The Companies Profiting from Israel’s 2023 Attack on Gaza

The companies listed here have provided Israel with weapons and other military equipment used in its so-called “Swords of Iron” attacks on Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon, and Syria during October-December 2023.

AFSC Action Center on Corporate Accountability

(American Friend Service Committee)

Since Oct. 7, Israel has waged unprecedented aerial and ground attacks on Gaza after Hamas-led attacks on Israel. More than 20,000 Palestinians in Gaza have been killed at a historic pace, mostly women and children, and Israel has destroyed large parts of the Gaza Strip, making them uninhabitable. These attacks have been described by some forty U.N. experts and legal scholars as „a genocide in the making.“ They have been accompanied by a surge of Israeli violence against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, clashes between the Israeli military and militant groups in Lebanon, and Israeli aerial strikes in Syria.

Shortly after Oct. 7, the U.S. government started transferring to Israel massive amounts of weapons. By Dec. 25, Israel received from the U.S. more than 10,000 tons of weapons in 244 cargo planes and twenty ships. These transfers included more than 15,000 bombs and 50,000 artillery shells within just the first month and a half. These transfers have been deliberately shrouded in secrecy to avoid public scrutiny and prevent Congress from exercising any meaningful oversight. A list of known U.S. arms transfers is maintained by the Forum on the Arms Trade.

Some of these weapons were purchased using U.S. taxpayers’ money through the Foreign Military Sales program, while others were direct commercial sales purchased through Israel’s own budget.  An undisclosed amount of weapons was also transferred from U.S. military stockpiles already stored in Israel, known as War Reserves Stock Allies-Israel (WRSA-I). The use of WRSA-I to provide Israel with weapons serves to further obfuscate the full picture of U.S. arms transfers, as there is no public record of what these stockpiles‘ inventory.

The scale of destruction and war crimes in Gaza would not be possible without this continued flow of weapons from the U.S. Despite massive public protests, the Biden administration has been working to give Israel over $14 billion to buy more weapons. This is on top of the $3.8 billion the U.S. already gives to the Israeli military annually. Israel is required to use this money to buy U.S.-made weapons. This is a form of corporate welfare for the largest weapon manufacturers, like Lockheed Martin, RTX, Boeing, and General Dynamics, which have seen their stock prices skyrocket, but also for companies that are not part of the weapon industry, such as Caterpillar, Ford, and Toyota (see below).

As a Quaker organization with a long history of work in Palestine and Israel, including in Gaza, AFSC supports a full arms embargo to both Israeli and Palestinian militant groups. This list focuses on weapons used by Israel because all Palestinian militant groups are already sanctioned and receive no support from Western governments or corporations.

This research relies on media sources, social media, and other open sources. This page is updated regularly as new information comes to light. If you have information that you think we should add, or if you are a researcher or journalist who needs access to the raw data, please contact us.

For a more comprehensive list of publicly traded companies that are involved in the Israeli occupation, accompanied by our divestment recommendations, please refer to our Investigate database.

Read more: https://afsc.org/companies-behind-2023-attack-gaza

PDF: AFSC12.2023

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See also:

US Foreign Policy Is a Scam Built on Corruption

The $1.5 trillion in military outlays each year is the scam that keeps on giving—to the military-industrial complex and the Washington insiders—even as it impoverishes and endangers America and the world.

By Jeffrey D. Sachs

December 26, 2023

https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/corruption-of-us-foreign-policy

German translation: https://overton-magazin.de/top-story/die-us-aussenpolitik-ist-ein-einziger-auf-korruption-basierender-betrug/

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