This afternoon Israel committed yet another terrorist atrocity when it bombed the building hosting Gaza’s peace negotiators in Doha, Qatar. Doha – RAF refuelling plane was circling

Now, flight tracker data shows that an RAF refuelling aircraft was circling overhead as Israel was bombing Doha:

The distance from Israel to Doha is approximately 2,200km – around the same as the total range of the F35 strike aircraft used by Israel – meaning that the jets would need in-flight refuelling to return to Israel.

Questions were raised – and not yet answered by the Starmer regime – about the RAF’s involvement in the murder of six journalists bombed by Israel in Gaza, after similar tracking showed an RAF plane circling over the attack location.

This new data raises the same possibility that the Starmer regime has gone beyond political cover, spy flights and a lawfare war on UK rights of protest and free speech in it’s collusion in Israel’s genocide – into active collaboration in an act of war on the sovereign territory of a nation hosting supposed peace talks.

  • Skua@kbin.earth
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    5 days ago

    I don’t think this theory holds up

    • The flight in question returned to Al Udeid air base at 1405, over an hour and a half before the explosions. For it to have refuelled the Israeli jets they’d have to have just been hanging about off the coast of Doha for all that time
    • The air base it’s flying out of is a Qatari one, meaning the tanker would have had to return to the Qatari base immediately after facilitating an attack on Qatar right in Qatar’s line of sight
    • An RAF tanker flew the same route at the same time for several days beforehand, so it doesn’t seem like this was an unusual one
    • Israel has plenty of its own tankers
    • Surely the Israeli jets would not have refuelled right outside their target?

    On top of that, 2,200 km is not the distance for a plane to fly from Israel to Qatar, it’s the distance for a car to drive. It’s 400 km less than that in a straight line, or 300 km less if you want to approach Qatar by flying over the Persian Gulf

    • ohulancutash@feddit.uk
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      4 days ago

      All that is good but it’s quicker to point out that Israeli jets are incompatible with British tankers.

      • Skua@kbin.earth
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        4 days ago

        Also that, but I didn’t know about it when I wrote this and it wasn’t something that I thought to check