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Israeli planes landed at 4 locations in UK since aggression on Gaza

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  • Source: Declassified UK
  • 1 Feb 2024 21:09
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At least six Israeli Air Force planes stopped by Britain since the Gaza bombardment began, but the UK government refuses to reveal what was on board.

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  • Declassified: IOF planes landed at 4 locations in Britain since Oct.7
    An RAF Typhoon fighter departing from RAF Akrotiri air base in 2022. (UK MOD)

The Israeli occupation has landed six planes in Britain since it began its illegal bombardment of Gaza in early October, according to reports by Declassified UK.

Since the United Kingdom's Ministry of Defense declined to provide any information, the actual figure is thought to be higher.

After the ICJ ruled it "plausible" that "Israel" was committing genocide in Gaza, this may implicate British politicians in complicity.

Declassified uncovered through flight data that Israeli Air Force (IAF) planes took off and landed at four separate British airports.

The first Israeli flight uncovered left from Glasgow Prestwick Airport in southwest Scotland on November 18, albeit its arrival does not appear to have been recorded.

The aircraft, IAF680, took off from Scotland just after 1 pm and arrived in "Beersheba", occupied Palestine, around 5 hours later.

There is no information on what sort of military plane it was, and the Ministry of Defense has declined to disclose any specifics. According to the website used by Declassified to track flights, the Israeli military plane "is present on our blocked aircraft list."

"Beersheba", in al-Naqab, is home to the IAF's "Nevatim" air base used by the US to deliver bombs and other ammunition to the Israeli occupation for its war on Gaza.

On December 2, an Israeli military plane went from Birmingham airport to "Nevatim" again in an aircraft believed to be a Boeing 707-300C, a cargo plane capable of carrying up to 189 people 

Over the next two weeks, two Israeli military aircraft flew out of Mildenhall, which houses 4,245 US military personnel, the second-greatest concentration of American forces in Britain.

The first of these IAF flights flew from Mildenhall to "Nevatim" on December 7, although the aircraft type was not revealed. On December 13, an IAF Boeing 707-300 flew from Mildenhall to the US Air Force facility in Dover, Delaware.

The Dover site houses the 436th Airlift Wing and is the Department of Defense's busiest and largest air freight port. The first shipment of US weaponry to "Israel" departed the Dover facility on October 10.

In that transfer, a commercial air cargo group with planes in "Israel" sent an airliner from "Tel Aviv" and upon landing in Dover was packed with “advanced weaponry” before heading back to "Nevatim". 

On December 25, an Israeli flight arrived from "Nevatim" to RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire, the RAF's main operations station west of London. The aircraft type was once again not revealed. The next day, the same aircraft flew from Brize Norton to Dover in the United States.

When contacted, an MoD representative informed Declassified that they could not give any information about foreign allies' military movements or operations, adding that "it is standard practice to routinely authorize requests for limited numbers of allies and partners to access the UK's air bases."

Declassified documents also revealed that on January 23, a US Air Force C-17 flew from "Nevatim" air base to Turkey, afterward Cyprus, and stopped in Ramstein before heading for its final destination of Dover base in the US.

The US Department of Defense declined to reveal what was on the flight, although "Nevatim" and Dover have been key points in the delivery of US armaments to "Israel" since the Gaza bombardment began.

UK conducted 50 espionage missions over Gaza for 'Israel'

According to Declassified UK, an investigation showed that the UK military has flown 50 espionage operations over Gaza since the beginning of December to help "Israel".

The information-collecting missions are carried out by Shadow R1 surveillance aircraft that take off from Britain's controversial Akrotiri air station in Cyprus.

Britain maintains two "Sovereign Base Areas" on Cyprus, Dhekelia in the east and Akrotiri in the west, which are enormous, highly covert military and intelligence complexes covering 3% of the island's geographical area and historically used for UK bombing missions in the Middle East and its complicity in the war on Gaza.

In early December, the UK's Defense Ministry announced it would start conducting surveillance flights over Gaza, occupied Palestine, and the Eastern Mediterranean, claiming that operations aim to locate sites of captives held by the Palestinian Resistance.

However, according to Declassified UK, 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."

One week after October 7, the UK government announced that it had increased its military presence in the Middle East by deploying two Royal Navy ships, spy hardware, and an additional 1,000 personnel “to support Israel, reinforce regional stability and prevent escalation."

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