announced the government’s intention to outlaw Palestine Action, calling it a terrorist organization, days after activists bombed aircraft at a Royal Air Force base.
A motion will be tabled in Parliament next Monday, Ivette Cooper said in a written statement to the House of Commons, denouncing a “long history of unacceptable deliberate destruction.”
British police earlier today banned the pro-Palestinian protest network Palestine Action from demonstrating outside parliament after two of its members illegally entered a military base last week.
Following the police ban, the organization announced that it had moved the location of today’s protest to Trafalgar Square, which is just outside the police exclusion zone.
This pro-Palestinian organisation is among those that, since the start of the war in Gaza, has regularly targeted defence and companies in Britain linked to Israel.
Members of the group are alleged to have caused millions of pounds of damage, to have attacked a police officer with an axe and, in last week’s incident, to have damaged two military aircraft, Metropolitan Police Commissioner Mark Rowley said.
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