A transport aircraft arrives at the UK’s RAF Akrotiri air base near Limassol, Cyprus, March 5, 2026
Major protests to take place as campaigners warn against war on Iran
MAJOR demonstrations will be held outside the US embassy and at RAF Fairford today amid growing fears Donald Trump’s war on Iran will kill hundreds of thousands of people.
Campaigners warned that Britain was at a “dangerous turning point” as the US-Israel bombings of Tehran continues to escalate.
PM Sir Keir Starmer’s claims the US can only use British bases for so-called “defensive” bombings will be branded “nonsense” by Your Party leader Jeremy Corbyn MP, who is set to speak outside the embassy in central London.
Stop the War Coalition national convener Lindsey German said: “We are at such a dangerous turning point and must redouble our efforts to oppose Trump’s wars, to call for an end to our government’s support for them and to stop arming and backing Israel.
“Keir Starmer knows the US and Israel are waging an illegal war on Iran, but the fact is Britain is deeply involved.
“That’s why this is such an important demonstration in building a movement in this country as strong as the Palestine movement, as strong as the opposition to the Iraq war — one that rejects a world based on barbarism and Trump’s gangster imperialism and instead builds one based on peace and justice.”
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Displaced Palestinians in the Jabalia al-Nazla area in northern Gaza are trying to survive in makeshift tents set up among the rubble of destroyed homes on February 09, 2026. [Saeed M. M. T. Jaras – Anadolu Agency]
Four Palestinians, including a child, were killed and another wounded Friday by Israeli gunfire and shelling that targeted areas in Gaza City and the northern Gaza Strip, in a new violation of a ceasefire in force since Oct. 10, Anadolu reports.
Ismail Aql, 12, was killed after Israeli forces opened fire near the Khalifa School in northern Gaza, which shelters displaced civilians.
Another Palestinian, Ayman Ahmed al-Nabih, 54, was killed in Israeli shelling that targeted the Tuffah neighborhood in eastern Gaza City. His body was transferred to the Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital in the city center.
Witnesses told Anadolu that Israeli artillery shelled the area where al-Nabih was present, which lies outside the Israeli army’s deployment zone under the ceasefire agreement.
In the Tuffah neighborhood, 22-year-old Rizq Iyad al-Sharafa was wounded when an Israeli drone targeted a gathering of civilians near the al-Sharafa roundabout, east of al-Mahatta Park, according to a medical source.
Earlier, Abdelwahab Asaad Qanbour, 32, was killed in Israeli shelling that targeted the Shujaiya neighborhood, east of Gaza City. His body was also transferred to Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital.
Witnesses said an Israeli drone struck Qanbour while he was near Salah al-Din Street in Shujaiya, in an area outside Israeli troop deployment zones.
Since the Gaza ceasefire took effect, Israeli violations involving shelling and gunfire have killed 636 Palestinians and wounded 1,704 others as of Thursday, according to Palestinian sources.
The deal was reached after two years of a genocidal war launched by Israel on Oct. 8, 2023. The war left more than 72,000 Palestinians dead and 172,000 wounded, while destroying roughly 90% of Gaza’s civilian infrastructure, with reconstruction costs estimated by the United Nations at about $70 billion.
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Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer speaks to soldiers at the RAF base in Akrotiri, Cyprus, during his three-day trip to the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, and Cyprus, December 10, 2024
JEREMY CORBYN’S Bill demanding parliamentary oversight of the use of British bases for foreign countries’ wars is urgent and necessary.
Our craven Prime Minister has already given the United States permission to use British bases in the Middle East for its war of aggression against Iran.
Reversing that is essential to keep Britain out of a war we did not choose and which most British people oppose. It is also the most immediate practical step we can take to limit the escalation of the war we are already seeing across the Middle East.
Donald Trump was emboldened to start war with Iran because no US ally was prepared to stand up to his illegal aggression against Venezuela at the start of the year.
Having kidnapped the leader of one country, he has now killed the leader of another; still our government won’t acknowledge that the Trump White House is the biggest threat to peace and stability worldwide.
War crimes of the worst sort are normalised by the refusal to hold perpetrators to account. Having watched his allies make excuse after excuse for the mass murder he has inflicted on Gaza, Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu fears no retaliation for incinerating 150 schoolgirls in Iran.
This impunity is dangerous: it leads the US and Israel to conclude they can do what they like. That means more atrocities and more wars.
Turning our bases into targets by allowing the US to use them to strike Iran increases the risk the war will spread.
And escalation is inherent in this war, started without defined aims or an exit strategy.
So poorly planned, in fact, that Trump himself admits the US didn’t make arrangements to evacuate its embassies in the region because “it happened very quickly” — a poor excuse in a conflict you started yourself. US Senator Elizabeth Warren, after a classified briefing, is blunt: “The Trump administration has no plan in Iran.”
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US Pentagon Secretary Pete Hegseth speaks during a press conference on US military action in Iran, at the Pentagon in Washington, DC, on March 2, 2026. (Photo by Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images)
“We are a rogue murder state now, and positively proud of it,” said one historian.
US Pentagon Secretary Pete Hegseth’s dismissal on Monday of what he called “stupid rules of engagement” in the illegal war against Iran amounted to an invitation for American and allied forces to commit war crimes, human rights organizations and other critics warned.
Hegseth’s remarks came during a press conference alongside the top US general, Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Dan Caine. The Pentagon chief boasted that the US is “unleashing the most lethal and precise air power campaign in history,” “all on our terms with maximum authorities,” unbound by “stupid rules of engagement,” and undeterred by “what so-called international institutions say”—an apparent reference to the United Nations.
Human Rights Watch (HRW) said in a statement Monday that “these remarks are concerning in light of Hegseth’s actions in the past year that have weakened US military posts and mechanisms intended to ensure compliance with international humanitarian law, also known as the laws of war.”
“Rules of engagement are official military directives that tell military forces when, where, how, and against whom force may be used. They must always be in accordance with the laws of war,” said HRW. “Hegseth abolished ‘civilian environment teams’ and other mechanisms intended to limit harm to civilians during operations. The 2026 National Defense Strategy omitted references to civilian protection and the Defense Department rolled back restrictions on its use of antipersonnel landmines and moved ahead with cluster munitions procurement despite these weapons’ foreseeable immediate and long-term harm to civilians.”
“Human Rights Watch will endeavor to assess whether these Defense Department actions unlawfully increase the risk of harm to civilians during US military operations,” the group added. “US civilian and military officials should reaffirm US compliance with the laws of war and restore the personnel and oversight structures that help protect civilians during armed conflict.”
Historian Seth Cotlar wrote on social media that Hegseth’s comments underscored that “we are a rogue murder state now, and positively proud of it.”
The Pentagon chief’s remarks came days after a girls’ school in Iran was bombed, allegedly by US or Israeli forces. The US Central Command said it was “looking into” the attack, which killed 165 people—most of them girls between the ages of 7 and 12. The Guardiannotes that the school was “adjacent to a cluster of buildings that form the local Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) barracks and support buildings.”
An Al Jazeerainvestigation concluded the school strike was likely “deliberate.”
When Hegseth says "no stupid rules of engagement," this is what he means.
The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor said in a statement over the weekend that “any deliberate attack on a school or on civilians, as well as any indiscriminate or disproportionate attack that violates the principles of distinction and proportionality, constitutes a grave breach and may amount to a war crime where intent to target the school is established or where the attack is indiscriminate or disproportionate.”
Hegseth has previously derided limitations on US troops’ conduct overseas as “stupid.” During remarks to hundreds of generals last year, the Pentagon chief declared that we “untie the hands of our warfighters to intimidate, demoralize, hunt, and kill the enemies of our country.”
“We unleash overwhelming and punishing violence on the enemy,” Hegseth said at the time. “No more politically correct and overbearing rules of engagement.”
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Israeli settlers raided the Old City area of Hebron following Israel’s approval of a series of measures aimed at expanding its “oversight and control activities” in areas under the administration of the Palestinian Authority in West Bank on February 9, 2026. [Mamoun Wazwaz – Anadolu Agency]
The Adalah Center, a Haifa-based human rights organisation, has called on Israeli authorities to revoke a recent government decision on land settlement procedures in the occupied West Bank, warning that it may amount to a war crime.
In a letter addressed to the Israeli defence minister, the attorney general and other relevant legal and military authorities, Adalah demanded the cancellation of a decision issued on 15th February 2026. The directive instructs the commander of the Israeli army in the West Bank to enable land settlement procedures in Area C and to register approximately 15 per cent of unregistered land in the area as part of the process.
Dr Suhad Bishara, Adalah’s legal director, said the move serves the expansion of Israeli settlements, deepens annexation efforts and effectively imposes Israeli sovereignty over occupied territory. She argued that the decision aligns with coalition commitments made to the Religious Zionist Party and reflects positions publicly expressed by ministers including Bezalel Smotrich and Yisrael Katz.
Adalah contended that the measure violates core principles of international humanitarian law and warned that its implementation could constitute war crimes and crimes against humanity.
In her letter, Bishara said that land ownership settlement procedures are sovereign acts that produce long-term — and potentially permanent — changes to the legal and property regime in the West Bank, which is regarded under international law as occupied territory.
Israeli officials have not yet publicly responded to the letter.
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A transport aircraft arrives at the UK’s RAF Akrotiri air base near Limassol, Cyprus, March 5, 2026
