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But the twit says it's a us company that does this. For Israel. How is the UK even involved?
The UK used to run the flights themselves with their own military spy planes. They argued that this would strictly be for hostage rescue. Given that they spent hours circling Gaza daily and live-streaming any and all information to the Israelis for almost two years, a time in which not even a hand full of hostages were recovered by military means, that seems a big lie.
Now as the UK feels pressured to stop their direct involvement, they are instead paying American private contractors with UK taxpayer money, to do the dirty work for them. We now have the evidence as those were too stupid to turn their transponders off. Before that Matt Kennard could only verify multiple spy planes taking off and landing from and towards Gaza at the UK army base in Cyprus daily. But they turned off their transponders once they came close to the coast of Palestine.
EDIT: See for instance
https://www.thetimes.com/uk/defence/article/gaza-spying-us-news-lp90mz062
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20250808-us-based-contractor-hired-by-uk-to-continue-spy-flights-over-gaza/