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Gaza: Air Force

Ministry of Defence written question – answered at on 4 November 2024.

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Photo of Richard Burgon Richard Burgon Independent, Leeds East

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 14 October 2024 to Question 6280 on Gaza: Air Force, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that information gathered by unarmed UK surveillance aircraft and shared with the Israeli military is only used to help locate hostages.

Photo of Luke Pollard Luke Pollard Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Defence) (Minister for the Armed Forces), The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Defence

Our mandate is narrowly defined to focus on securing the release of the hostages only, including British nationals. Only information relating to hostage rescue will be passed to the relevant authorities.

We are unable comment further on detailed intelligence matters for operational security reasons.

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  • (Citation: HC Deb, 4 November 2024, cW)

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