U.S. Air Force Targeting Teams Assisting Israel's War On Gaza

Flames and smoke billow during Israeli strikes in Gaza on October 9.(Reuters: Mohammed Salem)  

The Intercept: Biden Admin Deployed Air Force Team to Israel to Assist With Targets, Document Suggests  

Guidance for officers deployed to Israel appears to show the U.S. military providing intelligence for airstrikes in Gaza.  

Targeting intelligence — the information used to conduct airstrikes and fire long-range artillery weapons — has played a central role in Israel’s siege of Gaza. A document obtained through the Freedom of Information Act suggests that the U.S. Air Force sent officers specializing in this exact form of intelligence to Israel in late November. 

Since the start of Israel’s bombardment in retaliation for Hamas’s strike on October 7, Israel has dropped more than 29,000 bombs on the tiny Gaza Strip, according to a U.S. intelligence reportOpens in a new tab last month. And for the first timeOpens in a new tab in U.S. history, the Biden administration has been flying surveillance drone missions over Gaza since at least early November, ostensibly for hostage recoveryOpens in a new tab by special forces. At the time the drones were revealed, U.S. Gen. Pat Ryder insistedOpens in a new tab that the special operations forces deployed to Israel to advise on hostage rescue were “not participating in [Israel Defense Forces] target development.”  

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Update: US secretly sent ‘targeting officers’ to aid Israel’s war on Gaza: Report (The Cradle)  

WNU Editor: Targeting intelligence always play a critical role in any war. I see this US hand playing a critical role in the Russia - Ukraine war, and it looks like this is also the case in the Israel - Hamas war.

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