G4S Ends Israel Illegal Businisses

London, 7 Rabi’ul Awwal 1438/7 December 2016 (MINA) – The world’s largest security company, G4S, announced Tuesday evening that it is selling most of its Israeli business after an effective campaign against the company, waged by the Palestinian-led, global Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement.

“Our globally coordinated campaign has had a real impact,” said Rafeef Ziadah of the BDS movement in a statement issued following the news.

“We will continue campaigning until G4S ends all involvement in violations of Palestinian human rights,” Ziadah added, the Palestinian Information Center reported.

G4S, the world’s largest security firm, provides services at Israeli military checkpoints along Israel’s wall annexing Palestinian land in the occupied West Bank and inside settlements built in violation of the international law.

It also helps run prisons where Palestinians are tortured, abused and detained without charge.

The statement pointed out that the international Stop G4S Campaign has cost the company contracts worth millions of dollars in Europe, the Arab world, South Africa and elsewhere.

G4S’s list of lost clients includes private businesses, universities, trade unions, and UN bodies, the sources added.

In March, G4S announced its plans to “exit a number of businesses” including G4S Israel, US “youth justice services”, and UK “children’s services.”

G4S’s announcement comes after two French multinational companies, Veolia and Orange, pulled out of Israel since September 2015.

The Irish company CRH left Israel’s cement industry in January.(T/P008/R07)

Mi’raj Islamic News Agency (MINA)