Do US military cargo planes carry arms to Israel though Turkey?
Details of two curious flight paths of US military cargo planes have raised the possibility that Washington may be using a military base in Turkey to supply Israel in its war against Gaza.
A US military C-130J cargo plane, with the call sign of HKY130 and the registration number 19-5932 registration, flew from US Aviano air base in Italy to Turkey’s Incirlik on 3 November.
The cargo plane later took off from Turkey and landed in RAF Akrotiri on 5 November, a major British military base in Cyprus.
The flight was noted by Declassified UK, an investigative website which first spotted the flight, that RAF Akrotiri had not received any flights from Incirlik in the two months before Israel’s bombing of Gaza, according to records.
The flight was also interesting for another reason: its original takeoff location, the Aviano air base, is home to the US 31st Munitions Squadron, which maintains combat ready stockpiles, people and equipment.