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Allianz invests a total of €6.8 billion in firms involved in the occupation and Gaza war, including €53.6 million in Boeing and nearly €167 million in Caterpillar, with investments in arms almost doubling in 2024.

World’s largest wealth fund says it has excluded bulldozer maker and five Israeli banking groups on ethics grounds

Norway's Government Pension Fund Global, the world's largest sovereign wealth fund at $2 trillion, divested its holdings in Caterpillar citing the company's ties to Israeli military operations and associated human rights abuses.

The UN Special Rapporteur's report identifies PIMCO (an Allianz subsidiary) as a major institutional investor in Caterpillar, Lockheed Martin, Chevron, Elbit Systems, and other companies directly implicated in human rights violations in Gaza.

The Institute for Middle East Understanding called on the Senate to block the Trump administration's new $295M Caterpillar bulldozer sale to Israel after DSCA approval, following the reversal of the Biden-era freeze on similar shipments.

The planned weapons sales include 4,700 1,000-pound bombs, worth more than $700 million, as well as armored bulldozers built by Caterpillar, worth more than $300 million, the officials said.

Israel received a shipment of Caterpillar bulldozers that the Biden administration had previously frozen over concerns about their use in demolishing Palestinian homes. The shipment was later cleared after diplomatic negotiations.

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Israeli soldiers told +972 Magazine that Caterpillar D9 bulldozers were used to clear and bury Palestinian bodies to prevent images from reaching aid convoys.

Norway's largest private pension fund KLP sold its $69 million Caterpillar stake, citing risk that its equipment was being used to commit human rights abuses in Gaza and the West Bank.

UN experts explicitly named BAE Systems among arms manufacturers that should immediately end transfers to Israel, citing risk of complicity in international crimes including genocide.

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DAWN called on the UN to investigate Israeli use of Caterpillar D9 bulldozers for home demolitions in Gaza and the West Bank, following an incident in which IDF bulldozers crushed people sheltering outside Kamal Adwan Hospital during its capture.

According to WAFA, Israeli occupation forces, accompanied by a military D9 bulldozer, launched a large-scale attack in Jenin on Saturday night, deploying in various neighborhoods and positioning snipers on the rooftops of several homes and buildings.

Caterpillar D9 armoured bulldozers were deployed alongside IDF ground troops during the Gaza ground invasion, demolishing buildings, clearing roads and breaching tunnel infrastructure across Gaza.

Several multinational companies, including Israeli arms manufacturers, have been slammed for their complicity in Israel’s occupation and the mass demolition of Palestinian villages in Masafer Yatta…

The Palestinian non-governmental grassroots organization, Stop the Wall, today said Volvo Group, JCB Machinery, Caterpillar and Hyundai Heavy Industries are complicit in Israel’s ethnic cleansing practices of eight Palestinian villages in Masafer Yatta in the south of the occupied West Bank.

Israeli occupation forces used a Caterpillar excavator in the apparent extrajudicial execution of a Palestinian man, using the so-called pressure cooker procedure in which construction equipment is employed as a weapon, analysis by The Electronic Intifada shows.