UN Report Names Corporations Profiting from Gaza Genocide

UN Exposes Corporate Complicity in Israeli Atrocities

On June 30, 2025, the United Nations released a comprehensive report implicating more than 60 multinational companies in facilitating and profiting from Israel’s ongoing genocide and settler-colonial expansion across Gaza and the West Bank. Authored by Francesca Albanese, the UN Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories, the report details the financial, logistical, and technological support provided by corporations to sustain what it describes as an “economy of genocide.”

The findings follow a year-long investigation involving over 200 submissions from states, activists, academics, and legal experts. Albanese previously documented the genocidal campaign in Gaza in two other major reports in 2024.

From Displacement to Replacement

Albanese’s latest report outlines a three-tiered system of colonial erasure: the forced displacement of Palestinians, their replacement by illegal Israeli settlers, and the eventual erasure of Palestinian identity and presence. Companies have been central to this system — not only enabling home demolitions and land theft, but also transforming these acts into profitable ventures.

Heavy equipment suppliers such as Caterpillar, Volvo, HD Hyundai, and Doosan were cited for supplying machinery used to raze Palestinian homes and farmland, particularly in East Jerusalem, Masafer Yatta, Rafah, and Jabalia. Their equipment has also been used in military incursions, including attacks on hospitals and civilian infrastructure.

Meanwhile, firms like Heidelberg Materials AG have been accused of pillaging natural resources from occupied territory, such as dolomite rock from West Bank quarries, to fuel illegal settlement construction.

Tourism, Real Estate, and the Whitewashing of Occupation

Online platforms like Booking.com and Airbnb were found to profit by promoting settlement properties while excluding Palestinians. Listings in Israeli colonies rose sharply after October 2023, with descriptions presenting settler communities as peaceful holiday destinations — a move the UN views as whitewashing systemic violence.

American real estate firm Keller Williams Realty also marketed and sold properties in these settlements to international buyers. Such practices, the report argues, help normalize and entrench the displacement of Palestinians by promoting a facade of development and opportunity.

Tech, Surveillance, and the Business of Elimination

A number of Big Tech firms, including Amazon, Google, Microsoft, IBM, and Palantir, have provided cloud services, AI surveillance systems, and other tools used by Israeli forces to monitor, detain, and target Palestinians. This high-tech infrastructure supports Israel’s efforts to control and eliminate Palestinian life and resistance, particularly in Gaza, where aerial bombardments intensified after October 2023.

Additionally, defense giants such as Lockheed Martin, Elbit Systems, Leonardo, and FANUC have supplied fighter jets, drones, and automated weapons systems that have been deployed throughout the campaign. Tens of thousands of Palestinians have been killed and maimed as a result of the bombing of Gaza, which was carried out using these weapons.

The Role of Finance and Energy

The report also highlights the financial institutions bankrolling the war effort. Together, BlackRock, Vanguard, PIMCO, Barclays, and BNP Paribas have made billions of dollars’ worth of investments in Israeli government bonds and businesses that are closely associated with illegal settlements and military activities.

Meanwhile, energy firms such as Chevron, BP, Drummond Company, and Glencore were found to supply Israel with fossil fuels essential for powering its military campaign, even after some countries suspended coal exports in protest.

Calls for Accountability and Action

Francesca Albanese stressed that companies enabling or profiting from violations in occupied Palestinian territory may be complicit in international crimes under the Rome Statute. She called on governments to impose arms embargoes, suspend trade agreements with Israel, and hold corporations legally liable for their involvement.

In addition, she urged citizens, unions, and civil society organizations to escalate boycotts, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) campaigns targeting firms complicit in human rights abuses.

“Economic interests must not outweigh human lives,” Albanese asserted in her concluding appeal. She emphasized that dismantling this profit-driven system of genocide will require sustained international pressure, legal accountability, and moral clarity from both institutions and individuals.

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Ms Francesca Albanese, the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights, has identified the corporations which are complicit in the Genocide in Gaza. Needless to say, the West, led by the US, is after her blood. Blessed are those who dare utter the Truth!

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