Palestine Action: History will judge Britain for these draconian sentences Submitted by Barry Malone on Thu, 06/18/2026 - 21:40 Activists convicted over direct action against the UK's complicity in the Gaza genocide invite comparisons to the suffragettes before them Protesters hold a banner outside the Royal Courts of Justice in central London on 15 June 2026, amid a legal standoff between the government and Palestine Action (Carlos Jasso/AFP) On There are children in Gaza who shake when they hear that unmistakable buzzing sound, a buzzing sound that many of them have become horribly used to. It's the sound of Israeli drones, a foreboding hum that has become a daily soundtrack for an entire generation of traumatised Palestinian children. The machines are a particularly pernicious weapon in Israel's arsenal of ethnic extermination, capable of being modified for a variety of squalid purposes.