New proof has revealed that the British Armed Forces have offered vital assist to the continuing Israeli struggle effort towards Palestinian militia teams via surveillance flights over the Gaza Strip. Because the outbreak of hostilities on October 7 Western international locations have offered vital and rising assist to Israeli army efforts, with america revealed in November 2023 to have additionally been deploying MQ-9 Reaper drones for surveillance of Gaza and passing intelligence to Israeli forces. The CIA has additionally offered intelligence on the places of Palestinian leaders to assist ongoing Israeli assassination makes an attempt, and alongside advisors the U.S. additionally reported to have deployed particular forces for fight within the theatre. Help and notably provision of armaments has confronted some criticism within the West for diverting a lot wanted assist and a spotlight away from Ukraine at a time of accelerating Russian advances. A lot as Britain took a number one function in supporting the Ukrainian struggle effort, together with deployment of Royal Marines from early 2022 for frontline fight operations towards Russian forces, the Royal Air Pressure has additionally flown over 50 surveillance flights over Gaza since December from the nation’s airbase in Cyprus RAF Akrotiri – a Everlasting Joint Working Base. It was beforehand revealed that the nation was additionally offered armaments to assist an ongoing invasion of the territory by Israeli forces.
RAF Akrotiri has beforehand served as a key staging floor for British offensive operations into the Center East towards each Syria and Iraq. In 2013 Syria deployed Su-24M2 strike fighters newly modernised in Russia to fly close to the ability in reveals of pressure to display its retaliatory functionality towards it at a time when London was main calls within the Western world for an assault on the nation. The bottom has additionally been a centre of tensions with Russia, with British sources reporting in 2021 that Russian forces made repeated efforts to jam the GPS navigation techniques utilized by Royal Air Pressure plane working from Cyprus. RAF Akrotiri was established in 1955, a yr earlier than the Suez Disaster, throughout which it served as a key staging floor for a joint invasion of Egypt alongside French and Israeli forces. The bottom prior to now additionally hosted America CIA U-2 surveillance plane deployed to monitory Egyptian forces within the aftermath of the Yom Kippur Struggle with Israel. The ability was extra just lately used as a staging floor for offensives towards Libya in 2011, and from January 12, 2024, has been used for strikes towards Yemeni Ansuruallah Coalition forces.
