A BBC building has been forced into lockdown after dozens of pro-Palestine protesters stormed into the premises.
Some 20 activists, brandishing Palestinian flags and chanting "Free Palestine", gained access to one of the broadcaster's buildings in Belfast - Studio A at Blackstaff House on Great Victoria Street.
The Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) was called - and later removed the protesters.
One BBC staff member who witnessed the incident said the protesters had initially approached security staff posing as tourists.
Some 20 activists, brandishing Palestinian flags and chanting 'Free Palestine', gained access to one of the broadcaster's buildings in Belfast
BBC
They asked to visit the building, and were refused entry - but then, as a staff member was leaving, they rushed through a pedestrian gate.
BBC News reported that the crowd gained entry to a studio through a fire door.
It comes just a few weeks after a similar protest erupted outside Broadcasting House, the BBC's London headquarters.
Back then, pro-Palestine vandals smashed office windows in a demonstration against the broadcaster's "complicity" in the "genocide of Palestinians" through its alleged "entrenched pro-Israel bias".
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It comes just a few weeks after a similar protest erupted outside Broadcasting House, the BBC's London headquarters
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Organisers Palestine Action claimed that "for years, the BBC has consistently minimised Israel's violence against Palestinians while amplifying the narratives of the oppressors, perpetuating a deadly cycle of misinformation and false equivalency".
That in itself followed a blood-red paint demonstration at Broadcasting House just one week after Hamas's October 7 terror attacks on Israel.
Again, the group sprayed the building with blood-red paint and claimed its coverage of Israel "has been complicit in manufacturing consent for the occupation's genocide of Palestinians".
The protests follow a damning report last November which revealed that pro-Palestine activists are training "cells" of protesters to "disrupt, damage and destroy" Israel-linked targets across the UK.
Palestine Action was caught running several 'direct action training days' in a bid to bring Britons together to 'bring down Israel'
REUTERSPalestine Action, the group behind the London BBC protests, was caught running several "direct action training days" in a bid to bring Britons together to "bring down Israel".
As part of the training, activists hoping to get together and form protest groups are told to organise in groups of "three to five" trusted people, use burner phones, carry out reconnaissance undercover and pay with cash for sledgehammers.
Palestine Action's training manual says: "Once you've got your cell together, come up with a name... This can be named after a Palestinian freedom fighter, a play on taking action against the war machine, or anything else that's appropriate."
GB News has approached the PSNI for more information about today's incident.
