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2026
Campaigners warn UK PM that approving Rosebank oil field could breach West Bank sanctions over Delek Group links
Issue disclosure
Environmental campaigners from Stop Rosebank and Greenpeace, assisted by Uplift, and Green Party leader Zack Polanski separately wrote to UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham and Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband warning that approving Rosebank, Britain's largest untapped oil field off Shetland, risks contravening the UK's new sanctions on illegal Israeli West Bank settlements because of the field's links to Delek Group. Delek Group was included last year in a UN database of firms which allegedly provide services or utilities to support settlements in occupied Palestinian territories, and Delek controls Ithaca Energy, which holds a 20% stake in Rosebank. The campaigners asked the government to confirm whether Delek will be caught by the new measures. Delek said it no longer has any involvement in settlements, was wrongly included in the database, and intends with its legal advisers to formally challenge the listing and request its immediate removal; Ithaca Energy issued a statement defending its corporate governance.
Stated objective. To ask the government to confirm, unequivocally, whether Delek will be caught by the new planned measures, and what steps it would take to make sure revenue from UK oil and gas production did not finance illegal settlements
Company response
Denial — Delek Group
it no longer had any involvement in Israeli settlements and was wrongly included in the database
Remediation — Delek Group
Together with our legal advisers, we intend to formally challenge this and request the immediate removal of our name from the UN database
Clarification — Ithaca Energy
Ithaca Energy is a London Stock Exchange listed company which is a member of the FTSE 100, and which is governed by the highest standards of corporate governance
Source excerpt
The prime minister has been warned that approving a controversial oil field risks contravening his own sanctions on illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank.
Environmental campaigners and Green Party leader Zack Polanski have both separately written to Andy Burnham and the foreign secretary to raise concerns about Rosebank's links to an Israeli company, Delek Group.
asking what steps the government would take to make sure revenue from UK oil and gas production did not finance illegal settlements
2021
KLP divestment over settlement concerns
Norwegian pension fund KLP said it would divest from Delek and other entities included in the United Nations database because of their reported links to Israeli settlement activity in the West Bank.
2020
United Nations database on settlement-linked business activity
The United Nations published a database naming Delek among companies it associated with the provision of services or utilities supporting Israeli settlements and with commercial use of natural resources in occupied territories. The listing generated criticism and later investment-screening consequences.