by Mark Curtis, Declassified UK, 26 March 2025 UK companies have sold £9m worth of technology for Israel’s submarines, which are believed to house nuclear weapons. When the government recently published its arms exports data for the period July to September last year, one item caught the eye: a licence to sell Israel £7.1m worth of “technology […]
Topic: Israel
by Mark Curtis, Declassified UK, 19 February 2025 Israel’s air force recently undertook three flights from the Royal Air Force’s main base in Oxfordshire. Were they carrying arms? The Israeli Air Force (IAF) operated at least three transport flights from RAF Brize Norton in October and November last year, Declassified has found. Two of the flights – […]
by Mark Curtis and Phil Miller, Declassified UK, 13 February 2025 The Royal Air Force (RAF) has operated surveillance flights near Gaza on all five days of the ceasefire that Hamas released hostages, Declassified has found. No spy planes were sent towards the strip on the other 20 days of the ceasefire. The latest flight, by a […]
by Mark Curtis, Declassified UK, 15 January 2025 Britain’s ‘public service broadcaster’ is keeping the public in the dark about UK support for Israel’s assault on Gaza, new research finds. The BBC is failing to report the various ways in which the UK government has supported Israel’s brutal war on Gaza, Declassified’s new analysis finds. Our […]
by Mark Curtis, Declassified UK, 9 January 2025 Top British officers have made at least five unpublicised trips to Tel Aviv to meet Israeli officials, one to discuss ‘future operations’ in the Middle East. The most senior figures in the UK military made at least five unpublicised visits to Israel in the months after it […]
by Mark Curtis, Declassified UK, 23 December 2024 Tony Blair sent the SAS to hunt down suspected Bosnian war criminals in the 1990s who were accused of lesser abuses than Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant. Very little is known about Operation Tango, a secret SAS mission to capture suspected war criminals in Bosnia in 1997. It was […]
by John McEvoy and Mark Curtis, Declassified UK, 27 November 2024 Exclusive: Days after the International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for Israeli leaders, its top general flew to London. Israel’s top soldier, Lieutenant General Herzi Halevi, visited Britain earlier this week, the UK government has confirmed to Declassified. The visit came three days after the […]
by Mark Curtis, Declassified UK, 5 November 2024 UK soldiers are now equipped with a ‘cutting-edge weapons sight’ produced by an Israeli arms firm nurtured by its defence ministry. The British army’s main global response force is now equipped with new Israeli technology being used in Gaza. The Air Assault Brigade, based in Colchester, has […]
by Mark Curtis, Declassified UK, 23 October 2024 Since the 1960s, Labour and Conservative governments have supported or acquiesced in several cases of genocide across Africa, the Middle East and Asia. Many people in Britain I speak to struggle to understand how their government can acquiesce in, still less support, Israel’s genocide of Palestinians in […]
by Mark Curtis, Declassified UK, 7 October 2024 Explainer: As Israel bombards Beirut, we take a look at Britain’s military role in Lebanon. In his first public speech as chief of MI6 in 2021, Sir Richard Moore said his intelligence agency was “actively focused on Iran”. This was part of what he described as a “dramatic change […]