UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese has issued a report naming several US giants among companies aiding Israel’s occupation and war on Gaza. Companies from other countries – from China to Mexico – are also named. 1 Jul 2025
The United Nations special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt) has released a new report mapping the corporations aiding Israel in the displacement of Palestinians and its genocidal war on Gaza, in breach of international law.
Francesca Albanese’s latest report, which is scheduled to be presented at a news conference in Geneva on Thursday, names 48 corporate actors, including United States tech giants Microsoft, Alphabet Inc. – Google’s parent company – and Amazon. A database of more than 1000 corporate entities was also put together as part of the investigation.
“[Israel’s] forever-occupation has become the ideal testing ground for arms manufacturers and Big Tech – providing significant supply and demand, little oversight, and zero accountability – while investors and private and public institutions profit freely,” the report said.
“Companies are no longer merely implicated in occupation – they may be embedded in an economy of genocide,” it said, in a reference to Israel’s ongoing assault on the Gaza Strip. In an expert opinion last year, Albanese said there were “reasonable grounds” to believe Israel was committing genocide in the besieged Palestinian enclave.
The report stated that its findings illustrate “why Israel’s genocide continues”.
“Because it is lucrative for many,” it said.
What arms and tech companies were identified in the report?
Israel’s procurement of F-35 fighter jets is part of the world’s largest arms procurement programme, relying on at least 1,600 companies across eight nations. It is led by US-based Lockheed Martin, but F-35 components are constructed globally.
Italian manufacturer Leonardo S.p.A is listed as a main contributor in the military sector, while Japan’s FANUC Corporation provides robotic machinery for weapons production lines.
The tech sector, meanwhile, has enabled the collection, storage and governmental use of biometric data on Palestinians, “supporting Israel’s discriminatory permit regime”, the report said. Microsoft, Alphabet, and Amazon grant Israel “virtually government-wide access to their cloud and AI technologies”, enhancing its data processing and surveillance capacities.
The US tech company IBM has also been responsible for training military and intelligence personnel, as well as managing the central database of Israel’s Population, Immigration and Borders Authority (PIBA) that stores the biometric data of Palestinians, the report said.
It found US software platform Palantir Technologies expanded its support to the Israeli military since the start of the war on Gaza in October 2023. The report said there were “reasonable grounds” to believe the company provided automatic predictive policing technology used for automated decision-making in the battlefield, to process data and generate lists of targets including through artificial intelligence systems like “Lavender”, “Gospel” and “Where’s Daddy?”
What other companies are identified in the report?
The report also lists several companies developing civilian technologies that serve as “dual-use tools” for Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territory.
These include Caterpillar, Leonardo-owned Rada Electronic Industries, South Korea’s HD Hyundai and Sweden’s Volvo Group, which provide heavy machinery for home demolitions and the development of illegal settlements in the West Bank.
Rental platforms Booking and Airbnb also aid illegal settlements by listing properties and hotel rooms in Israeli-occupied territory.
The report named the US’s Drummond Company and Switzerland’s Glencore as the primary suppliers of coal for electricity to Israel, originating primarily from Colombia.
In the agriculture sector, Chinese Bright Dairy & Food is a majority owner of Tnuva, Israel’s largest food conglomerate, which benefits from land seized from Palestinians in Israel’s illegal outposts. Netafim, a company providing drip irrigation technology that is 80-percent owned by Mexico’s Orbia Advance Corporation, provides infrastructure to exploit water resources in the occupied West Bank.
Treasury bonds have also played a critical role in funding the ongoing war on Gaza, according to the report, with some of the world’s largest banks, including France’s BNP Paribas and the UK’s Barclays, listed as having stepped in to allow Israel to contain the interest rate premium despite a credit downgrade.
Who are the main investors behind these companies?
BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager, is listed as the second largest institutional investor in Palantir (8.6 percent), Microsoft (7.8 percent), Amazon (6.6 percent), Alphabet (6.6 percent) and IBM (8.6 per cent), and the third largest in Lockheed Martin (7.2 percent) and Caterpillar (7.5 percent).
Vanguard, the world’s second-largest asset manager, is the largest institutional investor in Caterpillar (9.8 percent), Chevron (8.9 percent) and Palantir (9.1 percent), and the second largest in Lockheed Martin (9.2 percent) and Israeli weapons manufacturer Elbit Systems (2 percent).
Are companies profiting from dealing with Israel?
Since Israel launched its war on Gaza in October 2023, “entities that previously enabled and profited from Palestinian elimination and erasure within the economy of occupation, instead of disengaging are now involved in the economy of genocide,” the report said.
For foreign arms companies, the war has been a lucrative venture. Israel’s military spending from 2023 to 2024 surged 65 percent, amounting to $46.5bn – one of the highest per capita worldwide.
Several entities listed on the exchange market – particularly in the arms, tech and infrastructure sectors – have seen their profits rise since October 2023. The Tel Aviv Stock Exchange also rose an unprecedented 179 percent, adding $157.9bn in market value.
Global insurance companies, including Allianz and AXA, invested large sums in shares and bonds linked to Israel’s occupation, the report said, partly as capital reserves but primarily to generate returns.
Booking and Airbnb also continue to profit from rentals in Israeli-occupied land. Airbnb briefly delisted properties on illegal settlements in 2018 but later reverted to donating profits from such listings to humanitarian causes, a practice the report referred to as “humanitarian-washing”.
Are private companies liable under international law?
According to Albanese’s report, yes. Corporate entities are under an obligation to avoid violating human rights through direct action or in their business partnerships.
States have the primary responsibility to ensure that corporate entities respect human rights and must prevent, investigate and punish abuses by private actors. However, corporations must respect human rights even if the state where they operate does not.
A company must therefore assess whether activities or relationships throughout its supply chain risk causing human rights violations or contributing to them, according to the report.
The failure to act in line with international law may result in criminal liability. Individual executives can be held criminally liable, including before international courts.
The report called on companies to divest from all activities linked to Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territory, which is illegal under international law.
In July 2024, the International Court of Justice issued an advisory opinion ruling that Israel’s continued presence in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem should come to an end “as rapidly as possible”. In light of this advisory opinion, the UN General Assembly demanded that Israel bring to an end its unlawful presence in the occupied Palestinian territory by September 2025.
Albanese’s report said the ICJ’s ruling “effectively qualifies the occupation as an act of aggression … Consequently, any dealings that support or sustain the occupation and its associated apparatus may amount to complicity in an international crime under the Rome Statute.
“States must not provide aid or assistance or enter into economic or trade dealings, and must take steps to prevent trade or investment relations that would assist in maintaining the illegal situation created by Israel in the oPt.”
War is, in its essence, the competition of capital with other means. The savage war of capital over the redistribution of the fruits of labour and the exploitation of the working masses of the world is the war of the ugly hyenas of the capitalists and the rulers of capitalism to increase their share in the share of the sovereignty of capital and the ownership of the capital and the profits created by us, the workers. The rulers of capital and its statesmen compete in their official assemblies and parliaments to bargain over the share of the public profit produced by the workers. The same process between the social capitals of each country and region is going on daily in international forums, in conferences with other countries. The capitalists and the capitalist governments are advancing this process of competition with the mass murder of the masses more and more and with ever more terrible means.
The first and second imperialist and destructive wars (with about 50 million deaths and the use of nuclear weapons in Nagasaki and Hiroshima), as well as the Korean wars (4.5 to 7 million deaths), Congo (one of the longest wars with nearly 4 million deaths), Rwanda, Palestine and Vietnam (with 3 million deaths), the war between the Iran and Iraq regimes (about 1.5 million deaths and 2 to 3 million injuries), the first Gulf War, the massive attack by the US army in 2003 and the increasingly catastrophic continuation of the dimensions of the use of weapons of mass destruction in this war, which nurtured human and environmental disasters and provided this area of capital with new experiences, and we are going through hundreds of small and local wars. In the wars in Syria and Libya, which have been going on for more than a decade and still have no end in sight, terrible weapons were used that are still shrouded in a halo of ambiguity.
During the extensive bombing of Iraq, in addition to the massive use of conventional weapons and bombs, depleted uranium and white phosphorus weapons were widely used as weapons of mass destruction. These weapons have devastating effects on civilians and the environment. The amount of these weapons used during the first Gulf War was about 340 tons. But this figure increased by about five times during the 2003 invasion by the US military.
In addition, the wars of capitalist states accelerate the machine of production and accumulation of profit and capital, which no capitalist can ignore its benefits and profits. War has a great impact on the development of production, increasing the productivity of labour. In the period of preparation for the Second World War, and during this war, new goods, a huge increase in the productivity of labour, created new weapons of mass destruction, the most important and terrible of which was the atomic weapon.
The capitalist class and its government, its internal blocs, its reformists and fundamentalists, its opposition, its rulers, its right and left, with their arsenals, thinkers, solution-seekers, armies and fearsome suppression apparatuses, have monitored the current state of our movement and its record of many years. They have understood the danger of our stormy campaigns during this period, the danger of several thousand strikes in a year, several thousand protests in a few months, the uprisings of January and November, the danger of the growth and radical rebellion of all these great struggles and uprisings of our future. They are determined to take advantage of every opportunity to crush these growing class campaigns. Their constant war with their rabid class rivals on a global and regional level is one of these strongholds. For forty years, the capitalists and their governments have been spreading the entire cost of the struggle with rivals over shares of profit, property and power on our bread-free table and slaughtered lives. The more acute these competitions and conflicts have become, the more violently our livelihoods, medicine and treatment, housing and living environment and our movement have been attacked. The war between different sections of the bourgeoisie, in any case, of any kind, domestic or foreign, regional or international, is their total war against our class and movement. The capitalists and their governments fight each other for profit and power, they win, they lose, they make peace, they create new blocs, they start parliamentary debates, they use atomic bombs, the important point is that in all these cases they bring all the losses, disasters and gloom of wars upon our lives. This is a catastrophe that always affects our class and the only way to challenge it is to ignite the class and anti-capitalist struggle more rebelliously. Our war is a war against all of them, against wage slavery.
All the efforts of the governments and the poles of capital are to make their war with each other a tool for deepening, expanding, intensifying and further exploding the war of capital against our class. We must also be steadfast and aware everywhere to take advantage of all opportunities to make their internal struggle a tunnel of weapons and the preparation of forces for the most powerful flare-up of the class war against the whole of capitalism. In the current conditions, both sections of the bourgeoisie, the US and Israeli governments on the one hand and the Islamic regime on the other, see themselves in need of increasing pressure on each other. The former want to gain a trump card to extend its dominant role in the structure of American sovereignty by forcing the latter to surrender to its superior regional and global power, and the latter, apart from its expansionist goals, in particular, finds that inciting the conflict is an effective mechanism to prevent our more powerful uprisings. Is there an intention to wage another war like the wars in Iraq or Afghanistan? The immediate evidence suggests otherwise; neither side would win such a war and they are avoiding it.
We, who had no need for any party, union, leader or involvement in any force beyond ourselves for all these struggles, strikes and uprisings, why can’t we elevate our movement to an organized anti-wage slavery council power?! Why can’t we take control of the fate of our work, production and life with this nationwide council power?! Why should we allow a handful of stinking, shameless and opportunistic scavengers to treat us as nothing and nothing?! Call themselves our guardians?! Dream of confiscating our movement and thinking of exercising sovereignty and imposing wage slavery on us?! These are vital questions. These questions must be answered and our answer is to set out, join hands, prepare and get ready to overcome the current situation. We have come this far, the next step is to prepare and equip a council to extract the fruits of our labour and production from the clutches of capital, to launch a war to achieve this goal, to organize class forces for this fight, and to achieve complete control of the council over the fate of our labour, production, and life.
Activists of the movement for the abolition of wage labour July 3, 2025
The companies that support Israel’s war against Gaza
| Unternehmen | Country of origin | Industry/ Role |
| •Lockheed Martin Kampfflugzeugen. •Leonardo S.p.A. •FANUC Corporation Weapons production. •Microsoft (USA) •Alphabet Inc. (Google) (USA) •Amazon (USA) •IBM (USA) •Palantir Technologies | USA Italy Japan USA USA USA USA USA USA | Defense and technology companies Leading in F-35 fighter jets. Weapons production. Weapons production. Cloud, AI, surveillance, data processing, target acquisition. |
| Infrastructure, mechanical engineering and construction | ||
| •Caterpillar (USA) •Rada Electronic Industries •HD Hyundai •Volvo Group | USA Israel daughter of Leonardo South Korea Sweden | Machines for house demolition and housing construction. |
| Weapons and armament technology | ||
| •Lockheed Martin •Leonardo S.p.A. •FANUC Corporation •Rada Electronic Industries | USA Italy Japan | Israel, Daughter of Leonardo |
| Technology and data processing | ||
| •Microsoft •Alphabet Inc. (Google) •Amazon •IBM •Palantir Technologies | USA USA USA USA USA | |
| Construction, machinery and infrastructure | ||
| •Caterpillar •HD Hyundai •Volvo Group | USA South rea Sweden | |
| Tourism and real estate | ||
| •Booking.com •Airbnb | Netherlands USA | Renting in illegal settlements. |
| Energy and raw material suppliers | ||
| •Drummond Company •Glencore | USA Schweiz | |
| Agriculture and Water infrastructure | ||
| •Bright Dairy & Food •Netafim | China Israel and Mexiko | Majority shareholder of Tnuva 80% owned by Orbia Advance Corporation |
| Finance and investment companies | ||
| •BlackRock •Vanguard •BNP Paribas •Barclays •Allianz •AXA • International legal assessment. | USA USA France Great Britain Germany France | Major investors in many of the companies mentioned. Financing through government bonds. Financing through government bonds. Investments in Israel-related securities. Investments in Israel-related securities. According to the report, companies can be held liable under international law. Individuals in leadership positions could also be prosecuted. The report calls for a complete withdrawal from activities that support Israel’s occupation. The report speaks of an “economic system of genocide” that is profitable for many companies. |
| Economic profits | ||
| •Israel’s military spending increased by 65% to USD 46.5 billion in 2023-2024. •The Tel Aviv stock market rose by 179%. |
The report identified US multinational investment companies BlackRock and Vanguard as the main investors behind several listed companies.
BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager, is listed as the second largest institutional investor in Palantir (8.6 percent), Microsoft (7.8 percent), Amazon (6.6 percent), Alphabet (6.6 percent) and IBM (8.6 per cent), and the third largest in Lockheed Martin (7.2 percent) and Caterpillar (7.5 percent).
Vanguard, the world’s second-largest asset manager, is the largest institutional investor in Caterpillar (9.8 percent), Chevron (8.9 percent) and Palantir (9.1 percent), and the second largest in Lockheed Martin (9.2 percent) and Israeli weapons manufacturer Elbit Systems (2 percent). Are companies profiting from dealing with Israel?
The report states that “colonial endeavours and their associated genocides have historically been driven and enabled by the corporate sector.” Israel’s expansion on Palestinian land is one example of “colonial racial capitalism”, where corporate entities profit from an illegal occupation.
Israel’s Use Of 230 Kg US Bomb To Attack Gaza Cafe Is War Crime: Report
- IDF said the strike on the cafe was under review and that “prior to the strike, steps were taken to mitigate the risk of harming civilians using aerial surveillance”.
World News Jul 03, 2025 - Jerusalem:
- The Israeli military reportedly used a US-made 500lb (230kg) bomb to hit a popular seafront cafe frequented by activists, journalists, and local residents in western Gaza City on Monday. On the examination of the ruins Al-Baqa cafe, it was found that Israel used an MK-82 general-purpose 230kg bomb to attack unprotected civilians, including children, women and elderly people.
