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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.
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Regarding the involvement of the UK in Intelligence flights for Israels attacks, but also for facilitating US arms deliveries i can highly recommend the investigative work of declassifieduk. The UK while providing less military aid than the US or Germany in the shape of arms deliveries, is extensively involved in Israels attacks through logistical and intelligence support.
https://www.declassifieduk.org/britain-secretly-sent-500-extra-troops-to-cyprus-base-being-used-to-supply-weapons-to-israel/
https://www.declassifieduk.org/why-have-israeli-military-aircraft-been-landing-at-a-uk-air-base/
https://www.declassifieduk.org/britain-sent-over-500-spy-flights-to-gaza/Removed by mod
This makes wonder if organizations like these are infiltrated by Russia.
At this point western governments has given Russia a huge cover, simply bring a Palestinian flag, and the operation changes from Russian sabotage to protest action
I don’t think so. People of palestine action have faced prison sentences for nonviolent crimes. And they have been active well before Russias fullscale invasion of Ukraine.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestine_Action
Palestine Action was established on 30 July 2020 when activists broke into and spray-painted the interior of Elbit Systems’ UK headquarters in London.[2] The organisation’s co-founders are Huda Ammori, whose father is Palestinian, and Richard Barnard, a long-term left-wing activist.
Filton 18
An initial ten people were raided and arrested by counter-terror forces under the Terrorism Act on 19 November 2024 in relation to an August action against the Elbit Systems HQ in Bristol,[47] in addition to those previously arrested on the scene who were charged for non-terror related crimes.[48][49] In total, 18 activists were held in custody, dubbed the Filton 18.[50][51] Tom Southerden of Amnesty International said the terrorism powers were misused to circumvent normal legal protections, resulting in excessively long pre-charge detention.[52] Documents released under Freedom of Information suggest that the UK government shared contact details of counter-terrorism police and prosecutors with the Israeli embassy during the investigation into the incident.[53]
https://palestineaction.org/prison-sentences/
Two people who took direct action to dismantle and occupy a weapons company, were sentenced to prison after pleading guilty to charges of criminal damage. A third, who had taken part in the action was acquitted at Chester Crown Court. Out of the two imprisoned, Mike Lynch White, a scientist, was sentenced to 27 months. The other, was sentenced to 16 months. Usually, approximately half of a custodial sentence is served in prison.
This would be a ridiculously ineffective way to waste operatives. Also if there was any plausible links to Russia, there is a strong reason to assume that something would have come up in the “counter-terror” investigations and heavily placated by the British and Israeli government to delegitimize the group.
If we look at actual Russian sabotage we see exploding parcels, drones around military sites, arson attacks…
Nonwithstanding, the fact that two people on an E-Scooter could break into an airforce base, damage planes there and leave undetected will surely be followed closely by Russia and is a huge security failure for the RAF. If people can drive in a fire extinguisher full of paint, Russian operatives could drive in a bunch of explosives and destroy all the planes on the tarmac.
Russian operatives could drive in a bunch of explosives and destroy all the planes on the tarmac.
Please Putin do this and I will literally give you a blowjob.