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RAF Fairford: Netanyahu claims Israel warned UK of ‘Iranian attack’
Katherine Hearst10/1/2026

Benjamin Netanyahu has claimed Israel gave Britain intelligence about the incident last Sunday near the RAF Fairford military base, without providing any evidence. The Israeli prime minister also suggested the British government has given in to an "Islamist-Marxist alliance", less than a day after an Israeli minister labelled British Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood an "Islamist". In an interview with Fox News, Netanyahu said : "You talked about the thing in Britain. Do you want to hear how absurd things are there? And how far the anti-Israeli propaganda has gone?"
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