AOAV reflects on Cardinal Pizzaballa’s call to confront the “mystery of lawlessness” — the moral collapse revealed by Gaza’s devastation and the global normalisation of suffering in an age that confuses power with justice.
Donald Trump’s Gaza ceasefire may have halted the killing, but its vague promises and absence of accountability risk turning a fragile truce into the prelude to another war.
The Ministry of Defence admits RAF surveillance flights over Gaza since December 2023 but refuses to disclose their scale, while AOAV’s investigation suggests hundreds of sorties closely coincided with Israeli assaults, raising fears of British complicity in alleged war crimes.
A UN inquiry has found Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, leaving the UK at risk of complicity through its arms sales, military support, and intelligence sharing.
At The Conduit in London, Wael al-Dahdouh, Ramita Navai and Jon Williams spoke with AOAV's Iain Overton about the systematic targeting of journalists in Gaza, Western media’s complicity, and the urgent need for accountability and protection.
In a BBC News interview, AOAV’s Executive Director Iain Overton detailed that of 52 Israeli military investigations into alleged war crimes in Gaza and the West Bank since October 2023, almost all ended without accountability, highlighting deep flaws in Israel’s system of self-investigation.
The Ministry of Defence has refused to reveal how many RAF surveillance flights have taken place over Gaza since October 2023, citing national security concerns.
Israel’s refusal to release the underlying data behind its claimed Gaza combatant deaths creates a dangerous transparency gap, Professor Mike Spagat argues, undermining efforts to establish the true human cost of the war.
Israel’s leaked intelligence showing that 83% of Gaza’s dead are civilians confirms AOAV’s long-standing findings that explosive weapons in populated areas overwhelmingly kill non-combatants.
The Ministry of Defence is reportedly poised to award a £2bn training contract to Elbit Systems, Israel’s largest arms firm and a key supplier in Gaza, sparking concerns that Britain is deepening its reliance on a company accused of fuelling civilian harm.
Leaked recordings of former Israeli intelligence chief Aharon Haliva reveal he advocated the mass killing of Palestinians (fifty for every Israeli killed on October 7) casting Gaza’s death toll as a deliberate “Nakba” meant to teach future generations.
A US military contractor hired by Britain to conduct surveillance over Gaza operated above Nuseirat refugee camp the night before an Israeli bombing killed over 30 Palestinians in December 2024.