Palestine Action is set to be banned after a High Court judge refused to temporarily block it being designated as a terror group.

The co-founder of the group Huda Ammori had requested the court to temporarily block Labour from banning the group as a terrorist organisation under the Terrorism Act 2000.

MPs overwhelmingly voted in favour of Home Secretary Yvette Cooper's decision to proscribe the protest group under the Terrorism Act 2000 with the House of Lords backing the move.

Now, the move is set to come into force at midnight after a High Court judge refused Ammori’s bid for a temporary block.

Palestine Action is set to be banned as a group

Supporters of pro-Palestinian campaign organisation Palestine Action demonstrate outside London's High Court

Justice Chamberlain said: "The interim relief sought here would suspend the effect of an order which the Secretary of State considers is required in the public interest, and which has been affirmed by both Houses of Parliament.

"In those circumstances, other things being equal, there is a strong reason to allow the Secretary of State to make the order in what she considers to be a lawful manner."

He continued: "The proscription order will undoubtedly have severe effects on the claimant and many others. The exercise of the power in respect of a group such as Palestine Action may also have wider consequences for the way the public understands the concept of ‘terrorism’ and for public confidence in the regime of the 2000 Act.

"It is not, however, the court’s function to comment on the wisdom of the use of the power in the case."

Supporters of pro-Palestinian campaign protested outside the Royal Courts

Protesters meeting outside the courthouse

Friday’s hearing comes after an estimated £7million worth of damage was caused to two Voyager planes at RAF Brize Norton on June 20, in an action claimed by Palestine Action.

Home Secretary Yvette Cooper announced plans to proscribe Palestine Action on June 23, stating that the vandalism of the two planes was "disgraceful" and that the group had a "long history of unacceptable criminal damage".

Justice Chamberlain said that an assessment on whether to ban the group had been made as early as March, and "preceded" the incident at RAF Brize Norton.

Four people were charged in connection with the incident.

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The group has accused Labour of complicity in what it says are Israeli war crimes in its ongoing bombardment of Gaza.

Israel has repeatedly denied committing genocide in its war in Gaza, which began after Palestinian militant group Hamas attacked Israel on October 7, 2023.

Ammori's lawyer Raza Husain said the proscription marked the first time Britain had sought to ban a group carrying out such direct action, describing it as "an ill-considered, discriminatory, authoritarian abuse of statutory power".

Destruction in North Gaza

It comes as least 20 Palestinians were killed on Friday in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza, according to local health officials, as President Donald Trump said he expected Hamas to respond to his "final proposal" for a ceasefire in Gaza in the next 24 hours.

Health officials at the Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, southern Gaza, said the Israeli military had carried out an airstrike on a tent encampment west of the city around 2am., killing 15 Palestinians displaced by nearly two years of war.

Five were killed in northern Jabalia, medics said. The Israeli military had no immediate comment.