32 Israeli soldiers trained in UK and active in Israel’s genocide identified

At least thirty-two Israeli soldiers trained by the British military are fighting among Israel’s genocidal forces in Gaza, according to an investigation by Declassified UK that uncovered a leaked list of RCDS (Royal College of Defence Studies) alumni on file-sharing website Distributed Denial of Secrets (DDoS).

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The trainees include the current chief of the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) Southern Command, Colonel Yaniv Asor, who runs Israel’s military operations in Gaza and was recently named by the head of the Israeli air force as the man responsible for the mass civilian casualties inflicted on Palestinians, overwhelmingly civilians.

The Starmer regime was already facing questions after an RAF spy aircraft was found to be in the air over Gaza as Israel murdered a group of journalists earlier this year and several British World Central Kitchen aid workers last year – and an RAF refuelling plane over Doha, Qatar, during Israel’s recent bombing attack there using at least ten strike aircraft that needed refuelling in order to make it back to Israel.

Now the involvement of UK-trained officers active on the ground in the Gaza genocide raises yet more concerns about Britain’s collaboration in Israel’s crimes in Gaza.

The leaked documents also indicate that at least four officers are still undergoing training in the UK despite a supposed new ban on them doing so after the Starmer government u-turned under pressure and public scrutiny.

Charlie Herbert, a retired British army general, told Declassified that the government’s collusion with Israel is a “disgrace” and that the UK should be boycotting Israel, not enabling it:

That it has taken so long to bar IDF officers from the prestigious Royal College of Defence Studies is a disgrace. Even now, it is not sufficient to ban them from 2026. Instead all IDF personnel currently studying or training at UK military establishments should be expelled immediately.

The UK government should be boycotting all such relationships with this Israeli government. Keir Starmer seems determined to drag the country into a level of complicity that will shame us for decades.

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