Protesters demand end to UK cooperation with Israel at air force base
Several hundred people demonstrated around the British Royal Air Force base in High Wycombe, southeastern England to demand an end to military cooperation between the UK and Israel and ongoing British support for Israel’s attacks on Gaza.
Protesters carried banners and chanted slogans accusing the British government of complicity in the “genocide of the Palestinian people”, emphasising the need for an immediate ban on arms exports to Israel and stopping any military or intelligence participation in the attacks.
Protest underway opposing Britain's intelligence sharing with Israel at the British Royal Air Force's HQ at RAF High Wycombe.
Time to end this shameful military collaboration and complicity in genocide! pic.twitter.com/c2obr3tnpk
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Former Israeli army chief to join families of captives protest on Sunday
Former Israeli army chief of staff has announced he will join the families of captives at their protest tomorrow to call on the government to return those held in Gaza, Israeli news outlet Haaretz reported.
Gadi Eizenkot called on “all those for whom the Israeli ethos and the values of Judaism are dear” to take part in the protest.
Last month, Eizenkot resigned from his seat in the Knesset after saying that the past 22 months of Israel’s war on Gaza had achieved none of the government’s war goals, and Prime Minister Netanyahu’s “lack of leadership and refusal to make difficult decisions, out of personal and political considerations, are dragging Israel into the abyss”.
