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Search Results for: surveillance
“Are you Palestinian? Are you a little bit Palestinian? They yelled at me”: Experiencing detention in Israel
…: An Israeli company which develops ‘electronic equipment for challenging security situations’. Its metal detectors were seen being used in the Givon detention centre in Ramle. According to the company web-site, it also makes surveillance, alarm and control systems. G4S: The presence of G4S equipment in the Ben Gurion deportation lounge only adds to the company’s already substantial involvement with Israeli apartheid. For a full analysis of G4S’… Continue reading
Co-Operative Asset Management confirms it has dropped G4S
The Co-operative Asset Management, owned by the Co-Ooperative Group, has confirmed that it has ditched its investment in G4S. The Co-Op owned shares in the British-Danish company through the NCH Pumpkin Fund. Andy Hammerton, Public Relations Manager at the Co-Op told Corporate Watch that these had been divested in Summer 2012. G4S has been targeted by a broad range of campaigners because of the company’s complicity in the occupation of Pal… Continue reading
Schedule 7 of the Terrorism Act 2000: A police snooping tool to protect private profit
Corporate Watch researchers Tom Anderson and Therezia Cooper* have been stopped and questioned under Schedule 7 of the Terrorism Act 2000 a total of five times between them at UK airports while travelling to Egypt and returning from research trips in Palestine. In February 2013, Tom and Therezia returned from a research trip in Palestine separately, with a 10-day gap separating their arrival back in the UK. They were both stopped at Luton airpor… Continue reading
Posted in 'Security' and Surveillance
G4S providing security services in Gilo settlement
The multinational company G4S is providing security services in the settlement of Gilo. On the 4th February 2013 Corporate Watch researchers photographed a G4S sign on a building on the road leading to the Gilo military checkpoint. Gilo is an illegal Israeli settlement in the Bethlehem area with over 40,000 inhabitants. A G4S sign on a road leading to the Gilo military checkpoint, photo taken by Corporate Watch researchers 04/02/2013 A building… Continue reading
G4S providing services to settlements in East Jerusalem
On 26th January 2013 Corporate Watch took photos of G4S signs in the East Jerusalem settlement of Ramat Eshkol and Ramot Allon. On 31st January Corporate Watch observed Rapiscan machines at both entrances to the Western Wall compound in East Jerusalem (Rapiscan’s Israeli representative is Hashmira, which is owned by G4S – for more info see here). On 23rd January 2013 researchers photographed a G4S sign on equipment in use at at the O… Continue reading
G4S expands business in Israel: Prisons, high street stores and migrant detention
The logo and uniform of British/Danish company G4s is becoming ubiquitous on the Israeli high street. G4S is the largest security company in the world and the largest employer on the London Stock Exchange, operating in 125 countries worldwide.[1] It provides a variety of services in 1948 Israel and the Occupied Territories including providing security for businesses in illegal Israeli settlements, providing equipment and maintenance services to… Continue reading
G4S and the E1 Settlement Expansion
…the Oslo accords cemented the existence of two distinct legal systems in the West Bank, Israeli civilian Law for the settler population and military law for the Palestinian population (see Who Profits, The Case of G4s, pp22). Surveillance equipment at police station in the E1 area close to Ma’ale Adumim. More surveillance equipment at the E1 police station By providing services to this police station, situated on occupied territory, G4S, th… Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Watch Research Blogs
Tagged E1, G4S, International Companies in Palestine, Jahalin
G4S Company Profile
Read Corporate Watch’s company profile of G4S here… Continue reading
G4S delivers services to Israeli prisons and illegal settlements
by Adri Nieuwhof and Basma Salem On 11 March 2011, the Danish-British security firm G4S announced its exit from some contracts in the West Bank. The company will continue to deliver security services to illegal settlements in the West Bank and to prisons in Israel. G4S came under scrutiny after Who Profits, part of the Israeli Coalition of Women for Peace, and Danish financial watchdog DanWatch, revealed in November last year that the company su… Continue reading
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