Overview

• The report identifies 48 firms across mining, technology, shipping and other sectors for allegedly sustaining infrastructure and services that support Israeli settlements in Gaza and the West Bank.
• Francesca Albanese argues these companies profit from an economy she characterizes as built on illegal occupation, apartheid and genocide.
• During her presentation to the UN Human Rights Council, she described conditions in the Palestinian territories as “apocalyptic,” warning of civilians enduring “suffering beyond imagination.”
• Israel’s mission in Geneva denounced the report as “legally groundless, defamatory and a flagrant abuse of office,” and companies such as Glencore, Booking.com, Maersk, Microsoft and Volvo have rejected the allegations as unsubstantiated.
• Albanese called on states to impose sanctions or embargoes and urged consumers to use their purchasing power to pressure firms implicated in alleged rights violations.