Palestinian citizen of Israel granted UK asylum in case said to be unprecedented

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“Hasan”, whose real identity is not being disclosed for his own protection, has attended pro-Palestinian protests in the UK, and his lawyers also argued that his activism would place him at increased risk of hostile attention on his return.

However, the Home Office unexpectedly caved in on Monday and granted Hasan asylum, so avoiding a hearing in which his legal team were intending to argue that Palestinian citizens of Israel were unsafe, and in particular those that were willing to speak out.

It was Hasan’s belief, his lawyers said, that Israel was governed by “an apartheid regime that engages in systematic and pervasive discrimination, persecution and violence touching on all aspects of Palestinian life”.

Hasan’s lawyers had made a supplementary claim after the start of the Hamas-Israel war, which followed Hamas’s surprise attack on southern Israel on 7 October 2023.

A Home Office spokesperson added: “All asylum claims are carefully considered on their individual merits in accordance with the immigration rules.

British foreign policy towards Israel, initially strongly supportive after the Hamas attack, has shifted in recent weeks to focusing on the need for a humanitarian pause in the fighting in Gaza, where the bulk of the strip’s 2.3 million prewar population are sheltering in dire conditions in and around Rafah in the south.

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