Report: UK embassy worker in Israel owns property in illegal West Bank settlement

UK embassy worker in Tel Aviv owns property in a settlement built by an organisation sanctioned by Britain, news organisation The National News reported. 

Gila Ben-Yakov Phillips, a long-time employee of the UK’s embassy in Tel Aviv, has owned a property in Kerem, official records show.

The settlement in the occupied West Bank, where Phillips owns property since 2022, is considered illegal under international law. 

The report said that the settlement is a project of Amana, a settler organisation that the UK placed under sanctions in 2024.