Two more have been arrested on suspicion of a terror offence after planes at an RAF base were vandalised.
Counter Terrorism Policing South East said two men aged 22 and 24, both from London, were taken into police custody after the incident at RAF Brize Norton on June 20.
They are accused of the commission, preparation or instigation of acts of terrorism, contrary to Section 41 of the Terrorism Act 2000.
On Friday, a woman, aged 29, of no fixed address, and two men, aged 36 and 24, from London, were also arrested accused of the same offence.
Two more have been been arrested in connection with the incident at Brize Norton
REUTERSA 41-year-old woman, of no fixed address, was also arrested on suspicion of assisting an offender, police said.
Palestine Action previously posted footage online showing people inside the Oxfordshire base, with one person appearing to ride an electric scooter up to an Airbus Voyager air-to-air refuelling tanker, before spray-painting into its jet engine.
The Home Secretary Yvette Cooper made the decision to proscribe Palestine Action following the incident, with the arrests coming just days before the proscription is set to come into force.
Support for the group will become a criminal offence punishable by up to 14 years in prison when the ban comes into effect as soon as next Friday.
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Palestine Action has staged demonstrations that have included spraying the London offices of Allianz Insurance with red paint and vandalising US President Donald Trump’s Turnberry golf course in South Ayrshire.
As she announced plans for Palestine Action’s proscription, Cooper said the group’s methods have become "more aggressive", with its members showing "willingness to use violence".
At the time of the incident, the group said it had "directly intervened in the genocide and prevented crimes against the Palestinian people" by "decommissioning two military planes".
Palestine Action said Thursday’s arrests "further demonstrates that proscription is not about enabling prosecutions under terrorism laws, it’s about cracking down on non-violent protests which disrupt the flow of arms to Israel during its genocide in Palestine".
Reacting to the news they were going to be proscribed, a spokesman told GB News: "This is an unhinged reaction to an action spraying paint in protest the UK Government arming Israel's slaughter of the Palestinian people.
"The real crime here is not red paint being sprayed on these war planes, but the war crimes that have been enabled with those planes because of the UK Government's complicity in Israel's genocide."
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