
Posted: 9th March 2026
More than 2,000 Britons served in the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) during the Gaza genocide, it can be revealed.
The information was obtained by Declassified via a Freedom of Information request issued to the IDF by lawyer Elad Man from the NGO Hatzlacha.
Officials initially blocked us from holding a press pass, citing the ‘particular standpoint’ of our Gaza investigations

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Keir Starmer’s announcement that the UK will allow the US to use its bases to attack Iran makes Britain a ‘legitimate target’ for the embattled Middle Eastern nation, a former UK ambassador to Iran has warned.
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After a drone hit a Royal Air Force base in Cyprus on Sunday night (believed to be Iranian-made but not fired from Iran), the debate in Britain has centred on why the airfield was not better protected.
But in Cyprus, anger is focused on why Britain still has military bases there at all.
“We got no sleep last night,” local resident Melanie Steliou told Declassified on Monday, as sirens blared in the background. “My son has not gone to school today because it is next to the base.”
From where they are exactly to the laws governing them, here’s what we need to know to hold the UK government accountable for Trump’s use of British bases.
Read moreLong before a drone struck RAF Akrotiri, opposition to one of Britain’s last colonial outposts was already growing in Cyprus.
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