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UN Pares Down List of Firms Doing Business with Israeli Settlements

A general view shows the Jewish settlement of Kedar in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, June 25, 2023. (Reuters)
A general view shows the Jewish settlement of Kedar in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, June 25, 2023. (Reuters)
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UN Pares Down List of Firms Doing Business with Israeli Settlements

A general view shows the Jewish settlement of Kedar in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, June 25, 2023. (Reuters)
A general view shows the Jewish settlement of Kedar in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, June 25, 2023. (Reuters)

The UN rights office has updated a list of companies doing business with Israeli settlements, removing 15 companies from the database that were no longer involved, a spokesperson said on Friday.

The long-awaited update was limited in scope due to budget restrictions and was only able to review the original list of 112 companies, UN human rights spokesperson Ravina Shamdasani told a press briefing.

The database was mandated by the UN Human Rights Council in 2016 but was not released until 2020.

Most of the firms it named were domiciled in Israel, but it also included international firms listed in the United States, Britain and France, among others.

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Israel Is Ramping up Annexation of West Bank, UN Rights Chief Says 

Israeli army vehicles block a road during an Israeli military operation in the West Bank city of Jenin, 14 March 2025. (EPA)
Israeli army vehicles block a road during an Israeli military operation in the West Bank city of Jenin, 14 March 2025. (EPA)
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Israel Is Ramping up Annexation of West Bank, UN Rights Chief Says 

Israeli army vehicles block a road during an Israeli military operation in the West Bank city of Jenin, 14 March 2025. (EPA)
Israeli army vehicles block a road during an Israeli military operation in the West Bank city of Jenin, 14 March 2025. (EPA)

Israel has significantly expanded and consolidated settlements in the occupied West Bank as part of the steady integration of these territories into the State of Israel, in breach of international law, the UN human rights office said on Tuesday.

The report to be presented to the UN Human Rights Council later this month comes amid growing fears of annexation amid US policy shifts under President Donald Trump and new settler outposts in areas of the West Bank seen as part of a future Palestinian state.

"The transfer by Israel of parts of its own civilian population into the territory it occupies amounts to a war crime," UN High Commissioner Volker Turk said in a statement accompanying the report, urging the international community to take meaningful action on Israel’s advancing settlement.

"Israel must immediately and completely cease all settlement activities and evacuate all settlers, stop the forcible transfer of the Palestinian population, and prevent and punish attacks by its security forces and settlers," he said.

Israel disengaged from the UN Human Rights Council earlier this year, alleging a chronic anti-Israeli bias. Its military says it is conducting counter-terrorism operations in the West Bank and targeting suspected militants.