The group, Palestine Action, shared pictures online about the duo's actions.

Two members of a pro-Palestine group broke into RAF Brize Norton and damaged two aircraft, Palestine Action has claimed. In footage posted on social media, the group claims to have entered the base in Oxfordshire and to have escaped undetected overnight. It wrote on X: "Palestine Action break into RAF Brize Norton and damage two military aircrafts.

“Flights depart daily from the base to RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus. From Cyprus, British planes collect intelligence, refuel fighter jets and transport weapons to commit genocide in Gaza. Not only did actionists manage to break into Britain’s largest air force base… they also escaped undetected. Ordinary people can take direct action to intervene in the genocide.”

The Ministry of Defence has been approached for comment.

  • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    11 hours ago

    Doing military sabotage in european countries will not help the palestinian cause.

    Yeah, because who ever heard of direct action against apartheid enablers achieving results where Liberals performatively frowning while upholding the status quo didn’t? 🙄

    That will cause a totally justified crackdown

    Evidently, you have a fucked up definition of “totally justified”

    no government in the world can and will tolerate radical militants who are sabotaging it’s own military in times of global crisis

    But the citizens of the world is supposed to meekly tolerate their governments participating in a fascist apartheid regime committing the worst campaign of genocide the world has seen for decades?

    Sounds like you have some very authoritarian priorities of what’s right and tolerable.

    I’m also not sure if such acts really are helpful at disproving the popular resentment that all palestinians are radical islamists, terrorists or in bed with hamas.

    Big “the protesters should be confined to a corner where they can’t inconvenience anyone” concern trolling energy.

    Nobody who’s arguing in good faith and reachable by logic would think that “all palestinians are radical islamists, terrorists or in bed with hamas.”

    Only bigots, brainwashed victims of disinformation campaigns, and combinations of both think ANYTHING like that, and modeling your resistance on their potential opinions is a way to guarantee that nothing changes for the better.