Geneva: The United Nations released a long-standing update on its database of companies in the Palestinian territory’s Israeli settlements, listing 158 companies from 11 countries.
Volker Turk, head of rights of the United Nations, condemned Israel’s policy of settlement in Palestinian territory in the occupied West Bank.
The non-excluded database shows that big companies such as Airbnb, Booking.com, Booking.com, Motorola Solutions and Trip Advisor are still on the list, while several others have been removed.
Most companies are in Israel, while others are headquartered in the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Canada, Germany, China, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Spain and Portugal.
68 new companies added to the 2023 list
The UN Rights Office report calls on companies to “take appropriate action to address the advertising human rights impacts of their activities”. It stressed: “If commercial enterprises determine that they have caused or resulted in the impact of advertising human rights, they should be remediated through appropriate processes or collaborative processes.”
“This report emphasizes due diligence responsibility for business work in the context of conflict to ensure that its activities do not lead to human rights violations,” Turk said in a statement.
The list was first produced by the UN Human Rights Office in 2020 amid demanding Israeli criticism. This is in response to a database of companies that require profits from illegally occupied Palestinian territory four years ago.
The United Nations Office for Rights was asked to list any of the 10 specific activities found to be participating in, including building, surveillance, demolishing and destroying agricultural land in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem.
It stressed that the listed companies in the database “is not, nor is it judicial or Quasi Jesus.”
“In the list released in 2023, a total of 68 new companies were added, and seven of them were removed because they no longer participated in any activities related to it,” the Office of Rights said. The Office of Rights said the list was not exhaustive, and he said it only had time to review 215 of the 596 companies that received submissions.
Posted at Dawn on September 27, 2025
