Australia’s secret support for Israeli war on Gaza, through Pine Gap
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A report by Declassified Australia discusses the American Pine Gap surveillance base and its role in the Israeli war on Gaza.
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Pine Gap, US surveillance base. (WikiCommons)
A recent report by Declassified Australia discussed the American surveillance base, Pine Gap, in Australia, which gathers an enormous range of communications and electronic intelligence from the Israeli war on Gaza, stressing that this data is provided to the Israeli forces.
The website detailed that two large US satellites operated from the Pine Gap base, sending an enormous amount of intelligence data from the Middle East, Europe, and Africa to the base. It also confirmed that after collecting and analyzing communications and intelligence data for the US National Security Agency, the Pine Gap base is submitting the information to the Israeli army, amid its escalating brutal attack on the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.
“Pine Gap facility is monitoring the Gaza Strip and surrounding areas with all its resources, and gathering intelligence assessed to be useful to Israel,” a former Pine Gap employee has told Declassified Australia.
The website indicated that this is not the first time that this base has assisted the Israeli army with intelligence information.
Meanwhile, the United States of America continues to support the Israeli occupation in its aggression against the Gaza Strip, which has been ongoing for 29 days, under the pretext of “the right to self-defense,” as US President Joe Biden claimed that Israeli crimes “do not mean a violation of humanitarian and international laws."
US secret base in Gaza
Earlier this month, The Intercept reported that two months before the start of the Palestinian Resistance's Operation Al-Aqsa Flood, the Pentagon granted a multi-million dollar contract for the construction of facilities for US troops at a confidential base located in al-Naqab Desert, known by the codename Site 512.
Site 512, previously termed a "cooperative security location," a label meant for low-cost, minimal presence bases, has been applied to facilities capable of housing up to 1,000 troops, the report indicated on Friday.
According to The Intercept, Site 512 was not created to address the threat posed by the Palestinian Resistance, but rather to counter the danger presented by Iranian mid-range missiles.
However, when thousands of the Palestinian Resistance rockets were launched on October 7 toward illegal Israeli settlements and occupied cities, Site 512 remained inactive because its primary focus was monitoring Iran, which is over 700 miles away, the report pointed out.
Despite President Joe Biden's denial of plans to deploy US troops as part of the ongoing confrontation between the Palestinian Resistance and the Israeli occupation, a covert US military presence is in place and expanding, as indicated by government documents, the report revealed.
