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UK counterterrorism police have arrested four people after members of a pro-Palestinian campaign group last week broke into the country’s largest Royal Air Force base and damaged military aircraft.
The police said on Friday that it had arrested three people — a woman and two men — on suspicion of the commission, preparation or instigation of acts of terrorism. Another woman was arrested on suspicion of assisting the offenders.
The move comes after members of the Palestine Action group broke in to RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire and sprayed red paint into the engines of several Voyager aircraft, in protest against the UK government’s support for Israel’s war in Gaza.
UK ministers have since moved to proscribe the campaign group as a terrorist organisation under British law, making it a criminal offence to belong to the group.
