The Ministry of Defence has confirmed that the Royal Air Force has not provided logistical or operational support to Israel over the past year, addressing speculation about the UK’s military role in the region.
Responding to a written parliamentary question from Susan Murray MP, Armed Forces Minister Al Carns stated that “the RAF is not providing logistical or operational support to Israel.”
He added that while no logistical support had been provided, UK aircraft had conducted surveillance flights between December 2023 and October 2025 to assist efforts to locate hostages taken during the Hamas terrorist attacks of 7 October 2023.
According to Carns, “the UK government has been working with partners across the region to secure the release of hostages, including British nationals, who were kidnapped.” These missions, he said, were unarmed and had “no combat role,” operating over the Eastern Mediterranean and within Israeli and Gazan airspace. The final flight took place on 10 October 2025 following the Gaza peace plan and the release of all remaining hostages.
The clarification comes after a wave of misinformation earlier this month that falsely suggested a UK military aircraft had assisted Israeli operations over Qatar. The British Embassy in Doha dismissed those claims as “baseless and false,” confirming that the RAF Voyager involved had been conducting a pre-planned air-to-air refuelling exercise with the Qatari Emiri Air Force.
The RAF’s Airbus Voyager tankers use the probe-and-drogue refuelling method, which is incompatible with Israel’s US-designed fighter jets, making such cooperation technically impossible. The Ministry of Defence said all UK flights in the region were humanitarian in nature and that intelligence sharing was tightly controlled to protect operational security.
Many of these loony activist groups cite the motivation for their protest marches is the UK’s “complacency in arming Israel”
They are so deeply indoctrinated in their “cause” that they don’t want to hear the facts.
That is the problem with all extreme views. That and resorting to “the ends justifys the means”
The minister spoke to clarify, but intel gathering overflights was a sustained effort by us and did it facilitate any freeing of hostages and there was no other purpose for sharing data with Isreal?
If you believe this? You belong in the same basket as the looney leftards.
If true then it is to our shame.
Israel v Hamas is the clearest fight of good v evil since the western allies v the Nazis, possibly more clear given that they are not allied to evil as we were with the USSR.
We should be ashamed of the racist apologists for genocide in our midst who criticize Israel for defending its people.
Well we should support there war against the terrorists
A quick wiki search not double checked , 8 Israeli hostages were recovered by the IDF the rest that were alive were released. It looks like a small proportion were recovered by IDF with or without uk intel. What were Israelis using the data for?