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A man carries a child, who was killed in an Israeli strike, as he walks outside the Shifa Hospital, Gaza City, Monday, June 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)
A United Nations report has implicated companies such as Microsoft, Alphabet, parent company of Google, Amazon, Lockheed Martin, IBM, Palantir, Hyundai, Volvo and others in their involvement and profit from contracts with Israel, which has killed over 59,600 Palestinians in Gaza.
The report, which was compiled by UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese and presented at a news conference in Geneva on Friday, named Microsoft’s Azure platform and Alphabet in the development of Israel’s cloud and artificial intelligence infrastructure which is used to kill Palestinians.
“After October 2023, long-standing systems of control, exploitation and dispossession metamorphosed into economic, technological and political infrastructures mobilized to inflict mass violence and immense destruction. Entities that previously enabled and profited from Palestinian elimination and erasure within the economy of occupation, instead of disengaging are now involved in the economy of genocide.”
“Business and human rights obligations cannot be isolated from the Israeli illegal settler-colonial enterprise in the occupied Palestinian territory, which now functions as a genocidal machine, despite the International Court of Justice having ordered that it be fully and unconditionally dismantled.”
The report states:
“…As Israeli apartheid, military and population-control systems generate increasing volumes of data, its reliance on cloud storage and computing has grown. In 2021, Israel awarded Alphabet Inc. (Google) and Amazon.com, Inc. a $1.2 billion contract (Project Nimbus) – largely funded through Ministry of Defense expenditure – to provide core tech infrastructure.
“Microsoft, Alphabet and Amazon grant Israel virtually government-wide access to their cloud and artificial intelligence technologies, enhancing data processing, decision-making and surveillance and analysis capacities.
“In October 2023, when the Israeli internal military cloud overloaded, Microsoft, with its Azure platform, and the Project Nimbus consortium stepped in with critical cloud and artificial intelligence infrastructure.
“Their Israel-located servers ensure data sovereignty and a shield from accountability, under favourable contracts offering minimal restrictions or oversight.
“In July 2024, an Israeli colonel described cloud tech as a weapon in every sense of the word, citing these companies.
“…There are reasonable grounds to believe Palantir has provided automatic predictive policing technology, core defence infrastructure for rapid and scaled-up construction and deployment of military software, and its Artificial Intelligence Platform, which allows real-time battlefield data integration for automated decision-making.
“In January 2024, Palantir announced a new strategic partnership with Israel and held a board meeting in Tel Aviv “in solidarity”; in April 2025, Palantir’s Chief Executive Officer responded to accusations that Palantir had killed Palestinians in Gaza by saying, “mostly terrorists, that’s true”.
“Both incidents are indicative of executive-level knowledge and purpose vis-à-vis the unlawful use of force by Israel, and failure to prevent such acts or withdraw involvement.”
The report also commented on construction company Caterpillar Inc’s involvement in the destruction of Palestinian property and seizure of Palestinian land.
“For decades, Caterpillar Inc. has provided Israel with equipment used to demolish Palestinian homes and infrastructure, through both the United States Foreign Military Financing programme and an exclusive licensee requisitioned by Israeli law into the military.
“In partnership with companies such as Israel Aerospace Industries, Elbit Systems and Leonardo DRS, Inc.-owned RADA Electronic Industries, Israel has evolved Caterpillar’s D9 bulldozer into automated, remote-commanded core weaponry of the military, deployed in almost every military activity since 2000, clearing incursion lines, “neutralizing” the territory and killing Palestinians.”
The report pointed to automobile companies Hyundai and Volvo and their roles in Israel’s military activities in Palestine:
“Since at least 2007, Volvo machinery has been used to raze Palestinian areas, including in East Jerusalem136 and Masafer Yatta.
“For over a decade, HD Hyundai machinery has been used to demolish Palestinian homes and raze farmland, including olive groves.139 After October 2023, Israel increased the use of the equipment of those companies in the urban destruction of Gaza, including in flattening Rafah and Jabalia, after which the military obscured their logos.”
The report calls on UN member states to impose sanctions and a full arms embargo on Israel and to suspend all trade agreements.
The report also calls on countries to cease all business activities and terminate relationships directly linked with, contributing to and causing human rights violations and international crimes against the Palestinian people, and to pay reparations to the people of Palestine.
The Associated Press also reported on Thursday that the UN recorded 613 killings in Gaza near humanitarian convoys and at aid distribution points run by a US organization.