Matt Kennard –DeclassifiedUK.com Jan 18, 2024
- British defence minister said in November UK flights were providing “surveillance support to Israel, including preventing the transfer of weapons to terrorist groups”
- But the Ministry of Defence has since said surveillance flights are solely to help locate the two British hostages still in Gaza
The UK military has flown 50 surveillance missions over Gaza since December, it can be revealed.
The flights have taken off from Britain’s controversial air base on Cyprus, RAF Akrotiri, and averaged around one a day since the beginning of December.
When asked the UK government refused to provide the number of spy flights, but Declassified has analysed flight tracking records.
The British plane used is the Shadow R1, which is known as an intelligence, surveillance, target acquisition and reconnaissance (ISTAR) aircraft.
The Shadow R1 is operated by the UK military’s No.14 Squadron, which is based at RAF Waddington in Lincolnshire, east England.
The UK military recently awarded a £110m contract to the plane’s manfacturer, US weapons company Raytheon, to update the aircraft and increase the British fleet from six to eight.
The British flights began on 3 December when two R1s flew over Gaza. The flights have continued nearly daily up until now, with around half the days featuring two flights. On 3 January, the British sent an R1 over Gaza three times.
The flights appear to last around six hours.
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Intelligence
The UK Ministry of Defence announced on 2 December that it would begin surveillance flights over Gaza “in support of the ongoing hostage rescue activity”.
“The safety of British nationals is our utmost priority,” the department said. “Surveillance aircraft will be unarmed, do not have a combat role, and will be tasked solely to locate hostages”.
It added: “Only information relating to hostage rescue will be passed to the relevant authorities responsible for hostage rescue.”
But the extraordinary number of flights, and the fact that they started nearly two months after the hostages were taken, raises suspicions that the UK is not collecting intelligence solely for this purpose.
Foreign secretary David Cameron confirmed last week that Hamas holds just two British hostages.
Israeli forces are also on the ground in Gaza, and notoriously have wide-ranging surveillance capabilities in the territory. It is unclear what Britain’s R1s can add to the hostage rescue mission.
Change in role
The British government previously said its surveillance assets had a more wide-ranging role for Israel.
On 7 November, defence minister James Heappey told parliament that British “flights have provided surveillance support to Israel, including preventing the transfer of weapons to terrorist groups, and to wider regional security.”
Heappey also said the surveillance flights were to “improve our situational awareness in the region and provide assurance to our partners”, assumed to mean Israel.
Heappey refused, however, to disclose the number of flights Britain had made over Gaza. “For operational security reasons, I cannot comment on the specifics of this activity,” he said.
A week after the 7 October attack, the UK government announced military units would be deployed to the eastern Mediterranean “to support Israel, reinforce regional stability and prevent escalation”. The military package included P8 surveillance aircraft alongside other reconnaissance assets.
Declassified has previously revealed the US spy force, 1st Expeditionary Reconnaissance Squadron, is permanently deployed at the British base on Cyprus alongside 129 American airmen.
Declassified also reported on a leaked US cable in which a UK official said American spy flights from Britain’s Cyprus base “have become routine” and the “intelligence product” is often “passed to third party governments”, which is likely to include Israel.
The UK Ministry of Defence and US Department of Defense both refused to comment to Declassified on what intelligence they are sharing with the Israelis.
The UK sends its jet fighters on 3000 mile round trip sorties from Cyprus to Houtie Tootie Land. This is fought with danger for the crews who fly these missions, because they only have minutes to hit their vacant targets.
Mean while, £7,000,000,000s worth of Aircraft carriers sits in Portsmouth Harbour doing nothing.
The bankrupt Nazi regime can’t afford to run these rust buckets, but it’s even worse. The US Nazi regime can only afford to run 4 of its 11 carriers, so this means they’ve also mothballed many other ships who would normally escort the other 7 carriers. And the other members of NATO won’t supply support ships for our carriers, and the UK built two carriers at a cost of £700,000,000 billion, but didn’t build the ships to escort their carriers.
This illustrates the dire financial position of Nazi UK, and the deep fractures within NATO.
Keep in mind that US and UK attacks on Yemen are illegal, and as such, are war crimes, but hey, since when did international law ever worry the Nazis.
Aircraft carrier fiasco as the UK REFUSES to deploy either of its £3.5bn warships to help tackle Ye… https://mol.im/a/12998487 via https://dailym.ai/android
ZOGUK doing what it does BEST:
Aiding & Abetting Juice Terrorism
Thesis (Israel/NATO)
Antithesis (OIC/BRICS/Hamas/Houthi/Isis)
Synthesis (WEF Agenda 2030/WWIII)
Of course both ‘sides’ are managed by the same synagogue syndicate of bankers/rabbis/oligarchs.
Not only the UK. Since the sheep of the World were told by the MSM .. that a music festival was attacked .. you could see on public app that militairy planes of 29 nations, including Russia .. flew in and out of Israel since. Nobody knows what’s going on there ..
Obviously they lead with an image of some hi tek drone.. because there’s no one left in the RAF who can actually fly a plane… they could probably crash a harrier or euro potty or sit in a non functional F35… or perhaps use a flying carpet… obtained in Birmingham .. at a push
In between the gossiping…and zoom calls… and shopping…
300,000.
10,000,000.
^ The number of homeless in the jew-k and the jew-sa. It’s so nice to be a “citizen” ain’t it?
According to the “internet”, some state in america (minnesota?) is now making it literally illegal to be homeless (17% of their “citizens” are homeless). The solution? Push them into native american style “reservations” — out of sight, out of mind.
The above, if you don’t see/get it shows that your owners have zero interest in your welfare (as if you thought they did).
Don’t forget to vote…
Or…
“The City of London’s military has flown over 50 spy missions over (oil proximate) Gaza in support of the Rothschild sponsored colony…”
Carl Jones–Commie America cannot keep its military going because it is full of apes and perverts
whats this idiot doing talking about natzis ?