Secret filming EXPOSES Israeli Settler Group
An Israeli organisation has been caught on camera offering to help British citizens move to an illegal settlement in the West Bank. Declassified can reveal how the group, Shivat Zion, told supporters it could benefit from UK tax subsidies – despite staff bragging about “awesome” settlements.
An undercover investigation saw the group’s “encouragement” officer discussing the support it would give settlers moving to Efrat, in the West Bank. “You’re next to the Arabs; you’ll hear their mosques,” he was recorded saying. “But apart from this, it’s a great living standard.” The comments were made during a Zoom call with a Jewish anti-Zionist activist, who asked Declassified to secretly film the conversation.
In February, the UK government promised to take “concrete steps in accordance with international law to counter settlement expansion”. Foreign minister Hamish Falconer said: “Israel’s illegal settlements and decisions designed to further them are a flagrant violation of international law”.
But Declassified can reveal how Shivat Zion invited supporters to claim UK Gift Aid when making donations. Despite being registered in Israel, it directed donations to a separate charity called UK Toremet Ltd, based near London.
In an email seen by Declassified, a representative from Shivat Zion claimed that donations “go through” the UK Toremet charity, explaining that this “ensures the donations properly reach Shivat Zion”. If money were to be received this way, it could mean that support for illegal settlers could potentially benefit from British tax subsidies.
Israeli forces kill three Palestinians in Gaza, arrest dozens in West Bank
An Israeli air attack has killed at least three people in Gaza, while its forces arrested at least 30 Palestinians in raids across several cities and towns in the occupied West Bank.
Medics at Al-Aqsa Hospital said on Monday the attack targeted a group of men gathered outside a school in Deir el-Balah in central Gaza. The bodies of those killed lay on the ground in white shrouds outside the hospital’s morgue as relatives and friends arrived to bid them farewell. Some kissed the victims’ foreheads before holding special prayers.
There was no immediate comment from the Israeli military. The killings came as mediators met leaders from the Palestinian group Hamas to try to bolster a so-called “ceasefire” brokered by the United States that began last October after two years of a genocidal war on Gaza.
“This isn’t a truce; it’s a trap for our young men. Every day there are martyrs, every single day. How long can this continue?” said Umm Hussam Abu el-Rous, a female relative of one of the victims.
Meanwhile, Israeli forces arrested at least 30 Palestinians in raids across several cities and towns in the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem.
The Palestinian Prisoners Media Office said in a statement that two children and some freed detainees were among those rounded up. The military raids included searches of homes and property damage, it added.
Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza, which began in October 2023, has killed more than 72,000 Palestinians, according to the Gaza Ministry of Health.
Attacks by the Israeli army and settlers in the occupied West Bank have also increased during this period. At least 1,133 Palestinians have been killed, 11,700 others wounded, and nearly 22,000 have been arrested, according to Palestinian figures.
The latest Israeli attacks came as leaders from Hamas and other Palestinian factions have been meeting mediators from Egypt, Turkiye and Qatar in Cairo to discuss implementing the second phase of the fragile “ceasefire” deal.
