A damning investigation by Declassified UK has uncovered irrefutable evidence that Britain has been directly assisting the Israeli occupation in its 22-month-long war on Gaza, supplying real-time intelligence through hundreds of spy flights — intelligence that has coincided with some of the deadliest massacres against Palestinian civilians.

The revelations expose the United Kingdom not merely as a silent backer of Israel’s crimes, but as an operational participant in what leading international organisations and legal experts are now calling genocide.

According to the investigation, both American and British reconnaissance aircraft — operating from Britain’s Akrotiri base in Cyprus — carried out surveillance missions near Gaza’s Nuseirat refugee camp ahead of two mass killings: the December 12, 2024 bombing that killed 30 Palestinians, and the June 8, 2024 massacre that left more than 270 dead.

On the eve of the December bloodbath, a U.S. Beechcraft Super King Air 350 surveillance plane, run by Street Flight Nevada, flew over the target area for 20 minutes. The very next day, a British Shadow R1 patrolled off Gaza’s coast for nearly half an hour before resuming flights less than an hour after the Israeli strike concluded — a pattern suggesting coordination with the occupation’s military operations.

In the lead-up to the June massacre, the NGO Action on Armed Violence documented 24 British surveillance flights over or near Gaza in just two weeks — flights London claimed were for “hostage searches,” but whose timing and proximity point to a much darker purpose.

The investigation revealed that since October 7, 2023, Britain has conducted more than 600 reconnaissance missions over Gaza or nearby airspace. Government sources told The Times that the intelligence gathered is passed to the Israeli army “in real time” — a statement that confirms the UK’s active role in supporting Israeli military targeting.

While officials insist the missions are to locate “hostages,” they refuse to disclose the nature of the intelligence shared, shielding the truth behind a wall of secrecy. This deliberate opacity strengthens accusations that the UK is providing targeting data for airstrikes which have killed thousands of Palestinian civilians.

Despite the Labour government’s recent symbolic gestures — sanctioning a handful of extremist Israeli ministers and making conditional promises to recognise a Palestinian state — Britain’s deep security and intelligence cooperation with Tel Aviv remains unchanged.

Since the beginning of Israel’s latest assault, Gaza’s Ministry of Health — whose casualty figures are deemed credible by the UN — reports 61,599 Palestinians killed and 154,088 wounded, the vast majority women and children. Over 9,000 remain missing beneath the rubble, hundreds of thousands have been driven from their homes, and famine — deliberately imposed through blockade — has already claimed the lives of 222 civilians, including 101 children.

These findings leave no doubt: Britain is not a neutral observer. It is actively enabling Israeli war crimes and participating in the mass killing of Palestinians by supplying intelligence that guides the occupier’s bombs.

By continuing to share surveillance data while Gaza’s hospitals are bombed, its refugee camps razed, and its children starved, the UK government has made itself a partner in one of the gravest crimes of our century.

For Palestinians under siege, this is not merely “complicity” — it is collaboration in genocide. (ILKHA)