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Emma Graham-Harrison in Jerusalem and Haroon Siddique in London

Questions for UK embassy in Tel Aviv over employee who owns home in illegal settlement

The UK's embassy in Tel Aviv
The embassy has been accused of undermining the sanctions programme. Photograph: Michael Jacobs/Art in All of Us/Corbis/Getty Images

The British embassy in Tel Aviv may have broken both UK sanctions law and UK government security policies by employing an Israeli citizen who owns a home in an illegal settlement in occupied Palestine, legal experts have said.

The embassy’s deputy head of corporate services and HR, Gila Ben-Yakov Phillips, moved to Kerem Reim in 2022. She listed a house she bought there as her home address on financial documents at the time.

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