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UK Lawyers Report Roger Waters to Counterterrorism Police for Supporting Palestine Action Terrorist Group
Former Pink Floyd bassist and cofounder Roger Waters on stage in Italy. Photo: Reuters/Mirko Fava
An organization of lawyers who support Israel in the United Kingdom has reported former Pink Floyd bassist and cofounder Roger Waters to counterterrorism police in the UK for expressing support for the newly proscribed terrorist group Palestine Action, it was announced on Sunday.
The ban against Palestine Action went into effect on Saturday, after a judge denied a request to delay the UK government from proscribing it as a terror group. Palestine Action uses direct action, mainly targeting Israeli arms companies since the start of the Israel-Hamas war. Under the UK’s Terrorism Act 2000, being a member of or expressing support for the group is now a criminal offense that could lead to up to 14 years in prison.
On Saturday night, Waters, 81, posted a video on social media of himself saying he supports Palestine Action “and I always will because that is the right thing to do.” He claimed Palestine Action is a “great organization” that is non-violent in any way, and also displayed a handwritten sign that accused the UK Parliament of being “corrupted by agents of a genocidal foreign power.”
Waters has been a longtime critic of Israel and supporter of the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement. He has also defended the US-designated terrorist organization Hamas for orchestrating the deadly massacre across southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023.
UK Lawyers for Israel (UKLFI) has alleged that Waters is in breach of the Terrorism Act 2000 for expressing support for Palestine Action on Saturday. The pro-Israel organization noted that even if the musician was outside the UK when he posted the video, rules of the Terrorist Act still apply to him as a British citizen in accordance with section 17 of the Terrorism Act 2006.
“Palestine Action have been anything but a non-violent organization, using sledgehammers to smash windows and machinery, and causing millions of pounds of damage over the past few years in order to intimidate the public and certain companies, and to advance their own ideological cause,” UKLFI Director Caroline Turner said in a released statement. “Their activities fell squarely within the definition of Terrorism under the Act. We hope that the police will act in this case and investigate [Waters’] ill-judged words and actions.”
The UK government moved to ban Palestine Action after the group claimed responsibility for an estimated £7 million ($8.2 million) worth of damage that was caused to planes last month at the Royal Air Force Brize Norton air station in Oxfordshire. British Home Secretary Yvette Cooper announced the move to proscribe Palestine Action after the incident and called damage to two military aircrafts “disgraceful.” Cooper claimed Palestine Action had a “long history of unacceptable criminal damage.”
On Saturday, Metropolitan Police arrested 29 people for protesting in London’s Parliament Square in support of the banned group. Police said the arrested individuals were being held on suspicion of criminal offenses under the Terrorism Act 2000, according to the BBC.
Palestine Action is reportedly the first direct action protest group to be banned under the Terrorism Act. Other organizations banned in the UK include al Qaeda, Islamic State (ISIS), Hezbollah and the far-right group National Action. Palestine Action cofounder Huda Ammori will seek permission for a judicial review to call off the ban during a hearing scheduled for July 21.
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After False Dawns, Gazans Hope Trump Will Force End to Two-Year-Old War
Palestinians walk past a residential building destroyed in previous Israeli strikes, after Hamas agreed to release hostages and accept some other terms in a US plan to end the war, in Nuseirat, central Gaza Strip October 4, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Mahmoud Issa
Exhausted Palestinians in Gaza clung to hopes on Saturday that US President Donald Trump would keep up pressure on Israel to end a two-year-old war that has killed tens of thousands and displaced the entire population of more than two million.
Hamas’ declaration that it was ready to hand over hostages and accept some terms of Trump’s plan to end the conflict while calling for more talks on several key issues was greeted with relief in the enclave, where most homes are now in ruins.
“It’s happy news, it saves those who are still alive,” said 32-year-old Saoud Qarneyta, reacting to Hamas’ response and Trump’s intervention. “This is enough. Houses have been damaged, everything has been damaged, what is left? Nothing.”
GAZAN RESIDENT HOPES ‘WE WILL BE DONE WITH WARS’
Ismail Zayda, 40, a father of three, displaced from a suburb in northern Gaza City where Israel launched a full-scale ground operation last month, said: “We want President Trump to keep pushing for an end to the war, if this chance is lost, it means that Gaza City will be destroyed by Israel and we might not survive.
“Enough, two years of bombardment, death and starvation. Enough,” he told Reuters on a social media chat.
“God willing this will be the last war. We will hopefully be done with the wars,” said 59-year-old Ali Ahmad, speaking in one of the tented camps where most Palestinians now live.
“We urge all sides not to backtrack. Every day of delay costs lives in Gaza, it is not just time wasted, lives get wasted too,” said Tamer Al-Burai, a Gaza City businessman displaced with members of his family in central Gaza Strip.
After two previous ceasefires — one near the start of the war and another earlier this year — lasted only a few weeks, he said; “I am very optimistic this time, maybe Trump’s seeking to be remembered as a man of peace, will bring us real peace this time.”
RESIDENT WORRIES THAT NETANYAHU WILL ‘SABOTAGE’ DEAL
Some voiced hopes of returning to their homes, but the Israeli military issued a fresh warning to Gazans on Saturday to stay out of Gaza City, describing it as a “dangerous combat zone.”
Gazans have faced previous false dawns during the past two years, when Trump and others declared at several points during on-off negotiations between Hamas, Israel and Arab and US mediators that a deal was close, only for war to rage on.
“Will it happen? Can we trust Trump? Maybe we trust Trump, but will Netanyahu abide this time? He has always sabotaged everything and continued the war. I hope he ends it now,” said Aya, 31, who was displaced with her family to Deir Al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip.
She added: “Maybe there is a chance the war ends at October 7, two years after it began.”
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Mass Rally in Rome on Fourth Day of Italy’s Pro-Palestinian Protests
A Pro-Palestinian demonstrator waves a Palestinian flag during a national protest for Gaza in Rome, Italy, October 4, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Claudia Greco
Large crowds assembled in central Rome on Saturday for the fourth straight day of protests in Italy since Israel intercepted an international flotilla trying to deliver aid to Gaza, and detained its activists.
People holding banners and Palestinian flags, chanting “Free Palestine” and other slogans, filed past the Colosseum, taking part in a march that organizers hoped would attract at least 1 million people.
“I’m here with a lot of other friends because I think it is important for us all to mobilize individually,” Francesco Galtieri, a 65-year-old musician from Rome, said. “If we don’t all mobilize, then nothing will change.”
Since Israel started blocking the flotilla late on Wednesday, protests have sprung up across Europe and in other parts of the world, but in Italy they have been a daily occurrence, in multiple cities.
On Friday, unions called a general strike in support of the flotilla, with demonstrations across the country that attracted more than 2 million, according to organizers. The interior ministry estimated attendance at around 400,000.
Italy’s right-wing government has been critical of the protests, with Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni suggesting that people would skip work for Gaza just as an excuse for a longer weekend break.
On Saturday, Meloni blamed protesters for insulting graffiti that appeared on a statue of the late Pope John Paul II outside Rome’s main train station, where Pro-Palestinian groups have been holding a protest picket.
“They say they are taking to the streets for peace, but then they insult the memory of a man who was a true defender and builder of peace. A shameful act committed by people blinded by ideology,” she said in a statement.
Israel launched its Gaza offensive after Hamas terrorists staged a cross border attack on October 7, 2023, killing some 1,200 people and taking 251 people hostage.
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Hamas Says It Agrees to Release All Israeli Hostages Under Trump Gaza Plan
Smoke rises during an Israeli military operation in Gaza City, as seen from the central Gaza Strip, October 2, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Dawoud Abu Alkas
Hamas said on Friday it had agreed to release all Israeli hostages, alive or dead, under the terms of US President Donald Trump’s Gaza proposal, and signaled readiness to immediately enter mediated negotiations to discuss the details.