{"id":274767,"date":"2023-10-21T05:25:40","date_gmt":"2023-10-21T05:25:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=274767"},"modified":"2023-10-25T19:39:24","modified_gmt":"2023-10-25T19:39:24","slug":"uk-special-forces-preparing-to-aid-israel-in-efforts-rescue-hamas-hostages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=274767","title":{"rendered":"UK special forces preparing to aid Israel in efforts rescue Hamas hostages"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>American Military News \u2013 Oct 19, 2023<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>The\u00a0UK\u2019s\u00a0Special Air Squad is preparing to aid\u00a0Israel\u00a0in any potential attempt to rescue up to 10 British civilians being held by\u00a0Hamas\u00a0in\u00a0Gaza,\u00a0Britain\u2019s\u00a0i newspaper reported on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Several military sources told the newspaper that SAS personnel were working with members of the elite Israeli Sayeret Matkal force and US Delta Force on potential attempts to rescue more than 200 hostages of various nationalities believed to be held by\u00a0Hamas\u00a0in hideouts and tunnels.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is understood that events in southern\u00a0Israel\u00a0have triggered a change in the readiness of\u00a0UK\u00a0special forces,\u201d one source told the i.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAn SAS squadron on a training operation had last week finished its detachment several days early as part of unspecified deployment plans,\u201d the source added.<\/p>\n<p>UK\u00a0Foreign Secretary\u00a0James Cleverly\u00a0confirmed on Monday that the government believed as many as 10 British nationals were being held hostage in\u00a0Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>Only three hostage-rescue missions are believed to have been carried out by\u00a0UK\u00a0special forces since 2011, the i reported. They took place in\u00a0Kenya,\u00a0Nigeria\u00a0and\u00a0Yemen. Six intelligence-gathering deployments took place over the same period of time, including one in\u00a0Ukraine\u00a0prior to\u00a0Russia\u2019s\u00a0invasion last year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe way that\u00a0Hamas\u00a0is holding the hostages looks like they\u2019ve scattered them over the territory of\u00a0Gaza\u00a0very widely,\u201d\u00a0Justin Crump, a military veteran and chief executive of security and intelligence group Sibylline, told the newspaper<\/p>\n<p>He added that\u00a0Hamas\u00a0wants to keep the hostages alive and will be giving them food and water, and taking care of their medical needs, because they are considered \u201cbargaining chips\u201d in any negotiations with\u00a0Israel.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/americanmilitarynews.com\/2023\/10\/uk-special-forces-preparing-to-aid-israel-in-efforts-rescue-hamas-hostages\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British SAS may assist Israel in operations to free captives held by Hamas, some of who may be UK citizens<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[118,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-274767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-7-10-gaza-war","category-Israel_Anti-Semitism_Zionism_and_US-UK_allies"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=274767"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":274768,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274767\/revisions\/274768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=274767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=274767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=274767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}