Complicity Exposed: British Taxpayers Bankrolling the ‘Healing’ of Zionist Soldiers Who Ravaged Gaza
Investigation reveals UK charity channels and government tax subsidies are funnelling public money to rehabilitate troops of the elite Yahalom unit responsible for Gaza’s destruction.
LONDON — A shocking new investigation has exposed the depths of British complicity in the Zionist genocide against Gaza, revealing that UK taxpayers’ money has been used to finance psychological “therapeutic healing” for Israeli occupation soldiers who participated in the annihilation of the besieged enclave.
According to an investigation by Declassified UK, the Israeli veterans organisation known as the Yahalom Foundation received undisclosed sums through a British charity, with the UK government even adding a 25% top-up through its Gift Aid tax subsidy scheme. In effect, British citizens are paying to rehabilitate the very soldiers who reduced Gaza to rubble.
Funding the ‘Family of Warriors’
Obtained emails show the Yahalom Foundation — which supports troops of the Israeli military’s elite engineering unit — actively directing British donors to contribute through its “registered partner platform in the UK,” the charity UK Toremet. “Processing your donation through them ensures you receive full tax recognition and enables Gift Aid, maximising the impact of your contribution,” one email stated, adding that “100% of your gift is routed directly to Yahalom to support our core mission.”
Among the listed fundraising projects is a £5,000 “therapeutic healing journey” for soldiers returning from Gaza, alongside funding for “individual psychological treatments.” The foundation is also seeking £100,000 for a memorial hall honouring slain Israeli soldiers, while older records show British donations were used to purchase equipment for soldiers currently serving in the occupation forces.
The hypocrisy is staggering when measured against the Yahalom unit’s record. Trained in explosives and the demolition of tunnels, the unit has played a harrowing role in Gaza, systematically destroying civilian infrastructure, blowing up entire neighbourhoods, and operating inside Palestinian hospitals. “The Yahalom Unit is deployed everywhere in the Gaza Strip,” an Israeli military spokesperson has openly boasted.
A Charity in Name Only
In response to the investigation, UK Toremet admitted providing funding to the Yahalom Foundation for “the provision of PTSD treatment,” insisting that “mental-health treatment to an individual is welfare and medical relief, charitable under English law.”
This defence directly contradicts the Charity Commission’s own explicit warning: “It is not lawful, or acceptable, for a charity to raise funds to support a soldier of a foreign military.” It also clashes with the Yahalom Foundation’s own claim that 100% of donations are routed directly to support its core mission of backing current and former soldiers.
The charity’s pedigree further exposes its political character. UK Toremet was founded by Jonny Cline, a Briton who relocated to occupied Palestine, stood as a candidate for the far-right Jewish Home party, and served as a spokesman for an illegal West Bank settlement.
A Pattern of Funding Occupation
The scandal is part of a much wider pipeline of British money sustaining the Zionist project. Labour MP Melanie Ward revealed that UK Toremet was one of two British organisations that donated a combined £28 million to illegal Israeli settlements — with British taxpayers contributing an additional £5.6 million if Gift Aid was claimed. The Guardian previously reported that UK Toremet acted as a conduit transferring roughly £5.7 million to a high school in a West Bank settlement.
Since 2016, the Charity Commission has opened three separate regulatory compliance cases concerning UK Toremet’s activities in Palestine, even issuing statutory guidance warning the charity it must comply with the Geneva Conventions Act 1957.
‘Another Instance of the UK Failing International Law’
Gearóid Ó Cuinn, director of the Global Legal Action Network (GLAN), condemned the revelations as “another instance of the UK failing to abide by clear obligations under international law to stamp out financial links to international abuses.”
“The UK is not only dragging its feet on the ban on illegal settlement goods imports, but now there is serious concern that public gift aid funds could be used to support Israeli soldiers who have been committing genocide in Gaza and war crimes in the West Bank,” Ó Cuinn added.
While the Charity Commission has launched an inquiry into eight British charities accused of directing funds to illegal settlements, HMRC — which administers Gift Aid — has refused to comment, hiding behind confidentiality rules.
The Hollow Mask of the ‘Rules-Based Order’
The revelations strip away the final veneer of Western moral posturing. While London lectures the world on human rights and international law, its own tax system quietly subsidises the rehabilitation of genocidal soldiers and the entrenchment of illegal apartheid settlements. For the people of Gaza and the West Bank, British complicity is not an abstraction — it is written into the very rubble of their destroyed homes, funded in part by the British taxpayer.
Reference: Al-Mayadeen