HUNDREDS of pro-Palestine protesters chanted “RAF shame on you” as they demanded an arms embargo with Israel outside an air base on Saturday.

Demonstrators held banners that said “end British military collaboration with Israel” and “61,000+ killed, 600 RAF spy flights” as a large Palestine flag was erected in front of a replica Hurricane fighter plane outside the entrance to RAF High Wycombe.

Addressing the rally, Palestinian Forum in Britain chairman Adnan Hmidan accused the RAF of being “a partner in collective punishment … the genocide against the people in Gaza.

“Every war plane that reaches Israel with British parts or British support makes this country complicit in the killing of children.”

Activist Andrew Feinstein said that more RAF spy planes have flown over Gaza than Israeli Air Force counterparts over the past 22 months.

The information they feed into Israeli forces’ “totally indiscriminate” bombing of the territory amounts to the RAF’s “active participation in a genocide,” he said.

No arrests were made at the protest organised by the Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC).

A PSC spokesman said: “On August 16, as part of our summer of action for Gaza, we will be surrounding RAF High Wycombe, drawing on the legacy of protest at air bases like Greenham Common, and showing the strength of the public demand for an arms embargo.”

Some 15,000 people demonstrated peacefully in support of the Palestinian cause in central London last weekend, with only one arrest, the Metropolitan Police said, adding that 522 were arrested “for an illegal show of support for Palestine Action on the same day.”

On Friday the force said that a further 60 people will be prosecuted for “showing support for the proscribed terrorist group Palestine Action” after earlier announcing the first three charges under the Terrorism Act relating to it.

On Saturday, Norwich police officers arrested 13 people at a protest in the city in support of Palestine Action on suspicion of the same breaches under Section 13 of the Terrorism Act.

Today, Home Secretary Yvette Cooper insisted that Palestine Action is more than “a regular protest group known for occasional stunts.”

Writing in the Observer, she said that it had claimed responsibility for incidents involving charges of violent disorder and aggravated burglary, prosecutors have assessed as having a “terrorism connection.”