: "Patience with Israel inside the MoD appears to be running out...Military sources are baffled by the decision to privatise RAF intelligence-gathering tasks to help Israel, questioning why the government hasn’t pulled support after photographs emerged of starving Palestinians."
https://x.com/kennardmatt/status/1953115904033554921
In a new and important article The Times has confirmed our scoop about the new US-leased plane flying spy missions over Gaza for Israel from RAF Akrotiri, the UK airbase on Cyprus.
UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) sources told the paper that the government is paying a US company to undertake the spy flights. The flights are now flown by contractors, not UK military pilots, but the MoD would not disclose the length or cost of the contract.
We discovered the new contractor pilot had forgotten to turn off his plane's transponder over Gaza on July 28, giving us the first glimpse of the spy flights' path over Gaza in 20 months of such missions.
A UK military source told The Times it was a "schoolboy error" that would not have happened if the plane had been operated by RAF pilots.
It is a very important article because it's first time distress from within the UK Ministry of Defence about its direct participation in the Gaza genocide has been voiced.
The paper writes: "Patience with Israel inside the MoD appears to be running out...Military sources are baffled by the decision to privatise RAF intelligence-gathering tasks to help Israel, questioning why the government hasn’t pulled support after photographs emerged of starving Palestinians."
A senior British military source, speaking on the condition of anonymity, told the newspaper: “Instead of sending a message to Israel that we aren’t going to do surveillance for you, we are happy to hire an American company and pay for it.”
The source added that the aircraft being used by the US company is "essentially the same aircraft [as Shadow R1], being [run] by a civilian company who are for hire. They have US security clearances and therefore allied nations who trust the US can hire them. This is about support for Israel."
The Times added: "Britain’s military support for Israel is at odds with the Foreign Office position, which has been to call out the Israeli government for 'grotesque' treatment of Palestinians and threaten sanctions."
A government source told the paper there would be "several hard drives" of intelligence gathered by British spy planes over Gaza.
The Times article is here: thetimes.com/article/e010bd
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