In the early hours of Friday, activists from the protest group Palestine Action infiltrated RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire. Using electric scooters, they navigated the vast airbase under the noses of unsuspecting security personnel. Brize Norton is a critical part of Britain’s defence infrastructure: a military Heathrow, used for trooping flights, freight and refuelling. The activists, who uploaded video footage of their raid to social media, subsequently vandalised two Voyager air-to-air refuelling tankers, damaging them with crowbars and spraying paint into the engine’s turbofans using adapted fire extinguishers. They claimed, nebulously, that their intention was to disrupt British military support for Israel.
