Israelis offer war criminal Tony Blair to be Gaza humanitarian coord.
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Source: Declassified UK
RAF Admits To Making 17 Military Flights To Israel Since Gaza Bombing Began
But Declassified discovers 33 UK military transport flights to Tel Aviv in the last month, including every day for two weeks after the Gaza bombing began.
BY MATT KENNARD AND MARK CURTIS | 10 NOVEMBER 2023
Flight path of a British A400 Atlas military aircraft which went from the UK air base
on Cyprus to Israel on Wednesday. (Screengrab: RadarBox)
• British A400 military transport aircraft flew to Tel Aviv on Wednesday
• Declassified could find no record of similar flights to Israel before Gaza bombing started
• UK military denies sending "lethal aid" and says the planes supported Britain's "diplomatic engagement" in Israel
• Ministry of Defence refuses to provide detail of the cargo or personnel on flights
Flight logs tracking aircraft from RAF Akrotiri, the UK's vast air base in Cyprus, show the RAF flew military transport aircraft to Tel Aviv, Israel's capital, every day from 13 to 26 October.
Declassified has counted 33 RAF flights from Cyprus to Tel Aviv's Ben Gurion Airport since Israel began bombing Gaza. The UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) told Declassified it had sent 17 flights into Israel's capital but the time period for this number is unclear.
Flight records going back to 6 August show no UK military flights from RAF Akrotiri to Israel before the bombing of Gaza began.
The first flight went on 11 October from Brize Norton, the RAF's major base in Oxfordshire. This was four days after the start of Israel's brutal bombing campaign in Gaza, which has included flagrant war crimes, including targeting hospitals and ambulances, and the killing of over 10,000 Palestinians.
The exact nature of UK military aid to Israel remains unclear. The discovery of a large number of transport flights could make defence secretary Grant Shapps, who is in charge of the UK military, vulnerable to questioning by the International Criminal Court (ICC).
The ICC’s chief prosecutor, Karim Khan, has said the body is investigating evidence of war crimes perpetrated during the bombing campaign in Gaza.
RAF Akrotiri, which has long been the staging post for British bombing campaigns in the Middle East, sits 180 miles from Tel Aviv. The flight time is 40 minutes.
An MoD spokesperson told Declassified: "The RAF has operated 17 flights into Tel Aviv in order to support the UK's diplomatic engagement in country as well as to assist with the departure of British nationals."
The department added: "None of these flights transported any lethal aid for foreign nations."
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