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130 Companies, 23 Countries: Investigation Reveals International Infrastructure Behind Israel’s Wars by The Palestine Chronicle

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An open-source investigation by Arabi Post identified 130 companies from 23 countries across six continents that continued supplying Israel with weapons, technologies, logistical support and industrial services from October 2023 through May 2026.

The report argued that these supply chains remained active despite repeated international calls and UN measures urging states to halt arms transfers linked to Israel’s military operations.

According to the investigation, the support structure extended beyond direct weapons production and represented what researchers described as a broad multinational industrial ecosystem sustaining Israeli operations in Gaza, the occupied West Bank, Lebanon, Syria and Iran.

Continue reading at https://www.palestinechronicle.com/130-companies-23-countries-investigation-reveals-international-infrastructure-behind-israels-wars/

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Corporate Japan deals an unwitting blow to US East Asia policy by Saul J Takahashi

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  • Japanese trading giant Itochu’s surprise announcement on February 5 that it was terminating its agreement with the Israeli defence contractor Elbit Systems has sent shockwaves throughout corporate Japan. Itochu stated specifically that they based their decision on the International Court of Justice ruling that Israel may be committing genocide in Gaza, and on the position of the Japanese government that the ICJ decision must be implemented “in good faith”.

Continue reading at https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2024/2/19/corporate-japan-deals-an-unwitting-blow-to-us-east-asia-policy

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States defunding UNRWA may be violating genocide convention: expert on The New Arab

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  • A UN expert warned Sunday that countries defunding the UN agency for Palestinian refugees were breaching a court order to provide effective aid in Gaza and could be violating the international genocide convention.
  • A number of donor countries – including Australia, Britain, Finland, Germany and Italy – on Saturday followed the lead of the United States in suspending additional funding to UNRWA.
  • That came after Israel alleged that several of the UN agency’s staff members were involved in Hamas’s 7 October attack. The Israeli allegations were based on confessions obtained in interrogations and have not been independently investigated. Israel has killed more than 150 UNRWA staff in Gaza since the start of its latest offensive on Gaza.
  • Francesca Albanese, the UN special rapporteur for the occupied Palestinian territories, warned that the decision to pause funding to UNRWA “overtly defies” the order by the International Court of Justice to allow effective humanitarian assistance” to reach Gazans.
  • “This will entail legal responsibilities – or the demise of the (international) legal system,” she wrote on X, formerly Twitter.

Watch at https://www.newarab.com/news/gaza-defunding-unrwa-may-be-violating-genocide-convention