What the hell is going on with Britain's spy flights above Gaza?

There have been hundreds of those since the genocide begun.

And it's not at all clear from the British authorities what's actually going on at all.

Now, this is part and parcel, of course, of British and Western complicity in Israel's genocide against the Palestinian people.

This is the subject of a fascinating new documentary by Declassified, who do incredible and crucial

investigative work and have really stuck to this story all the way through very doggedly.

The documentary is Britain's Gaza spy- fight scandal, which looks into an issue

which has just been completely avoided by, I guess, the quote unquote, mainstream media in this

country. Don't want to be joined by Phil to discuss what the hell is going on with these spy fights.

Hey, how are you doing? Hi, Owen. Good, thanks.

Yeah, I'm just to explain what is, I mean, so these are R-AF flights from Cyprus, which

used to be a British colony.

What are they?

What are these spy flights?

What, you know, just basic information, I guess, and how many have they been?

Yeah, so Britain still has this base

on Cyprus. It's about 200 miles away from Gaza, and it takes about 45 minutes for these

small surveillance planes to go over to Gaza, and they've been spending several hours over there

before coming back. They have crew on board, you know, pilot, and then people in the back with all this monitoring, all this surveillance gear that the planes have. They have crew on board, you know, pilot and then people in the back with all this

monitoring all this surveillance gear that the planes have. They don't just have cameras.

They have powerful radars as well that can see through cloud. And they've been gathering thousands

of hours of intelligence through these flights, officially looking for hostages and sharing that intelligence

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