UK shadow surveillance operations

Editor's note: Many Americans are well aware of Jewish power in the US like through AIPAC controlling members ("every GOP member has an AIPAC babysitter") of the US senate and congress, but few Americans realize that without the UK Israel would not be able to survive. Another way to express this relationship between Britain and Israel is that Israel is "Britain's forward fire base in the Middle East." This is not about "crimes" or "humanity." This is commercial warfare (a large construction project) and in this scenario the value of a Palestinian life has zero meaning. There is no difference between dropping a building in Gaza or Lebanon with a 1,000 pound bomb or killing Palestinian and Lebanese people.
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Keier Starmer's Gaza Spy Plane Caught On Camera

Exclusive: A Royal Air Force plane conducting surveillance of Palestine has been filmed taking off from its base on Cyprus for the first time.

By Phil Miller | November 14, 2024

South Africa's former foreign minister says British intelligence sharing flights with Israel constitute "collusion" in a "crime against humanity" Jutting out from behind a line of trees on Cyprus' southern peninsula, a twin propeller plane prepares for an early evening take off.

With its red, white and blue livery, ZZ507 looks more like a VIP shuttle than a military intelligence platform.

And yet this is one the Royal Air Force's most highly classified assets: the Shadow R1.

Speaking at an arms fair, air commodore Ian Gale stressed "when you have an aeroplane whose output that we guard very, very carefully, you've got to know that what it’s doing is absolutely crucial."

Throughout the last year, the Shadow fleet has been conducting almost daily surveillance over Gaza, 225 miles away. The trips are flown by the RAF's 14 Squadron – nicknamed "the Crusaders".

Their missions are partially visible on flight tracking websites, which log hundreds of sorties heading to and from the besieged Palestinian enclave.

Naledi Pandor was South Africa's foreign minister when it accused Israel of genocide at the International Court of Justice.

She told Declassified that such flights are "collusion with what has been called a crime against humanity".

Until now, no pictures have emerged of the Shadow fleet operating from their base at Akrotiri in Cyprus, where Britain retains three per cent of its former colony for military purposes.

The Ministry of Defence (MoD) released footage of RAF aid drops on Gaza and bombing raids on Yemen as those planes took off from Akrotiri.

But it has declined to publish any images of these Shadow surveillance operations.

Even the family of a British aid worker who was killed by Israel was denied access to footage from a Shadow plane that was in the air as the massacre unfolded.

So Declassified hired an experienced cameraman in Cyprus, Aleksandar Ljubojevic, and tasked him with gaining the first images of the flights.

Ljubojevic has worked with some of Britain's biggest television networks and was previously invited by the MoD to film inside Akrotiri.

However no such invitation was available to Declassified.

Please go to DeclassifiedUK to continue reading.

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