The UN points to 150 companies with activity at the occupied West Bank, among other Booking or Airbnb
The United Nations Office for Human Rights has published an update of its list of companies operating in Israeli illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank. In total, the list already includes 158 signatures, including Americans Airbnb, Expedia and TripAdvisor, and the Dutch Booking. The majority of the companies indicated are Israelis (138), although there are also France, Canada, China, Spain or the United Kingdom.
The update has added the name of four Spaniards: construction and services activities (ACS), the Spanish Society of Industrial Montajes (SEMI), Constructions and Railway Assistant (CAF) and Engineering and Transport Economics (INECO), which according to the organization have participated in rail projects in Israel. In particular, in the tram network of Jerusalem, which joins this city in some of its lines with stops in occupied Palestinian territories.
In this regard, sources from the Spanish Ministry of Transport, on which the Ineco public depends, have explained that the firm only has activity there to conclude the pending contracts, but that it has not been looking for new business opportunities in that country. For its part, ACS has assured that it has no activity in Israel, while Guipuzcoana Caf says, it has not verified “no violation of human rights” in the Jerusalem train project in which it participates, but, on the contrary, “it generates positive impacts on the population as reported reports of independent experts.”
Among the non -Israeli firms highlighted in the list, are the Expedia, Airbnb, TripAdvisor and Booking online reserve platforms; the American Motorola; the French engineering company EGIS and its railway subsidiary, or the British JCB and Greenkote, of the construction sector. The new companies included with the 2025 update are mainly dedicated to activities related to construction, real estate and mining sector, sectors to which the UN has given priority in its recent investigations, while in its next update the security sector will prevail.
The list does not carry sanctions, its character is simply informative. (EFE)
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