PALESTINE Action will be proscribed as a terrorist organisation, the Home Secretary has said.
The action has been taken after the activist group claimed responsibility for breaking into RAF Brize Norton last week.
Yvette Cooper said "the disgraceful attack" was "the latest in a long history of unacceptable criminal damage committed by Palestine Action".
She said a draft proscription order will be laid in Parliament next week.
The ban under terror laws will make it a criminal offence to belong to or support the group, and will be punishable by up to 14 years in prison.
Footage posted online showed one person riding an electric scooter up to an Airbus Voyager air-to-air refuelling tanker and appearing to spray paint into its jet engine at Brize Norton.
The incident is being investigated by counter-terror police.
Saeed Taji Farouky, a member of the group, told Sky News the proscription was "completely irrational" and "without precedent". He branded it a "knee-jerk reaction from the Government".
Earlier on Monday, Baroness Shami Chakrabarti expressed concerns plans to proscribe the group "may be an escalation too far".
Cooper said in a written ministerial statement: “The disgraceful attack on Brize Norton in the early hours of the morning on Friday 20 June is the latest in a long history of unacceptable criminal damage committed by Palestine Action.
“The UK’s defence enterprise is vital to the nation’s national security and this Government will not tolerate those that put that security at risk.”
The Home Secretary emphasised, however, that if parliament supports the proscription, the right to "peaceful protest" will remain unaffected.
"It is vitally important that those seeking to protest peacefully, including pro-Palestinian groups, those opposing the actions of the Israeli government, and those demanding changes in the UK's foreign policy, can continue to do so," she said.
A protest in support of Palestine Action has been taking place in London's Trafalgar Square.
The police confirmed that three people had been arrested - two for obstruction and one for a "racially aggravated public order offence".
