{"id":308811,"date":"2025-07-03T17:11:06","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T21:11:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?post_type=document&#038;p=308811"},"modified":"2025-08-06T11:20:39","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T15:20:39","slug":"forever-occupation-genocide-and-profit-special-rapporteur-1967-03jul25","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/forever-occupation-genocide-and-profit-special-rapporteur-1967-03jul25\/","title":{"rendered":"Forever-Occupation, genocide, and profit: Special Rapporteur\u2019s report exposes corporate forces behind destruction of Palestine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/un-human-rights-council-and-the-question-of-palestine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">To learn more about Special Procedures of the Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ Human Rights Council and the Question of Palestine, click here to visit the dedicated webpage.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>03 July 2025<\/p>\n<div class=\"node-news__body\">\n<div class=\"wysiwyg-content field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item\">\n<p>Israel\u2019s genocide against Palestinians is being sustained by a system of exploitative occupation and profit, a Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ expert warned today in a new\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/a-hrc-59-23-from-economy-of-occupation-to-economy-of-genocide-report-special-rapporteur-francesca-albanese-palestine-2025\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">report<\/a><\/em>\u00a0to the Human Rights Council that reveals how corporate profiteering and monetary gain has enabled and legitimised Israel\u2019s illegal presence and actions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the past 21 months, while Israel\u2019s genocide has devastated Palestinian lives and landscapes, the Tel Aviv stock exchange soared by 213 percent (USD), amassing $225.7 billion in market gains\u2014including $67.8 billion in the past month alone. For some, genocide is profitable,\u201d said Francesca Albanese, the Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territory occupied since 1967.<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-shortcode\"><iframe title=\"Francesca Albanese \u201cIsrael is responsible for one of the cruelest genocides in modern history\u201d\" width=\"1320\" height=\"743\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PMuHGrOB_v0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Albanese\u2019s report exposes the corporate infrastructure profiting from Israel\u2019s economy of occupation \u2014 and its deadly transformation into an economy of genocide. The report underscores how Palestine has become the epicentre of a global reckoning, exposing the failure of international business and legal systems to uphold even the most basic rights of one of the world\u2019s most dispossessed peoples.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCorporate actors are deeply entwined in the system of occupation, apartheid and genocide in the occupied Palestinian territory,\u201d the Special Rapporteur said. \u201cFor decades, Israel\u2019s repression of Palestinian people has been scaffolded by corporations, fully aware of and yet indifferent to, decades of human rights violations and international crimes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Forty-eight separate corporate actors, along with their parents, subsidiaries, franchisees, licensees and consortium partners across sectors are identified in the Special Rapporteur\u2019s report, including weapons manufacturers, technological corporations, financial institutions and construction and energy firms.<\/p>\n<p>Albanese found that these entities have failed their most basic legal responsibilities to exercise their leverage to bring an end to the violation at stake or terminate relations and disengage. Instead, they have treated Israel\u2019s illegal enterprise in the occupied Palestinian territory as ordinary economic activity\u2014wilfully ignoring documented, systemic abuses, even as atrocities mounted after 7 October 2023.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese actors have entrenched and expanded Israel\u2019s settler-colonial logic of displacement and replacement \u2013 and this is not accidental,\u201d the Special Rapporteur said. \u201cIt is the function of an economy built to dominate, dispossess, and erase Palestinians from their land.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The report named companies supplying F-35s, drones, and targeting tech that enabled 85,000 tons of bombs \u2013 six times the amount of Hiroshima \u2013 to be unleashed on Gaza. It highlighted tech giants that have set up R&amp;D hubs and data centres in Israel, using Palestinian data for AI warfare, fueling what Albanese calls a \u2018livestreamed genocide.\u2019 The report points to energy giants having fuelled Israel\u2019s blockade, while construction companies continued to supply the equipment that has turned Gaza to rubble and prevented the return and reconstitution of Palestinian life. Even seemingly neutral actors \u2013 tourism sites, supermarkets, and universities are normalising apartheid and the systematic erasure of Palestinian life, the Special Rapporteur\u2019s report found.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis report shows why Israel\u2019s genocide continues: because it is lucrative for many,\u201d Albanese said. She warned that the International Court of Justice 2024 rulings and the ICC arrest warrants should have put all actors\u2014including corporations\u2014on notice.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe serious, structural and sustained nature of Israel\u2019s crimes and violations triggered a\u00a0<em>prima facie<\/em>\u00a0responsibility to disengage \u2014 one that many corporations ignored,\u201d she said. \u201cCorporate fixation on narrow technicalities and isolated violations rather than confronting the structural illegality of their ties to Israel\u2019s occupation is disingenuous,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Albanese urged member states to impose a full arms embargo, suspend trade and investment agreements, and hold corporate entities accountable for violations of international law.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMeanwhile, corporations cannot claim neutrality: they are either part of the machinery of displacement\u2014or part of dismantling it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPalestine is a mirror held up to the world\u2019s moral and political failures,\u201d she said. Recalling reckonings over corporate complicity in apartheid South Africa and Nazi Germany, Albanese said Palestine today represents a defining moment of whether global markets can exist without promoting and profiting from injustice and impunity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEnding this genocide requires not only outrage but rupture, reckoning, and the courage to dismantle what enables it.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"node-news__text-block\">\n<div class=\"field field--name-field-components-list field--type-entity-reference-revisions field--label-hidden field__items\">\n<div class=\"field__item\">\n<div class=\"paragraph-bg-color paragraph para-text container paragraph--type--text-component paragraph--view-mode--default\">\n<div class=\"para-text--description wysiwyg-content\">\n<p><strong>The Expert: Francesca Albanese<\/strong>;<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ohchr.org\/en\/special-procedures\/sr-palestine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u00a0Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong><em>Read the Report here:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/a-hrc-59-23-from-economy-of-occupation-to-economy-of-genocide-report-special-rapporteur-francesca-albanese-palestine-2025\/\"><div class=\"fusion-button-wrapper\"><a class=\"fusion-button button-flat fusion-button-default-size button-default fusion-button-default button-1 fusion-button-default-span fusion-button-default-type\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/a-hrc-59-23-from-economy-of-occupation-to-economy-of-genocide-report-special-rapporteur-francesca-albanese-palestine-2025\/\"><span class=\"fusion-button-text awb-button__text awb-button__text--default\">A\/HRC\/59\/23: From economy of occupation to economy of genocide &#8211; Report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967 (Advance unedited version) &#8211; Question of Palestine<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; To learn more about Special Procedures of the Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ Human Rights Council and the Question of Palestine, click here to visit the dedicated webpage. 03 July 2025 Israel\u2019s genocide against Palestinians is being sustained by a system of exploitative occupation and profit, a Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ expert warned today in a new\u00a0report\u00a0to the Human Rights Council <a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/forever-occupation-genocide-and-profit-special-rapporteur-1967-03jul25\/\"> [&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"country":[],"document-category":[1329],"document-source":[6854],"committee-meeting":[],"document-subject":[1769,1829,1937,2005,1741,6880],"entity":[1729],"document-language":[6542],"class_list":["post-308811","document","type-document","status-publish","hentry","document-category-press-release","document-source-special-rapporteur-on-the-situation-of-human-rights-in-the-palestinian-territories-occupied-since-1967","document-subject-armed-conflict","document-subject-casualties","document-subject-economic-issues","document-subject-gaza-strip","document-subject-human-rights-and-international-humanitarian-law","document-subject-occupying-power","entity-united-nations-system","document-language-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/308811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/document"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/308811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":309939,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/308811\/revisions\/309939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=308811"},{"taxonomy":"document-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-category?post=308811"},{"taxonomy":"document-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-source?post=308811"},{"taxonomy":"committee-meeting","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/committee-meeting?post=308811"},{"taxonomy":"document-subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-subject?post=308811"},{"taxonomy":"entity","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/entity?post=308811"},{"taxonomy":"document-language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-language?post=308811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}