RAF surveillance planes regularly fly to Gaza and supply Israel with the intelligence gained.

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Over 500 surveillance missions have been flown by the RAF from Akrotiri since Oct 2023, yet not a whisper of it in MSM. It might be something to do with the D notice sent out to UK media organisations that suppresses reporting the activity of UK forces in Gaza. Also there is a block on questions about this being raised by MPs, as Kenny MacAskill, MP for East Lothian found out.

Both the conservative and labour governments have said that these flights were to help find the hostages.

Several satellites did spot the IDF, their field execution of civilian humanitarian workers and the burying of their bodies and emergency vehicles.

I don’t know if the RAF flight caught it as well. The RAF flights are ultimately to serve British interests, not Israeli. They’d not let us fly in their airspace if we didn’t pay our way with some intelligence and a bit of swarminess.

The idea too is that by providing them daily intelligence on the exact locations of Hamas, that casts a lot of doubt on Israel’s supposed need to indiscriminately bomb the strip killing tens of thousands of civilians to get at Hamas.

Ultimately, our government is handwringing while looking to the US for orders and basically being a political wind sock. If the balance tips, you can bet the info gathered will be used to help prosecute Israeli officials for war crimes and in support if the ICJ genocide case.