Caterpillar
More than 18,000 Palestinian homes have been demolished by the Israeli military since 1967.19 Caterpillar has sold D9 bulldozers to the IDF knowing they would be used to unlawfully demolish homes and endanger civilians. The IDF’s home demolitions are part of a broad-reaching practice of collective punishment through ‘demographic engineering.’ In addition to forcibly displacing more than 70,000 civilians, home demolitions have injured and killed Palestinian civilians.20
United Technologies
United Technologies Corporation subsidiary Pratt & Whitney develops engines for Israeli F-15 and F-16 jets used in Israel’s 2008-09 and 2014 assaults on the Gaza Strip that killed thousands of Palestinians, the majority civilians, as well as in repeated airstrikes that killed civilians in Gaza in 2018.31
UT subsidiary Pratt & Whitney also manufactures engines used in Israeli Eitan and Shoval drones, which were deployed in Israel’s 2014 assault on Gaza.32
Lockheed-Martin
Lockheed Martin has provided the Israeli military with F-16 fighter jets, Longbow Hellfire missiles, AH-64 Apache Helicopter parts, and other weapons.41 According to a UN Fact-Finding Mission, Israel carried out attacks with F-16 aircraft on civilian homes and refugee camps during Operation Cast Lead in 2008-09.42 A report by Amnesty International found that Israeli forces used Hellfire missiles produced by Lockheed Martin in their repeated attacks upon clearly marked ambulances and paramedics in uniform.
OakTree Capital
Oaktree holds major waste, water, and energy management contracts for illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank. Israel’s rapidly-growing West Bank settlements are illegal under international law, and Amnesty International has called the settlements a war crime.24 25 Settlements are built on land from which Palestinians have been forcibly removed,26 yet Palestinians are forbidden from living in them. Oaktree’s contracts include the massive Tovlan landfill, which has been connected to health hazards in the area. The Tovlan landfill also produces electricity which is supplied to illegal settlements, while neighboring Palestinian towns are denied electricity entirely.27 28
Boeing
Boeing provides Israel with Hellfire missiles, Apache attack helicopters, and F-15A fighter jets, all of which were central to Israel’s assaults on Gaza in 2008-09 and 2014.29
More than 1,300 Palestinians were killed in the 2008-09 attacks. More than 2,200 more, including more than 500 children, were killed during 2014’s “Operation Protective Edge.” In both cases the majority of those killed were civilians. Defense for Children International documented at least 13 children killed by missiles fired directly from Apache helicopters in the 2014 attacks. The UN has accused Israel of committing war crimes during the 2014 operation.30
G4s
G4S holds 50% of Policity Ltd. which in 2015 built the Israeli Police National Academy near the city of Beit Shemesh. Policity has also operated the Academy since its inauguration, and has a contract to continue operating and expanding it until 2035.53 Israeli Police forces regularly engage in brutality towards Palestinians as well as Ethiopian-Israelis.54 Israel also plans to use the Academy in the future to train some of its other security forces, such as the Israeli Prison Service and Border Police.55
G4S also holds major contracts with ICE in the US, and runs private prisons and immigrant detention centers around the world. A 2017 UK Equality and Human Rights report exposed “deliberate acts of humiliation and abhorrent abuse towards detainees who are mentally unwell and vulnerable” at G4S-run UK immigrant detention facilities.56
Motorola
Motorola supplies the Israeli military with the Tadiran communication encryption systems for the Merkava battle tank.33 Motorola also supplies radar detection “virtual fence” technology which is used to bar Palestinians from illegal settlements and maintain Israel’s Apartheid Wall.34 In 2004, the International Court of Justice deemed the wall illegal under international law.35
In the US, Motorola provides tech services that allow ICE to track and monitor undocumented people.36 Motorola is considered a ‘prime contractor’ for the Department of Homeland Security, providing software that provides access to personal information via multiple government databases. 37 The Department of Homeland Security, which oversees ICE and Customs and Border Protection, is responsible for the deaths of 24 immigrants in detention in the past three years.38
AB Volvo
AB Volvo wheel loaders were used to demolish houses in the Palestinian village of Umm al-Khayr. Volvo track excavators and wheel loaders have also been used for demolitions in the Palestinian neighborhoods of Tzur Baher, Silwan, Wadi Qaddum, Sheikh Jarrah, Beit Hanina and Issawiya in East Jerusalem and the city of Lod. The UN and the EU have called Israeli demolitions of Palestinian homes a violation of international law.39
AB Volvo is also a major stakeholder in the company Merkavim, which supplies the segregated buses which run between illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank.40
Raytheon
Israel used F-16 aircraft armed with Raytheon missiles in its 2008-09 assault on Gaza that killed 1,383 Palestinians, of whom 333 were children, and injured another 5,300 people.44 Sa’ar missile ships with Raytheon Phalanx weapon systems are used to enforce the illegal naval siege of the Gaza Strip. In 2016, UN Secretary-General Ban ki-Moon condemned the blockade of Gaza as “collective punishment” and called for accountability.45 Experts from Amnesty International believe that Paveway bombs, most likely produced by Raytheon, were also used in several airstrikes on Gaza during Israel’s 2014 assault on Gaza in which 2,251 Palestinians were killed, of whom 1,462 were civilians.46 47
Raytheon supplied bombs to the Saudi-led war in Yemen, where one of its bombs was used to kill six children and wound many more.48 Amnesty International has asserted that Raytheon has made insignificant efforts to ensure that its products are not used to violate human rights.49 In addition, Raytheon sells armed drones with the Raytheon Multi-Spectral Targeting System to US Customs and Border Patrol, who described the tool as “weapons designed to immobilize" immigrants and refugees.50
Northrop Grumman
Northrup-Grumman develops parts for F-16 fighters, Apache helicopters and other weapons systems used in Israel’s assaults on the Gaza Strip in 2008-09 and 2014, as well as repeated airstrikes in 2018, that have killed thousands of civilians.
Northrup-Grumman missile systems were also used by Israel in its 2006 ground and aerial bombardment of Lebanon, an assault that killed over 1,100 people, of whom approximately one third were children. Israeli forces deliberately targeted Lebanon’s civilian infrastructure, and displaced over one million people.
Northrop Grumman provides biometric database systems, radar and drone technology used by US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) at the US-Mexico border to track and detain refugees and immigrants.52 Northrop Grumman also contracts with the US Department of Homeland Security to assist in the development of a biometric database that will include facial recognition data, DNA, political affiliations and social media behavior.