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REVEALED: UK MILITARY HAS FLOWN 200 SPY MISSIONS OVER GAZA IN SUPPORT OF ISRAEL

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British spy planes have recorded up to 1,000 hours of footage over Gaza, including from the day Israel assassinated three UK aid workers.

A British Shadow R1 spy plane in flight. (Photo: RAF)
  • UK government refuses to give details of spy flights but Declassified independently obtains information
  • British spy plane landed at Israel’s major air force base, Nevatim, in February
  • UK’s Shadow R1 spy plane can supply intelligence for ‘target acquisition’
  • ICC could investigate British ministers over complicity in war crimes

The Royal Air Force (RAF) has flown 200 surveillance flights over Gaza since December, it can be revealed.

The UK government refused to give any details about the flights which began on December 3 but Declassified has independently constructed a timeline.

The extraordinary number of missions over the past five months works out at well over a flight per day and continues as Israel invades the supposedly “safe” southern city of Rafah.

March saw the highest number of British spy flights over Gaza with 44 missions.

The new information comes amid speculation that the International Criminal Court (ICC) is set to issue arrest warrants for Benjamin Netanyahu and his ministers. British officials could also face prosecution for complicity in war crimes, including defence secretary Grant Shapps.

All the British spy flights have taken off from RAF Akrotiri, the UK’s sprawling air base on Cyprus, and have been in the air for around six hours. 

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Flightpath of a British Shadow R1 spy on its way to Gaza. (Screengrab: RadarBox)

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Britain’s threat to bomb pro-Palestine Houthis ‘poses serious threat to world peace

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BRITAIN’S threats to bomb the Yemeni Houthi movement for attacking Israeli-linked ships in the Red Sea “pose a serious threat to world peace” and is “completely irresponsible,” anti-war campaigners warned today.

Defence Secretary Grant Shapps said that the government would not hesitate to take “direct action” on the Iranian-backed forces after the US military said four boats from Houthi-controlled areas in Yemen fired at the Maersk Hangzhou and got within metres of the vessel.

Britain and the US were reportedly preparing a joint statement to issue a final warning to the Houthis.

Stop The War Coalition’s Lindsey German said that the action would be “another potential escalation” in the Middle East, warning that it is “the last thing we need.”

She told the Star: “We have got Israel bombing Gaza on a daily basis with terrible consequences and so far the war hasn’t spread further than Palestine, but the truth is the Israelis are threatening to launch attacks on Hezbollah in Lebanon.

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“People might wonder what British and US ships are doing in the Middle East and they have to realise they are contributing to a very dangerous situation which may lead to a regional war.”

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Greta Thunbeg hits out at government’s Rosebank oil field plans as ‘out of touch with reality’

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Climate activist Greta Thunberg speaking on the Pyramid Stage during the Glastonbury Festival at Worthy Farm in Somerset. Picture date: Saturday June 25, 2022.

INTERNATIONAL climate activist Greta Thunberg condemned the British government as “out of touch with reality” today as she joined protesters in London against the Rosebank oil field.

Campaigners gathered outside the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero against the proposed plans for the new site off the Shetland coast.

The plans were originally expected to get approved before parliamentary recess this month but have been delayed over climate concerns.

Ms Thunberg said that a decision by Energy Secretary Grant Shapps to approve oil and gas explorations at Britain’s largest site would be “deliberately destructive.”

The Swedish activist said: “How can the British government even consider pressing ahead with new drilling when we can see what the burning of fossil fuels is doing to the climate and to people?

“The extreme weather events being experienced around the world right now is just a taste of what’s to come if we don’t get off fossil fuels.”

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Grant Shapps brutally mocked for ‘invoicing’ Labour for damage caused by Just Stop Oil

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Just Stop Oil paint the Department for Energy Security & Net Zero
Just Stop Oil paint the Department for Energy Security & Net Zero

{Wow, what an nut Shapps is, that takes some effort} The Secretary of State for the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Grant Shapps, has been ridiculed after his latest political stunt spectacularly backfired.

After campaigners from the climate protest group Just Stop Oil sprayed orange paint onto the department for energy security and net zero’s headquarters in Westminster on Wednesday after its decision to issue more than 100 new oil and gas licences in the UK, Shapps decided to invoice the Labour Party for the damage to the building.

The Tory minister drew on a familiar baseless Tory attack line, posting a ridiculous letter on Twitter and claiming that Just Stop Oil was the ‘political wing of the Labour Party’.

The Tories have repeatedly tried to claim, incorrectly, that Just Stop Oil funds the Labour Party. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak previously made the claim which was fact checked and proven to be false by organisations such as Full Fact which wrote to the Prime Minister asking him to prove his claim.

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