A British charity, Friends of Yeshivat Shavei Hevron, has donated nearly £200,000 to a religious school in the Israeli settlement inside Hebron (a Palestinian city in the occupied West Bank where several hundred Israeli settlers live under heavy military protection, surrounded by roughly 230,000 Palestinians) between 2019 and 2024, according to filings with the UK Charity Commission. The donations coincide with newly approved construction of a dormitory for the school, greenlit after Israel's far-right finance minister Bezalel Smotrich unilaterally overrode a decades-old international agreement to grant Israel planning authority in the area — a move critics say will deepen what Israeli and international figures, including a former Mossad chief and former Israeli attorney general, have described as an apartheid system in Hebron. The revelations form part of a broader concern raised by Labour MP Melanie Ward, who wrote to the Charity Commission identifying 32 UK-registered charities that have collectively donated at least £28 million to Israeli settlements; UK Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper has since said the commission is investigating, while a Labour peer has separately called for British citizens to be banned from purchasing settlement property.