Palestine urged global businesses on Tuesday to review their ties with entities listed in the updated UN human rights database of companies involved in illegal Israeli settlement activities in occupied Palestinian territory, Anadolu reports.
Palestine’s permanent representative to the UN in Geneva welcomed the latest update, which now includes 214 companies, 61 of which are newly listed.
“It is clear that many of the 214 listed companies are Israeli enterprises with global supply chain links across multiple countries,” Ibrahim Khraishi told the UN Human Rights Council.
“Any business collaborating with these Israeli firms must reassess those partnerships,” he stated.
The UN rights office confirmed the database now tracks 214 companies across 11 countries engaged in specified settlement-related activities.
The Palestinian envoy praised companies that have exited settlement-related activities, including those that abandoned prior contracts, and urged the UN rights office to publish annual updates.
Five previously listed companies were removed from the update after the office determined their involvement had ceased.
Israel was absent during the presentation and did not exercise its right of reply.
Meanwhile, Spain’s UN representative in Geneva accused Israel of “systematically violating the fundamental rights of civilians, subjecting them to intolerable dehumanization through military campaigns, settler violence, home demolitions, and infrastructure destruction, all amid a total absence of legal security.”
He urged Israel to comply with UN Security Council resolutions, cooperate with human rights mechanisms, and uphold its obligations as an occupying power.
“We reiterate our call for Israel to withdraw from all occupied Arab territories, including the Golan Heights, and from Lebanese territory,” he said. “Israel must immediately reverse its de facto annexation of the occupied territories.”
According to the envoy, the two-state solution remains “the only path to a just and lasting peace.”
