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Britain secretly devised project to improve Israel’s capacity to confront Iran and Hezbollah, Declassified reveals
Israeli soldiers work on tanks and armoured personnel carriers (APC) in northern Israel, on September 30, 2024

THE British government secretly developed a defence plan with Israel, Declassified revealed today.

A project codenamed HEZUK was designed to counter the “destabilising regional activity of Iran and Hezbollah” by strengthening intelligence and military co-operation, according to documents leaked by a group called Anonymous for Justice

Leaked presentation slides prepared by Britain’s defence attache to Tel Aviv in 2020 for a delegation from the UK’s Higher Command and Staff Course indicate that the project was born in 2019-20.

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