A new video from Matt Kennard and Double Down News (DDN) has taken the exposure of the Starmer government’s collaboration with Israel’s genocide to new heights. The findings from the video show, clearer than ever, that the UK has played a central role in Israel’s crimes.

UK Government’s Covert Operations – and post-op cover-ups

As the video details, the UK government operated near-daily spy flights over Gaza from December 2023 onwards. Initially they claimed that these were to help locate Israeli ‘hostages’ but later admitted they were providing intelligence directly to the Israeli military using the Shadow R1 spyplane’s target-acquisition capabilities.

These flights were often not over areas where Israeli captives had been taken, instead operating directly over active combat zones where Israeli warplanes were bombing civilians, including children in tents and journalists. As long suspected, the UK government has been a participant in the Gaza genocide since its earliest days.

These RAF flights were also operating last year as Israel bombed UK citizens working with aid agencies on at least three occasions in coordinated, targeted attacks – and the Starmer regime has refused to release the footage that the spyplane shot in the area as those attacks were perpetrated.

Starmer not only continued but escalated the collaboration of the Tory government. Since getting into power in July last year the UK has allowed at least 9 separate Israeli military planes – usually air-to-air refuelling aircraft used to keep Israel’s ground attack planes in the air for long periods – to land at RAF Brize Norton. However, as the video discusses, Starmer has done everything he possibly could to keep these, and the RAF-operated (later sub-contracted to the US) flights over Gaza a secret. That includes issuing ‘D-notice’ (now officially called DSMAs) gagging orders to UK mainstream media to keep the British public in the dark about them.

Media and Government Secrecy

Despite obeying these DSMAs not being obligatory, the the corporate media has cooperated fully with the regime’s  suppression of coverage of its secret activities in Gaza, including the almost certain deployment of SAS special forces on operations in Gaza via Cyprus.

As well as hiding the number, nature and missions of Israeli warplanes landing in Britain, Starmer’s regime is also refusing to disclose how much UK public funds are being paid to US contractor Straight Flight Nevada Commercial Leasing for operating the Gaza spy flights for the RAF, which it began doing over the summer as Starmer and his front bench scrambled to put some distance between them and the Israeli crimes they were assisting.

In the video, Kennard then looks at the legal and ethical implications of the Starmer regime’s direct collaboration in Israel’s genocide, which he describes as a “crime that will echo down the ages” that should be investigated by the International Criminal Court with all the key UK accomplices in the dock for their part in promoting mass slaughter, “endless war” and the cover-up of their partnership in genocide with Israel.

Watch the full video from DDN below:

By Skwawkbox

This post was originally published on Canary.