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[Home Secretary Yvette Cooper has said
she will proscribe Palestine Action under anti-terror law.

It comes days after activists from the group broke
into RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire and spray-painted
two military planes red - an incident Cooper
called "disgraceful".
The move effectively brands the group a
terrorist organisation and, if passed in Parliament,
would make membership
of and support of the group illegal.

Palestine Action called the government's
action "unhinged".
Cooper's announcement came as Palestine Action
held a protest in central London,
with hundreds in attendance
and thirteen arrested as scuffles broke out.

Announcing her intention to ban the group,
Cooper said Palestine Action had a
"long history of unacceptable criminal damage".

"The UK's defence enterprise is vital to
the nation's national security and this
Government will not tolerate
those that put that security at risk," she added.

Counter-terrorism police are leading
the investigation into Friday's incident at Brize Norton.

In a statement, Palestine Action said:
"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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