{"id":514908,"date":"2026-04-05T22:32:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T22:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/514908\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T22:32:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T22:32:11","slug":"uk-police-arrest-seven-protesters-near-raf-base-used-by-us-israel-palestine-conflict-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/514908\/","title":{"rendered":"UK police arrest seven protesters near RAF base used by US | Israel-Palestine conflict News"},"content":{"rendered":"

The activists were protesting the alleged use of the RAF base as a departure point for US aircraft involved in the US-Israel war on Iran.<\/p>\n

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British police have arrested seven people on suspicion of supporting the banned group Palestine Action at a protest near a Royal Air Force (RAF) air base in eastern England used by United States forces.<\/p>\n

The five men and two women arrested at a peace encampment just outside the Lakenheath airbase had gathered with other activists on Sunday to protest the alleged use of the base as a departure point for US aircraft involved in the US-Israeli war on Iran.<\/p>\n

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The Lakenheath Alliance for Peace, which organised the protest, said the seven had been arrested wearing clothing with the message: \u201cWe oppose genocide, we support Palestine Action.\u201d<\/p>\n

Police said the protesters had been arrested \u201con suspicion of supporting a proscribed organisation\u201d.<\/p>\n

Prime Minister Keir Starmer\u2019s Labour government banned Palestine Action as a \u201cterrorist\u201d organisation last year, making it a criminal offence to belong to or support the group.<\/p>\n

In February, a court<\/a> ruled the ban was \u201cdisproportionate\u201d and interfered with the right to free speech. But the government has appealed, and the ban remains in effect in the meantime.<\/p>\n

More than 2,700 people have been arrested and hundreds charged over rallies in support of the group, according to protest organisers Defend Our Juries.<\/p>\n

Police said in a statement on the latest arrests that they had a duty to enforce the law \u201cas it currently stands, not as it might be in the future\u201d.<\/p>\n

Two protesters were also arrested on Saturday at Lakenheath and charged with obstructing public thoroughfares, police said.<\/p>\n

US President Donald Trump has railed against Starmer for what he calls insufficient support in the US-Israel war on Iran<\/a>, straining the countries\u2019 longtime alliance.<\/p>\n

The United Kingdom has authorised the US<\/a> to use British military bases to carry out \u201cdefensive\u201d operations against Iran and protect the vital Strait of Hormuz, through which about 20 percent of the world\u2019s oil passes in peacetime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The activists were protesting the alleged use of the RAF base as a departure point for US aircraft…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":514909,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[591,59,57,58,590,50,288,229,3283,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-514908","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-kingdom","8":"tag-europe","9":"tag-gb","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-greatbritain","12":"tag-israel-palestine-conflict","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-police","15":"tag-politics","16":"tag-protests","17":"tag-uk","18":"tag-united-kingdom","19":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=514908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514908\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/514909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=514908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=514908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=514908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}