As Gaza bleeds, international corporations cash in. What Palestinians see as a war of extermination has become a multi-billion-dollar enterprise for over 60 global companies directly supporting Israel’s aggression. From tech giants to arms manufacturers, the machinery of war is powered not only by bombs, but by contracts, lobbying, and cold financial interests.

The United Nations Special Rapporteur on Palestine, Francesca Albanese, has dubbed it the “Genocide Economy”, an entangled web of profiteering and complicity. American companies like Google and Microsoft provide surveillance tools that aid occupation forces. Caterpillar and Hyundai bulldozers level Palestinian homes. Lockheed and other arms giants sell the weapons that rain down on civilian areas. Every destroyed building, every displaced family, feeds a profit margin.

Experts warn that this war is not simply tolerated, it is engineered to continue. These corporations, backed by governments in Washington, London, Berlin, and Paris, have a vested interest in the war’s duration. According to researchers, many corporate executives maintain covert ties with Israeli leadership. What’s unfolding in Gaza is not only a humanitarian catastrophe, but a lucrative business model.

This war, Palestinians argue, has two fronts: economic and ideological. On one hand, it enriches weapons and tech conglomerates; on the other, it serves a Zionist settler-colonial project aimed at eliminating Palestinian presence altogether. Israeli officials no longer hide their intentions: to erase Gaza, to displace its people, and to reshape the land for future investment, perhaps even the so-called “Riviera” envisioned by Trump.

Over 1,000 companies, as documented by the UN, are involved to some degree in sustaining the Israeli occupation. Behind every bomb dropped, there’s a supply chain; behind every ruined home, a shareholder’s dividend. This is not collateral damage. This is business. And for Palestinians, it is a brutal reminder that their dispossession is not just politically sanctioned, it is profit-driven.