The world’s largest security company G4S announced today that it is selling most of its Israeli business following an effective campaign against the company waged by the Palestinian-led global Boycott Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement for Palestinian rights.
BDS movement described in a statement on Monday the move as the first victory supporting human rights in Palestine and called it the second G4S defeat in a year in Latin America after BDS managed to convince early 2016 a series of big restaurants in Colombia to end its contract with G4S company.
G4S is a British security company that helps Israel run prisons where Palestinian political prisoners are held without trial and subjected to torture and ill-treatment. It is also involved in providing equipment and services to Israeli military checkpoints illegal settlements and to military and police facilities.
The international Stop G4S Campaign has cost the company contracts worth millions of dollars in Europe the Arab world South Africa and elsewhere the statement pointed out.
Despite the sale of its subsidiary G4S will remain directly complicit in Israel’s violations of Palestinian rights through training Israeli police and offering security services to Israeli settlements established over Palestinians’ lands in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
