Home Office staff have been ordered to flag Palestinian asylum claims for ‘reputational risk’ checks after a former bodyguard to the leader of Hamas was allowed to stay in the UK.
Mr X, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was reportedly granted asylum in 2015 and then British citizenship despite having worked in the personal security detail of Ismail Haniyeh, who led the terror group in Gaza from 2007 to 2017.
A married father in his forties, he now faces extradition to Germany over allegations he used his time in Britain to plot an anti-Semitic terror attack timed to coincide with
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