Pro-Palestinian activists say they damaged planes on a UK air force base

British constabulary accidental they are searching for suspects aft pro-Palestinian activists claimed to person breached into a Royal Air Force Base and damaged 2 planes with reddish paint

LONDON -- British constabulary are searching for suspects aft pro-Palestinian activists claimed to person breached into a Royal Air Force Base and damaged 2 planes with reddish paint, officials said Friday.

The radical Palestine Action said 2 members entered RAF Brize Norton connected Wednesday and utilized electrical scooters to attack the Voyager jets, which are utilized for air-to-air refueling.

The duo sprayed reddish overgarment into the planes’ turbine engines with repurposed occurrence extinguishers and caused further harm with crowbars, according to the group, which released video footage appearing to amusement an idiosyncratic attack a pitchy and spray overgarment into the engine.

The activists near the basal without being detained, Palestine Action said.

The radical said successful a connection that “despite publically condemning the Israeli government, Britain continues to nonstop subject cargo, alert spy planes implicit Gaza and refuel US/Israeli combatant jets.” It called the U.K. “an progressive subordinate successful the Gaza genocide and warfare crimes crossed the Middle East.”

Britain's Ministry of Defense confirmed the incident, saying: “We powerfully condemn this vandalism of Royal Air Force assets.”

Planes from Brize Norton, 70 miles (112 kilometers) northwest of London, regularly alert to RAF Akrotiri successful Cyprus, Britain’s main aerial basal for operations successful the Middle East. The U.K. has sent much Typhoon combatant jets and Voyager tankers to Cyprus since the Israel-Iran war started a week agone for what Prime Minister Keir Starmer called “contingency support.”

Iran has threatened to onslaught U.S., French and British bases successful the portion if those countries assistance Israel fend disconnected Iranian strikes.

Thames Valley Police said successful a connection that it had “received a study of radical gaining entree to RAF Brize Norton and causing transgression damage.”

Officers were moving with unit astatine the basal and the Ministry of Defense Police to apprehension the perpetrators, the section said.

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