Investigation reveals Maersk Shipping s role in genocide in Gaza

In late October, yet another video from Gaza showed dozens of Palestinian men rounded up, blindfolded, and hauled away by Israeli occupation soldiers. In the footage, broadcast by an Israeli news channel, the Palestinian hostages, reportedly from the besieged city of Jabalia in northern Gaza, were crammed inside the cargo bed of an Israeli military truck.
Intercept – Al-Khabar Al-Yemeni translation:
The vehicle appears to be an Oshkosh M1085 5-Ton Long Cargo medium tactical vehicle.
Over the last year, the Israeli military has received at least 100 Oshkosh armored vehicles like the one in the video. These vehicles arrived on vessels operated by the commercial shipping and logistics giant A.P. Moller Maersk.
Israel has long used armored vehicles as killing machines throughout the occupied Palestinian territories. Images of Palestinians crushed by Israeli tanks and trucks are now familiar to anyone paying attention to the ongoing Israeli onslaught in Gaza.
Maersk’s role in shipping the Oshkosh armored vehicles came to light as part of a new investigation from researchers with the Palestinian Youth Movement and the International Progressive Organization. The investigation details how Maersk has shipped millions of pounds of military goods, including hundreds of armored and tactical vehicles and their components, to the Israeli Ministry of Defense since Israel’s genocidal war began last year.
The findings, shared in advance with The Intercept, reveal the significant role that Maersk—a publicly traded, family-controlled company—has played in delivering military goods to the Israeli entity, including tanks and other armored vehicles or their parts, aircraft components, armored plates, parts for artillery systems, and many hundreds of shipments that are unidentified or unspecified “military equipment.”
After analyzing shipment export data from over 2,000 shipments over the last year, the researchers report that they were able to reveal a commercial supply chain rife with material bound