Pro-terrorist "human rights" group Amnesty International has attacked Britain for buying unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) from Israel and for letting Israeli soldiers train British forces in use of the UAVs. British news sources have quoted the organization's criticism. 

Sky News reported that Britain is buying 30 Watchtower WK450 UAVs that  are based on the Israeli Elbit Hermes 450 system, in a deal worth close to1.5 billion dollars. Britain already owns Israeli UAVs of an earlier model, which are named Watchkeepers.
 
Amnesty International (AI), a "human rights" groups with a track record of preference for Arab rights over Jewish ones, claimed that the drones were "field-tested on Palestinians" during the three-week Cast Lead  campaign of 2008-9, in which Israel invaded Gaza in a bid to end eight years of missile attacks upon Israeli civilians.
The fact that Royal Artillery soldiers are trained in using the drones in Israel has aroused more controversy. The pro-Arab groups claim that the IDF soldiers training the British may be "war criminals" themselves.
 
A British government spokesman said that "small numbers of British Forces travel to Israel for contractor-provided pre-deployment training on the unarmed Hermes 450 UAV." The UAVs are manufactured by Israeli defense technology company Elbit and its partner firm, Thales UK.
 
The British spokesman said British troops in Israel were only only being trained, and have "no involvement" in the operational use of unmanned aerial vehicles in Israel. "Our absolute priority is ensuring British troops on the front line are equipped with and trained on the very best capabilities. UAV systems provide vital intelligence and surveillance, enhancing situational awareness on the battlefield and helping to save the lives of UK Forces."
 
Two years ago it was reported that a series of Watchkeeper trials were canceled because the British Government objected to them being conducted in Judea and Samaria, the Biblical heart of the Land of Israel, which is heavily populated by Arabs. 
 
“It was wholly inappropriate for UK forces to be trained in the use of drones by an entity with a track record of applying this technology in grave abuses of people's human rights,” AI UK's campaigns director Tim Hancock told Sky News. “There is already growing international concern over the use of drones in remote unlawful killings - sometimes amounting to extrajudicial executions,” he added. 
 
According to NGO Monitor, AI claims that it "does not support or oppose any government or political system," but has disproportionately singled out Israel for condemnation. AI's Finland chairman Frank Johansson has called Israel a "scum state."