The Metropolitan Police chief said he is “shocked and frustrated” by a planned protest in support of the Palestine action in London on Monday.
Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley said that while the right to protest is essential, “the actions in support of such a group go beyond what most would see as legitimate protest.”
It is understood that it is understood that the Interior Minister prepares a written statement to present before Parliament on Monday to prostrate the group, effectively the brand a terrorist organization.
On Friday, Palestine’s action activists broke into the RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire and sprayed two military planes with red painting in protest for the support of the United Kingdom to Israel on the war in Gaza.
The planned protest in the center of London has the support of 35 groups, including other other pro-plantations, The Stop The War Coalition, Jage and Muslim Engagement and Development (MEND).
When describing the action of Palestine as an “organized extremist criminal group,” said Sir Mark that until the group is banned, with the legal power to avoid the protest bar.
“However, we have the power to impose conditions to prevent disorder, damage and serious interruption for the community,” he added, saying that “the infractions of the law will be robustly.”
The Metropolitan Police have imposed the conditions of the Public Order Law on the protest of the Metropolitan Police.
This means that the protest can only take place between 12:00 and 15:00, and protesters cannot meet in the “exclusion zone” that covers a large part of Westminster, which extends from Millbank to Whitehall.
In X, Palestine Action confirmed that the protest would take place at 12:00 in Trafalgar Square, outside the exclusion zone. The protest was expected to take place outside the Parliament, before the exclusion zone was announced.
In a previous publication on social networks, Palestine Action said that “the political establishment haste to call us” terrorists “, while promulgating the worst crimes against humanity.”
One of the group members, Saeed Taji Farouky, told the BBC on Saturday that the government plans to prostrate the group was “absurd.”
He said that the movement “wears the very basic concepts of British democracy and the rule of law” and added: “It is something that everyone should be terrified.”
Palestine’s action has been involved in activities that have predominantly attacked arms companies since the beginning of the current war in Gaza, and the group assumed responsibility in May of the bottling of an American military plane in Ireland.
Farauky said that the “reason to be of the group is to break the supply chain to genocide” and said that Friday’s incident was an “climbing in tactics because the genocide has increased.”
Israel has strongly denied accusations of genocide related to the current war in Gaza.
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer described the incident at RAF Brize Norton as “Unfortunate.” The anti -terrorism police are investigating theft at the base.
Somester in Westminster, including the former Secretary of the Interior, sail Braverman, who said it was “absolutely the right decision.”
Others have reacted critically, including independent deputy Zarah Sultana, who remembered protests against the 2003 war in Iraq: “One million people marched against the illegal war in Iraq and were fine. Now the same script is developing.”
Amnesty International of the United Kingdom said Friday that he was “deeply concerned about the use of anti -terrorist powers to go to protests.”
The human rights activist and the Labor Baroness, Shami Chakrabarti, said she shared the opinions of Amnesty International that the group’s proscription would be a “serious step” and could be “an escalation too far.”
He told the BBC Radio 4 program that he was worried that anyone associated freely with the group, including those who attend meetings or support the organization, could face criminal charges if they are outlined.
Regular protests related to the war in Gaza have been held in London since Israel began a military campaign to destroy Hamas in response to cross -border attack 2023, in which some 1,200 people were killed and another 251.
Since then, more than 55,000 people have been killed in Gaza, including more than 15,000 children, according to the Hamas Ministry of Health of the territory.
