Jan 14, 2024
Pro-Palestinian activists protest at the gates of RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus, angry that the British base was used as a launch pad for strikes against the Houthi rebels in Yemen.
Several hundred protesters chant “Out with the Bases of Death” at the entrance to RAF Akrotiri, one of two bases Britain retains in Cyprus, a former colony. The iron gates to the heavily guarded compound, which sits on a peninsula on Cyprus’s southernmost tip, were locked with dozens of police present.
“We are here because we condemn the complicity of the UK government and using Cypriot land for their agenda to support Israel in their onslaught of Gaza,” says Natalia Olivia of the Cyprus-based United for Palestine.
Another activist, Nicos Panayiotou, calls the use of the British bases a disgrace. “They are using Cypriot land to do something every Cypriot is condemning,” he says.
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