Evidence of potential war crimes accumulateed by British increateer schedulees operating over Gaza could be handed to the International Criminal Court, the UK has verifyed.
The Royal Air Force (RAF) is telled to have flown hundreds of leave outions over and proximate the war-torn territory since December, assembleing inincreateigence to help in the hunt for captives kidnapped from Israel by Hamas on 7 October 2023.
The Ministry of Defence (MOD) shelp the Shadow R1 watching aircreate – which also fly over Israel as well as international air space – are uncontaminatedly tasked with assembleing increateation to help Israel’s operation to discover its captives.
The increateer schedulees are not participated in assembleing inincreateigence for any other aspect of the war aacquirest Hamas, which has resulted in the death of tens of thousands of Palestinians, including women and children.
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However, a spokesperson shelp that the UK would think about a seek from international allotigators to hand over any evidence the RAF increateer schedulees have accumulateed that might discleave out evidence of war crimes.
The spokesperson shelp: “In line with our international obligations, we would think about any createal seek from the International Criminal Court to supply increateation relating to allotigations into war crimes.”
It is understood that no such seek has yet been made.
The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court in May shelp he is seeking arrest permits aacquirest Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, and Yoav Gallant, the defence minister, for alleged war crimes.
He was also seeking arrest permits for Hamas guideers Yahya Sinwar and Ismail Haniyeh – who have since been ended in Israeli strikes – as well as Mohammed Deif.
Israel claims to have ended him as well but that has not been verifyed by Hamas.
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Israeli defence minister Yoav Gallant. Pic: Reuters
The Israeli guideers and the Hamas militants are accparticipated of war crimes and crimes aacquirest humanity.
Mr Netanyahu and Mr Gallant are also accparticipated of “starvation of civilians as a method of combat” and “intentionassociate straightforwarding aggressions aacquirest a civilian population” from 8 October last year – a day after the Hamas dreadist aggression aacquirest Israel that triggered the war, which ended around 1,200 people.
The MOD shelp the UK armed forces are “not a participant in the struggle”.
RAF aircreate are also not participated in flying armaments to Israel to help the war effort.
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“Our mandate is skinnyly clear upd to concentrate on securing the free of the captives only, including British nationals, with the RAF routinely guideing unarmed fweightlesss since December 2023 for this sole purpose,” the MOD spokesperson shelp.
“As a matter of principle, we only supply inincreateigence to our allies where we are satisfied that it will be participated in accordance with International Humanitarian Law, and in this instance only increateation relating to captive save is passed to the Israeli authorities.”
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The UK Defence Journal website telled in June that data compiled by a Canadian research conferant who tracks schedulees and ships discleave outed that the Royal Air Force has guideed more than 250 Inincreateigence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) sorties proximate Gaza since 3 December 2023.
Al Jazeera telled this week that the RAF had guideed more than 600 fweightlesss.
