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BBCThe house secretary will transfer to proscribe Palestine Motion group within the coming weeks, successfully branding them as a terrorist organisation, the BBC understands.
Yvette Cooper is getting ready a written assertion to place earlier than Parliament on Monday – which if handed will make changing into a member of the group unlawful.
The choice comes as a safety evaluate begins at navy bases throughout the UK, after pro-Palestinian activists broke into RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire and sprayed two navy planes with purple paint.
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer condemned the motion as “disgraceful,” describing it as an “act of vandalism”.
The BBC has contacted Palestine Motion for remark.
South East counter terrorism police confirmed its specialist officers had been investigating the incident alongside Thames Valley Police and the Ministry of Defence (MoD).
Counter-terrorism police added the incident occurred within the early hours of Friday and that enquiries had been “ongoing to ascertain the precise circumstances”.
Footage posted on-line by Palestine Motion on Friday confirmed two individuals contained in the Oxfordshire airbase in darkness, with one using on a scooter as much as an Airbus Voyager and spraying paint into its jet engine.
After sharing the footage, a spokesperson stated: “Regardless of publicly condemning the Israeli authorities, Britain continues to ship navy cargo, fly spy planes over Gaza and refuel US and Israeli fighter jets.”
The group claimed its activists had evaded safety and had put the air-to-air refuelling tankers “out of service”.
Nevertheless RAF engineers have been assessing the harm, with a defence supply earlier telling the BBC that they didn’t count on the incident would have an effect on operations.
Thames Valley Police earlier stated it had obtained a report about individuals having access to the bottom and inflicting felony harm.
“Inquiries are ongoing to find and arrest these accountable,” the drive stated.
The incident sparked outrage amongst some MPs, with Reform UK chief Nigel Farage and shadow justice secretary Robert Jenrick calling for the group to be banned.
For the reason that begin of the present battle in Gaza, Palestine Motion has engaged in actions which have predominantly focused arms firms. In Could, it claimed duty for the daubing of a US navy airplane in Eire.
RAF Brize Norton serves because the hub for UK strategic air transport and refuelling, together with flights to RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus. The air drive has performed reconnaissance flights over Gaza out of the Cyprus base.
