Outrage as police arrest blind disabled on Gaza protests; Minister thanks cops

The police in London on Saturday arrested more than 400 people who were protesting against the UK government’s Gaza complicity. Among those arrested were a blind and disabled man in a wheelchair and a woman in her nineties. Rifat Jawaid highlights the government’s hypocrisy and desperate support for Benjamin Netanyahu.

Hundreds arrested at protest in support of Palestine Action in London

Police have now arrested 365 protestors supporting the proscribed Palestine Action group - with another five detained for assaults on officers.

British spy plane caught collecting intelligence over Gaza, with Matt Kennard

We speak to Matt Kennard about Britain’s role in the Israeli genocide, particularly its spy flights over Gaza.

Kennard is an independent journalist and previously co-founder and head of investigations at Declassified UK, a news website focusing on British national security issues. He is the author of Irregular Army, which exposed neo-Nazis and other gangs recruited into the US military, and Silent Coup*, with Claire Provost, on how corporations overthrew democracy.

Palestine Acton is prescribed terrorist organisation. They went into a UK military base and damaged equipment, compromising the national security of the UK. Please don't sympathise with them, they believe in forms of activism that are extreme and potentially harmful against innocent UK citizens. 

Nonsense. They targeted the RAF planes, smeared them with red paint, because they are used to help commit genocide.



They did not compromise the security of the UK, unless that depends on 2 planes... They did bring attention to RAF spy flights, which those behind it didn't like. As well as vandalize one of Trump's golf courses, where Trump called them terrorists.

They got proscribed by lumping them together with 2 actual terrorist organizations as a combined bill, to push PA proscription through.

https://www.declassifieduk.org/revealed-how-palestine-action-was-banned/

The UK government was secretly advised that Palestine Action is “highly unlikely” to advocate for violence while officials struggled to produce evidence the group posed a national security threat, it can be revealed.

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The documents detail how the government’s Proscription Review Group (PRG) conceded in March 2025 that a ban on Palestine Action would be “novel and unprecedented”. This was because “there was no known precedent of an organisation being proscribed… mainly due to its use or threat of action involving serious damage to property”.

The Joint Terrorism Analysis Centre (JTAC), which is based within MI5, also concluded that “the majority of direct action by Palestine Action would not be classified as terrorism… but does often involve criminality”.

Cooper was nonetheless advised in March by PRG and JTAC that the threshold to ban the group had been met based on three out of a total of 385 incidents, involving “serious property damage” to arms factories.

Arms factories that supply the arms to commit genocide like Elbit systems.

The JTAC assessment notes how: “PA media channels highly likely will only share footage, or encourage, instances of property damage. PA branded media will highly unlikely explicitly advocate for violence against persons”.

The documents also indicate how national security concerns were not a central factor in the Home Office’s decision to proscribe. Indeed, they barely feature in the government’s open evidence.

Ammori’s lawyers argued in court that “no national security justification for the proscription” was articulated by the Home Office, such that Cooper “did not take into account any weighty national security consideration requiring immediate proscription”.

This appears to run contrary to Cooper’s statement to parliament on 23 June, in which she declared: “The UK’s defence enterprise is vital to the nation’s national security and this Government will not tolerate those who put that security at risk”.

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The discrepancy between the Home Office press briefings and the official intelligence reports raises the prospect that a state-linked disinformation campaign was waged against Palestine Action in order to manufacture public consent for proscription.

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Remarkably, the Foreign Office specifically advised against proscription in March “in response to the breakdown of the ceasefire [in Gaza] and the interaction with Ramadan”.

It noted that proscription at this time risked being “received poorly both domestically and abroad by our partners where it could be perceived as pro-Israel bias after the resumption of their military operations”.

To this end, Cooper repeatedly delayed approving the proscription order until June 2025 citing the Foreign Office’s advice, as well as considerations relating to local elections and forthcoming Palestine Action trials.

The incident at RAF Brize Norton, when Palestine Action activists sprayed paint into Voyager aircraft, was therefore the trigger but not the cause of the proscription order, which had been approved months prior.

Even then, the Home Office did not seem to be altogether confident in the ban.

It included in the proscription order two other organisations, the Maniacs Murder Cult and Russian Imperial Movement, with the apparent goal of lumping Palestine Action together with neo-Nazi groups and making it difficult for MPs to vote against.

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The Foreign Office was nonetheless satisfied that the US government would respond positively to the proscription, the documents show.

On 11 March, an internal Foreign Office report concluded that the US was “likely to be the most supportive of our Five Eyes partners regarding a UK proscription given the new Administration’s position on the OPTs”. This is despite the UK government openly opposing Trump’s position on the OPTs.

There is evidence, moreover, to suggest that Trump may have weighed in on the issue of Palestine Action’s proscription.

On 8 March 2025, Palestine Action activists vandalised the Trump-owned Turnberry golf resort in Scotland, painting the words “Gaza is not 4 sale” on the grass and graffitting the clubhouse. Trump took to his Truth Social media platform shortly afterwards to call Palestine Action “terrorists”.

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This is pure government corruption, an attack on free speech and the right to protest as well as making a mockery of the terrorism act. The government is absolutely wrong in this case and I fully support everyone standing up against this ridiculous attack on free speech.



Terrorism is the use of violence against non-combatants to achieve political or ideological aims.

PA did not use violence, they did not target non-combatants. They targeted grass on a golf course, smeared buildings with paint as well as 2 planes, planes that are used to commit genocide. They're goal is to stop genocide, the same goal the UK government should have by law.


No the government are the extreme ones and are harmful to innocent UK citizens. The people have a right to resist according to the Human Rights Act.

The high court has green lit the challenge
https://administrativecourtblog.wordpress.com/2025/07/31/high-court-green-lights-challenge-to-palestine-action-proscription/
But the home secretary is doing everything to delay.

It doesn't matter if you feel there wasn't enough damage done to the planes to justify PA being a a terrorist org, and it doesn't matter if you feel they shouldn't have been prescribed one. What matters is that there was an incident involving them and they have been, and supporting prescribed terrorist organisations  in MY country is going too far.

This is the VGChartz terms of use. We cannot post anything "inappropriate, profane, defamatory, infringing, obscene, indecent". 

Supporting a terrorist organization can potentially be considered inappropriate or unlawful under various legal and ethical standards. In certain contexts, it might also be classified as:

• Inappropriate or indecent — because it involves supporting violent or harmful activities.
• Profane or obscene — if it involves promotion of violence or hatred that violates community standards.
• Defamatory — if it involves spreading false information that damages reputation.
• Infringing — if it involves violating laws or rights, such as anti-terrorism laws or intellectual property rights.

No disrespect to you. I do like your frequent updates in this thread. It's good to know how everything is progressing, but I had to report your post for your support of Palestine Action. I don't think the mods will do anything, but I live in the UK and how could I not report someone who supports damaging our military equipment? Doesn't matter if you feel it's used for genocide. Every country has a military and there is nothing wrong with that

It's not a terrorist organization by any definition of terrorism. They should be prosecuted for trespassing and vandalism at best.

The incident with the RAF planes came after it was already decided to proscribe PA.

Remarkably, the Foreign Office specifically advised against proscription in March “in response to the breakdown of the ceasefire [in Gaza] and the interaction with Ramadan”. It noted that proscription at this time risked being “received poorly both domestically and abroad by our partners where it could be perceived as pro-Israel bias after the resumption of their military operations”.

To this end, Cooper repeatedly delayed approving the proscription order until June 2025 citing the Foreign Office’s advice, as well as considerations relating to local elections and forthcoming Palestine Action trials.

The incident at RAF Brize Norton, when Palestine Action activists sprayed paint into Voyager aircraft, was therefore the trigger but not the cause of the proscription order, which had been approved months prior.

Even then, the Home Office did not seem to be altogether confident in the ban.

It included in the proscription order two other organisations, the Maniacs Murder Cult and Russian Imperial Movement, with the apparent goal of lumping Palestine Action together with neo-Nazi groups and making it difficult for MPs to vote against.


You're just like the British police, following orders from a corrupt government that supports genocide.

That's what the right to protest is for, to keep governments in check to be for the people, not for the property of Billionaires / corporations or to play colonization abroad. 

The UK is abusing anti-terrorism laws to stifle legitimate protest to protect their complicity in genocide.


Me calling out the UK for attacking free speech and right to assembly is my right under Canadian law and IHL. And I'm concerned that if this isn't reversed quickly Canada will follow as it usually does.

Israeli far-right minister threatens to bring down government over Gaza war plans: Report

Israel’s Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich has reportedly threatened to bring down the government and force a new election, amid growing tensions over the direction of the war in Gaza.

Smotrich made the remarks during a Thursday night security cabinet meeting to discuss future military operations, according to Israel’s Kan public broadcaster. “From my perspective, we can stop everything and let the people decide,” he said.

The governing coalition currently holds just 60 seats in the 120-member Knesset, after the United Torah Judaism party and far-right legislator Avi Maoz quit in recent weeks. An election would only be triggered if parties in the Knesset agree to vote to dissolve the government.

In a rare public rebuke, Smotrich later issued a statement saying he had “lost faith that the prime minister is able and wants to lead the IDF to a decisive victory”.

Israel expected to mobilise tens of thousands more reservists: Reports

Israel’s government is expected to approve plans today to call up tens of thousands of additional reservists as it aims to seize Gaza City, according to Israel’s Channel 13.

If the plans are approved, the total number of mobilised reservists could reach 430,000 through the end of November, Israel’s Kan broadcaster reports.

Israeli military to stay deployed in West Bank refugee camps until end of year: Defence minister

As we’ve reported, Israel’s military waged intensive, months-long raids on several refugee camps in the northern parts of the occupied West Bank earlier this year, displacing tens of thousands and killing dozens.

Claiming the operation to be a security success, Israel’s Defense Minister Israel Katz now says the military will remain active in Jenin, Tulkarem and Nur Shams refugee camps for the coming months.

The military is “currently remaining inside the camps under my orders, at least until the end of the year”, he wrote in a post on X.

Israeli forces detain Palestinians in Bethlehem, Nablus raids: Report

Israeli forces carried out new raids across the occupied West Bank this morning, according to the Wafa news agency.

In Nablus city and the nearby Balata camp, forces searched multiple homes and arrested at least three people, including a young woman, Wafa reported. In the village of Burqa, northwest of the city, another young man was detained.

In Bethlehem, Israeli forces raided a home and arrested a father and son, the agency added.

Palestinian hospitalised after ‘severe beating’ by Israeli soldiers in West Bank: Report

Israeli soldiers stopped and detained a Palestinian man near the town of Haris in the occupied West Bank last night and “severely beat” him, the Wafa news agency reports.

The man, identified as Hamza Marwan Buziyeh, was later left by the roadside near Haris, according to the agency. He was taken to the Martyr Yasser Arafat Governmental Hospital in Salfit for treatment, Wafa said.

Israeli forces kill Palestinian in Jericho

A Palestinian has succumbed to the gunfire wounds he sustained by Israeli forces in Jericho, in the occupied West Bank, yesterday evening, according to the Wafa news agency.

Abdullah Mohammed Atiyat, 25, was pronounced dead this morning after being transferred at dawn to Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital in Jerusalem from Jericho Governmental Hospital due to the seriousness of his condition, it said.

Wafa reported that Israeli forces had wounded Atiyat in the upper body after opening fire during a raid in central Jericho.

Israel has made more than 18,500 West Bank arrests since October 7, 2023: Prisoner’s Society

Israeli forces made 662 arrests during raids in the occupied West Bank last month, reports the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society. Among those detained were 39 minors and 12 women, it said.

Those arrests brought the total number of arrests since the Gaza war broke out to more than 18,500, with more than 1,500 minors and 570 women apprehended, according to its tally. Those figures do not include thousands of people estimated to have been detained in Gaza, said the Prisoner’s Society.

Israeli rights group releases footage showing settler shooting activist Awdah Hathaleen

The Israeli human rights group B’Tselem has released a video showing settler Yinon Levi shooting and killing Palestinian activist Awdah Hathaleen. The footage was filmed by Hathaleen himself.

Levi was released days after killing the 31-year-old activist and was later seen returning to the scene of the crime at the Umm al-Kheir community centre in the occupied West Bank.

Attacks by Israeli settlers on Palestinians across the territory are being recorded on a nearly daily basis. The settlers are often backed by Israeli soldiers.

Israeli settlers launch more attacks as soldiers make arrests in West Bank

Violent Israeli settlers have launched several more attacks across the occupied West Bank in the past several hours, including in the town of az-Zawiya, west of Salfit.

They set fire to an agricultural barn with equipment and tools inside, and burned eight olive trees while destroying a well used for collecting rainwater, according to local sources who spoke with Wafa news agency.

In the village of Shallalat al-Auja, north of Jericho, settlers established a new illegal outpost after bringing in construction tools, and seizing property owned by a Palestinian family that was previously displaced from the area.

In the Bedouin desert located south of Hebron, members of settler organisation Regavim posted leaflets on the walls of Bat al-Zweidin Secondary School, calling on the Israeli government to demolish it. The leaflets argued that keeping the school would encourage Palestinians to build in the area and remain there.

Translation: The occupation police set up a checkpoint to issue violations to vehicles in the Ras al-Amud neighbourhood of Silwan town.

Gaza kidney treatment centre reopens months after being destroyed by Israeli attacks

The Hind Dagma Building for kidney patients at the Nasser Medical Complex in southern Gaza has been handed over to the Ministry of Health after a four-month reconstruction, following its destruction in Israeli attacks.

In a statement on Facebook, the Nasser Medical Complex said: “Today, hope is restored.

“The Hind Dagma Building for kidney patients in Nasser Medical Complex – South of Gaza Strip was handed over to the Ministry of Health, fully rehabilitated and equipped, after being destroyed by the Israeli occupation.

“With a 4-month continuous effort, and with support from the IA (Medics), the building is back to embracing patients.”

Al-Shifa Hospital staff work without food as key departments remain in ruins

Every time we are inside the al-Shifa hospital, working on a report, or meeting with doctors, we can’t help but feel more of the depression that takes over us.

This is one of the largest healthcare facilities that serves the entire Gaza City. The only functioning departments are the emergency ward and the intensive care unit after they were rehabilitated and put back on track.

But what’s worse is not just the physical destruction, but the human capacity inside the hospital. We’re talking about medical staff who are not eating enough in order to do their job in the best way.

Due to the enforced dehydration and starvation, many of them are living off the community kitchens, with whatever meals are provided, just a bowl of soup or lentils, or just living on water for long periods of time.

As we prepared the report, we had to cut filming it twice, to help a collapsing nurse outside, because she hadn’t eaten that day at all.

Many patients’ capacity to recover is ‘close to zero’, says doctor in Gaza

Al Jazeera has spoken with Ahmed Yousef, a trauma specialist who is volunteering in Gaza, about the desperate condition inside the besieged and bombarded territory’s health facilities.

With severe shortages of supplies and patients’ health often already weakened by malnutrition, the doctor said many patients have little chance of recovery.

“Patients come and doctors know if they have a certain level of injury, there’s nothing we can do,” he said. “And to face families, and to face patients in the last moments of their life, and not be able to do the things we are trained to do is devastating.”

On the effects of malnutrition, he noted: “We see skin and bones and ribs, we see temporal wasting, we see sunken eyes … All of the things we learn about malnutrition in textbooks, we see in every person here – doctor, nurse and patient.

“[For] patients who, on top of this, have suffered devastating traumatic injuries … their capacity to recover is close to zero,” he added.

Israel kills three more aid seekers in central Gaza

Three more Palestinians seeking aid have been killed near the Netzarim Corridor in central Gaza, local medical sources tell our reporters on the ground. Numerous others have been wounded in the area, they report.

In its latest daily update yesterday, the Palestinian Health Ministry said Israeli attacks had killed at least 21 aid seekers over the latest 24-hour reporting period.

Five more deaths from starvation, bringing overall toll to 217, including 100 children

The Health Ministry in Gaza says hospitals in the besieged territory have recorded five new deaths from forced starvation during the last 24-hour reporting period, bringing the total number of victims since the start of the war to 217.

Two children were among the latest deaths, raising the number of children who have died from forced starvation in Gaza to 100.

Aid drops providing less than 1 percent of Gaza’s food needs

Palestinian writer and analyst Muhammad Shehada says all of the combined airdrops of aid into the Gaza Strip over the last week have totalled about the equivalent of 15 aid trucks, “which is less than 1 percent of what Gaza needs on a normal day for basic survival”.

Aid agencies have been seeking the entry of at least 600 trucks daily to address the dire situation in Gaza, which has seen more than 200 people die of starvation.

Shehada, a senior fellow with the European Council on Foreign Relations, says “complicit countries” are participating in parachuting aid into Gaza, “not to address the hunger, not to end it, but to sustain it [and] cover it up” with “headline-grabbing gestures”.

Israel’s consistent policy for the past two decades has been to allow in fewer trucks than could provide the “minimal calorie count” Palestinians need to survive, in what Israelis have called putting Palestinians on a “starvation-plus diet”, Shehada said, referring to Israel’s air, land and sea blockade of Gaza since 2007.

He added that Israel’s intention is to make “the situation as miserable” as possible so that people have no choice but to leave Gaza, which “Israel now calls voluntary migration”.

“Starve to death if you stay or stay and get bombed to death, or leave of your own volition,” Shehada said.

As we reported earlier, a 15-year-old Palestinian boy was killed by a falling pallet during an airdrop of humanitarian aid in Gaza on Saturday, one of at least 23 Palestinians who have been crushed to death in a similar way since October 2023, according to Gaza’s Government Media Office.

_{Palestinians rush to the scene as air pallets, carrying humanitarian aid, parachute down after being dropped from a military plane over Nuseirat in the central Gaza Strip on Tuesday}

Israel’s war on Gaza has now killed at least 61,430 Palestinians

The latest daily casualties report by the Health Ministry in Gaza is in.

In a statement, it said the bodies of 61 people, including two from earlier attacks, had arrived in hospital across the Gaza Strip during the latest 24-hour reporting period. At least 35 were aid seekers. An additional 363 people, including 304 aid seekers, were wounded, the ministry added.

The figures bring the overall number of people killed in Israeli attacks since the start of the war to at least 61,430, with 153,213 wounded.