(KUNA) -- Seven British anti-war protesters were arrested Monday after campaigners boarded a plane at a Scottish airport to search for US weapons being transported to Israel, police said. Two men and a woman were in custody after getting on what is understood to be a military plane at Prestwick Airport, in Scotland, in the early hours of this morning. Police confirmed a further four people, two men and two women, were also arrested at the airport.Anti-nuclear campaign group "Trident Ploughshares" said its activists had boarded a US plane while carrying out an investigation into the British Governments involvement in the transport of arms to Israel. The arrested protesters were expected to appear in court tomorrow.
Four people were arrested at the airport yesterday after breaking through security fencing and running onto the main runway, the police added. It follows protests last weekend when two flights carrying hazardous material were diverted to the Royal Air Force base of Mildenhall, in Suffolk, southern England. The UK Civil Aviation Authority (CAA), the body responsible for policing the transit of the flights through civilian airports, said yesterday that it had given permission for the two US flights to stop at Prestwick last weekend, but no others. "We have not issued permission for the carriage of any dangerous cargo to Israel," a spokesman for the CAA said.