Monitoring and analysis of navigational data – from the Radar Box website – showed that more than 6,000 military flights were recorded in the region linked to Western countries during a year of the Israeli war on Gaza, with the establishment of a permanent air bridge with massive Western support to support Israel in bombing the besieged Strip with tons of weapons. Bombs.
One year after the events of October 7, 2023, the United States and the countries of the Western world are still rushing to provide intelligence and logistical support, as well as sending military aid shipments to support Israel in the war of annihilation it is waging against the Gaza Strip in addition to its recent attacks on Lebanon.
The Sanad Monitoring and Verification Agency, affiliated with the Tel Aviv Tribune Network, monitored the activity of military flights and analyzed their data from October 7, 2023 until the beginning of the same month of the current year, using navigational monitoring tools and geographical analysis.
“SANAD” monitored – through analysis of navigational data – about 1,900 military transport flights, more than 70% of which headed to military bases in Cyprus, Greece and Italy, which since October 7, 2023 have been used as advanced support bases for Israel, while the rest headed to Israel. directly.
Sanad also tracked more than 1,600 aerial reconnaissance flights, of which Israel carried out only about 20%, in addition to documenting 1,800 flights to refuel aircraft overhead.
Britain
The data shows Britain leading all countries with more than 47% of survey trips. The data revealed that the British Air Force used a Shadow R1 aircraft on most flights.
These aircraft, developed by the American company Raytheon, feature an advanced set of surveillance and sensor devices that enable them to carry out intelligence tasks, impose continuous monitoring of movements on the ground, track vehicles, and carry out target identification tasks.
This type of aircraft was monitored for about 645 flights during that period, while the “B-8” aircraft was used in at least 6 reconnaissance flights, and all of these flights were launched mainly from Cyprus, Israel, and Greece.
Britain also used its Typhoon fighter planes on at least more than 135 flights in the skies of Israel, and was able to intercept several Iranian attack drones.
The Typhoon is classified as a multi-role, highly efficient combat aircraft that allows the pilot to perform multiple roles and functions, and it specializes in rapid air response missions.
Israel
As for Israel, it in turn participated using a number of aircraft, the most important of which was the “Oron” aircraft, which according to monitoring carried out 167 air sorties during the year of the war after it entered full service for the first time following the “Al-Aqsa Flood” operation.
“Oron” is one of the largest Israeli aircraft, and it can detect thousands of targets in seconds over an area extending for thousands of kilometers, according to the head of the Israeli military research and development department, Brigadier General Yaniv Rotem.
Israel also used at least two “Eitam” aircraft for early warning, and the aircraft operated within the same squadron on more than 58 monitored flights, in addition to two “Shavit” aircraft on at least 16 flights. Two Beechcraft B200T Zovet 5 aircraft were also used on 45 flights, while the Beechcraft B200T Zovet 3 aircraft had a total of 35 flights.
US
As for the United States, it has extensively used its huge Poseidon P-8A and Maritime Patrol Aircraft aircraft designated for maritime reconnaissance in more than 167 reconnaissance flights. The Boeing RC-135 and Lockheed EP-3 aircraft were also used in more than 90 reconnaissance flights, while the MQ-4C Triton drone – operated by the Navy – appeared in more than 73 flights. According to monitored navigational data.
The United States also used the Boeing E-3 Sentry early warning aircraft, equipped with an integrated battle management and control platform, on 16 flights.
Fuel supply and military transportation
In addition to the reconnaissance aircraft, Sanad monitored approximately 1,800 refueling flights overhead, and analytical data shows that Israel carried out up to 950 flights, followed by the British Air Force with more than 560 aerial refueling flights.
The analysis of the data that was monitored reveals that approximately 365 military transport flights went directly to Israel, in addition to 840 flights to military bases in Cyprus, Greece and Italy, which are used extensively to support the occupation, with a total of more than 1,200 military cargo flights.
Starting rules
The German Air Force contributed more than 80 military transport flights, most of which departed from the Wenzdorf air base, while about 25% of US military transport flights departed from the Ramstein base, located in southwestern Germany. It also appears that at least 11 Israeli military transport flights took off from Germany to Israel.
While the British Air Force relied on its military transport flights, which exceeded 350 flights, on the Brize Norton base in Oxfordshire (northwest of London), while its reconnaissance and refueling flights relied mainly on the British Akrotiri base in Cyprus.
In its flights, the United States relied mainly on the “Souda” base on the Greek island of Crete, and it also used the “Paphos” air base in Cyprus, and the Italian “Sigonella” base, which contains a station belonging to the US Air Force and Navy and is located east of Sicily, Italy.
In addition to these aircraft, Israel and the Western countries use a huge, diverse fleet of drones that carry out various missions that do not leave the skies of Gaza and Lebanon, and cannot be monitored by open source navigational tracking tools.
Therefore, the numbers monitored in this report remain less than the actual reconnaissance flights that do not leave the skies of occupied Palestine and Lebanon, but they indicate the unprecedented size of these flights in history over a limited geographical area.
Since October 7, 2023 – with absolute American support, and in full view of the whole world – Israel has been waging a genocidal war on Gaza, which as of yesterday afternoon, Tuesday, left 143,000 Palestinian martyrs and wounded, most of them children and women, and more than 10,000 missing, amid devastation. Massive famine killed dozens of children and the elderly, in one of the worst humanitarian disasters in the world.
While the aggression against Lebanon resulted in total human losses amounting to 2,546 dead, and 11,862 wounded, including a large number of women and children, in addition to more than 1,340,000 displaced people.
