Overview

• The UN OHCHR report confirms Orbia Advance holds an 80 percent stake in Netafim and aligns its drip-irrigation systems with Israeli settlement expansion imperatives.
• Netafim’s technology has accelerated intensive water extraction in the Jordan Valley, threatening the Jordan River and Dead Sea while forcing Palestinian farmers off 93 percent of their irrigable land.
• Orbia Advance is the sole Latin American firm named in the report and is controlled by Mexico’s Del Valle family, led today by Juan Pablo and Antonio del Valle Perochena.
• Titled “De la economía de la ocupación a la economía del genocidio,” the report was authored under Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese, who has since been sanctioned by the US government.
• The findings have renewed calls for corporate accountability over resource exploitation and highlighted the mix of private-sector influence and geopolitical conflict in occupied territories.