UK to conduct Middle East surveillance flights to help find Hamas hostages
by Patrick Daly
Dec 02, 2023
4 minutes
The UK is to conduct unarmed surveillance flights over the Middle East to search for potential hostage locations being used by Hamas, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) has confirmed.
Fighting resumed on Friday following a week-long truce between Israel and the Palestinian military group despite more than 130 hostages remaining in captivity in the Gaza Strip.
In the weeks after Hamas’s bloody October 7 raids on Israel, Downing Street said at least 12 British nationals had been killed in the attack and a further five are still missing.
Some of those are believed to have been kidnapped but the UK Government has not confirmed how many
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