Comment by barnabee

2 days ago

At a minimum the RAF has operated hundreds of surveillance flights over Gaza.

Multiple sources linked on Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_and_the_Gaza_wa...

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flumpcakes  2 days ago

If I recall correctly this was in direct response to British citizens being kidnapped and held hostage inside Gaza. These were intelligence sorties with the express aim to help locate UK citizens.

  • femiagbabiaka  2 days ago

    Literally hilarious.

    • flumpcakes  2 days ago

      So UK citizens were not kidnapped? Or are you implying the UK were not doing intelligence flights, but were attacking Gaza directly, or had boots on the ground directly? Because I have seen absolutely zero reporting to infer that.

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duggan  2 days ago

"Robot boots 30,000 feet above the ground" doesn't have quite the same ring to it.

  • femiagbabiaka  2 days ago

    I guess those Russian drones in Ukraine aren’t military combatants then?

    • flumpcakes  2 days ago

      Well the Russian drones are munitions, so that's not comparable. Is the UK dropping bombs on Gaza? I have seen zero reporting to say they have.

      The UK might be flying spy planes outside it's airspace when it's citizens were kidnapped. That's not a "combatant". Was the UK a combatant when flying spy planes near the Ukraine border?

      I think you are way off the mark based on reporting, I'm not even sure how you are coming to these stated opinions.

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