Declassified UK (DCUK) have exposed new details about spy flights conducted from a British base. Reporters Phil Miller and Alex Morris did what the British media have failed to do. By travelling to the Cyprus, they exposed British support for Israel. The revelations are truly startling.
The full film is now available to watch on YouTube:
The team captured:
- The first ever footage of a spy plane leased by the RAF from an American company to surveil Gaza.
- They found that the outsourced spy plane continued to operate even after partially disabling its location beacon, meaning there were up to 116 extra surveillance missions than previously thought.
- The team investigated a possible link between a December 2024 spy flight and a massacre of 34 Palestinian civilians in Nuseirat, Gaza – film is being released around anniversary.
- They got an exclusive interview with the family of a British aid worker killed by Israel (the spy flight was in the air in the build up to the attack, but the Ministry of Defence won’t release the footage to the family).
- And they exposed how the flights were not only ignored by the BBC and corporate media, but how leading military and intelligence experts at the top universities told us they had ‘never heard of any such flights.’
- The film shows how British police attached to one military base “knew we were coming”.
DCUK interviewed former military personnel and a Cypriot politician. And they spoke to the father of an ex-Royal Marine aid worker killed by an Israeli strike.
British complicity in Gaza genocide
The team visited Cyprus in September 2025. They filmed one of the last British spy flights before the so-called ‘ceasefire’ kicked in.
On 2 April 2024, Israel killed three British aid workers in Gaza against the backdrop of a televised genocide.
DCUK found a spy plane had been airborne over Gaza at the time. The three were all military veterans. One of them was James Henderson, an ex-Royal Marine. Henderson’s father, Neil, told DCUK that the UK military admitted to having footage from that day, but refused to release it:
“If it was released, it would give us a far better understanding of what was happening on the ground. I think it would prove that the Israelis were watching them…I really do believe they were deliberately targeted.”
The UK says the spy planes only supported hostage rescue. Yet former Royal Air Force technician Steve Masters told DCUK that “while footage could locate hostages”:
“they could have just as easily been used for general target acquisition”.
Asked if the UK could control what Israeli did with intelligence gathered, Masters said: “I don’t believe you can.”
Cypriot politician Melanie Steliou took the team around British airbases. Together, they watched Typhoon jets depart for bombing runs in Iraq.
Steliou said:
“The thought that every time a plane leaves, people could be dead and children could be dead… It’s heartbreaking and infuriating, and they’re taking off from here! They’re off on a death run”.
And in their press release, DCUK revealed a final chilling detail:
Some surveillance flights took place shortly before major massacres in Gaza. In one case, an outsourced spy plane left its tracker on as it flew within three streets of a house in Nuseirat hours before Israel bombed it, killing dozens.
Our colleagues at DCUK have been telling truth to power since 2019. This may be their best work yet.
Evidently, British legacy media dropped the ball on the Gaza genocide and Israel’s crimes years ago. And it’s never going to pick it back up. Crusading media outlets like DCUK and us at the Canaryaren’t going to let the UK off the hook so easily…
Featured image via DCUK
By Joe Glenton
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