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London police have made the latest in a series of arrests related to the repeated Gaza and Hamas protests in recent weeks, now arresting two women on suspicion of terrorism offences for wearing prints of paragliders stuck to their clothing at a rally.
Two women, aged 29 and 44 years old surrendered themselves to police and were arrested “on suspicion of inviting support for a proscribed organisation” under the Terrorism Act after the Metropolitan Police published their images in an appeal for information. The pair are being held at a police station, the force said.
Images of four people had been published by police on the 27th relating to “Pro-Palestine” protests on October 14th and 21st, with three of those being women wearing print-outs of paragliders taped to their clothes. The fourth was a man carrying a “I fully support Hamas” placard.
The paraglider has rapidly become a symbol alluding to the October 7th Hamas attack against Israel, one of the most deadly terrorist attacks in history, in which over 1,400 residents of and visitors to Israel were killed, some in the most brutal circumstances. Paragliders were used by Hamas terrorists to cross undetected into Israeli territory in large numbers, launching attacks against civilians once they landed.
Two people remain outstanding from the police’s appeal. In an update issued overnight, the force described the third woman who has not yet come forward as “dark skinned, wearing light brown trousers and a long-sleeved red top. She initially had a blue denim jacket tied around her waist and later put this on over her red top. She is wearing a light blue medical face mask and a dark scarf or bandana around her head. She also has a dark red shoulder bag.”
Commander Dominic Murphy, head of the Met’s Counter Terrorism Command, said of the appeal: “If the people in the pictures recognise themselves, I urge them to come forward so we can speak with them.”
The man waving the pro-Hamas placard is described as: “He has short hair, light skin and is wearing a blue jacket with a light top underneath, a light stripy scarf around his neck, and light trousers or jeans.”
Hamas is what the UK government calls a proscribed organisation in Britain, which is to say supporting it is banned. This is a reasonably recent development, it was only in 2021 this ban was put into force, and it only applies to the so-called military wing of Hamas, meaning support for what the British government calls “the so called political [wing]” remains legal.
Hamas is not the only proscribed group in the UK that focuses on the destruction of Israel: the British government also bans the Abdallah Azzam Brigades, the Abu Nidal Organisation, Al Qa’ida, Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis, Hizballah, and Palestinian Islamic Jihad.
The paraglider-clothing women are not the only arrests made in London over the recent wave of Gaza protests. On Sunday, two women were arrested on suspicion of inciting racial hatred after another similar appeal, with London broadcaster LBC reporting they had been filmed chanting about “an ancient massacre of Jewish people in the Middle East” referenced in the Koran at the Battle of Khaybar in 628AD at a protest on Saturday.
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