SAS troops at the moment are in Cyprus on standby for hostage rescue missions in Gaza.
The elite soldiers are additionally braced to free UK residents trapped by the massacre.
Some 200 Brits are stranded in Gaza after Israel and Egypt sealed the strip’s borders and 5 are held there by Hamas terrorists.
Britain’s navy bases in Cyprus provide a strategic presence within the jap Med.
And the SAS sabre squadron has been joined on the island by a 100-strong crisis command team.
Their major focus is the Gaza Strip however officers concern the battle may unfold, trapping extra Brits in Egypt’s Sinai peninsular and Lebanon.
The SAS in Cyprus have the Particular Forces Help Group with them and a fleet of their modified helicopters.
The same joint pressure scrambled to Cyprus forward of the Khartoum Airlift that rescued some 2,000 from war-torn Sudan in spring.
A supply advised The Solar: “The UK has permanent bases in Cyprus.
“You’ll count on us to utilize them when there’s a disaster within the area like this.”
Defence and Border Power employees have additionally been deployed to Egypt within the hope that Cairo relaxes its chokehold on Gaza’s Rafah border crossing.
The MoD refused to touch upon particulars of Particular Forces operations.
In the meantime, the Israeli Military’s most elite preventing pressure Sayeret Matkal is prone to spearhead any hostage rescue in Gaza.
The shadowy unit, who put on maroon berets, are modelled on the SAS and have the identical “Who Dares Wins” motto.
Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu is a former crew chief within the crack navy group, as was his brother.
Yonatan Netanyahu was killed within the well-known air hijack hostages rescue involving Sayeret Matkal commandoes at Entebbe, Uganda, in 1976.