Beechcraft Super King Air 350.
UK spy plane mishap exposes secret military partnership with ‘Israel’
A technical malfunction on July 28, 2025, has exposed the covert nature of the United Kingdom's military involvement in Gaza, revealing that the government has outsourced its spy flights to a private US contractor.
The footage, released at a later time, shows the surveillance aircraft operating over Khan Younis while failing to turn off its transponder, making its flight path publicly visible for three hours.
The plane was later identified as a Beechcraft Super King Air 350, a commercial aircraft operated by Straight Flight Nevada Commercial Leasing LLC, a subsidiary of America's Sierra Nevada Corporation.
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This public revelation contradicted the official narrative that the Royal Air Force (RAF) was conducting the surveillance missions.
While the UK Ministry of Defence has consistently maintained that these flights are “unarmed” and “solely related to hostage rescue,” reports from government sources and testimony at an independent tribunal challenge this claim.
According to these sources, intelligence gathered by the flights is being "handed over to the Israeli military" in "real-time".
The UK government has also admitted to providing intelligence support for the controversial Nuseirat operation in June 2024, a major military action that resulted in the deaths of hundreds of Palestinians.
The incident took place just one day before Prime Minister Keir Starmer made a public announcement that the UK would recognize a Palestinian state in September unless ‘Israel’ agreed to a ceasefire and a two-state solution.
