Documents found among Snowden\u2019s National Security Agency<\/a>\u00a0(SNA) leak from 2013, indicate that the British Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) collects intelligence on what the paper called the \u201cnumber two of the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs\u201d<\/em> and \u201cambassadors posted in Nairobi, Kenya, and in Abuja, Nigeria.\u201d<\/em> None of the targets were named in Wednesday\u2019s article<\/a>.<\/p>\n Read more<\/p>\n Previous reports by the Wall Street Journal and German magazine Der Spiegel have already revealed how US spies monitored the communications of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his predecessor Ehud Olmert.<\/p>\n These new revelations show how Israel\u2019s closest political allies \u2013 Britain and the United States \u2013 are clearly keeping tabs on all areas of Israeli politics, including government departments, civil servants, and diplomats.<\/p>\n Le Monde also names defense company Ophir Optronics and research centers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem as institutions that have been hacked by GCHQ. Ophir Optronics is known for developing, manufacturing, and dealing in infrared optics and laser measurement equipment \u2013 pivotal elements in modern armaments.<\/p>\n It is believed that GCHQ and the NSA have collected 18 years\u2019 worth of drone transmissions between Israeli army drones, fighter jets, and army bases. The operations of the Israel Defence Force (IDF) in the Gaza Strip were also carefully monitored, amid suspicions that Israel might carry out a strike on Iran.<\/p>\n However, it wasn\u2019t just Israeli information that British spies targeted. Communications between the Palestine Liberation Organization\u2019s (PLO) general secretary and Palestinian delegations across the world were also found to have been hacked between 2008 and 2009.<\/p>\n Le Monde found evidence that British moles retrieved information from the Palestinian Authority with the help of Jordan\u2019s electronic intelligence service, the EWD. \u201cThe EWD alone provides much of the names of individuals targeted by the NSA,\u201d<\/em> a note from the US services found in the archives read.<\/p>\n Yet even the Jordanians were not safe from the prying eyes of the British and Americans. The coordinates of the Jordanian court, King Abdullah II, Jordan\u2019s chief of protocol, and the Jordanian embassy in Washington, were also found among the documents.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Via RT<\/a>. This piece was reprinted by RINF Alternative News<\/a> with permission or license.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" British secret services have been spying on Israel\u2019s diplomats, defense firms, and military, according to documents released by whistleblower Edward Snowden and examined by French newspaper Le Monde. Documents found among Snowden\u2019s National Security Agency\u00a0(SNA) leak from 2013, indicate that the British Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) collects intelligence on what the paper called the \u201cnumber […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":283195,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519,18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-283194","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-newswire","8":"category-latest-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283194\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/283195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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