"Between January 1 and November 22, 2025, lading bills show that MSC facilitated at least 957 shipments of goods from Israeli outposts to the US. Of these shipments, 529 transited through European ports, including 390 in Spain, 115 in Portugal, 22 in the Netherlands, and two in Belgium. MSC is privately owned by Italian billionaire Gianluigi Aponte and his wife, Rafaela Aponte-Diamant, who was born in the Israeli city of Haifa in 1945, then under British rule as Mandatory Palestine."
"Israeli settlements are widely considered illegal under international law, because they are built on occupied territory, in violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention, Nicola Perugini, senior lecturer in international relations at the University of Edinburgh, told Al Jazeera. Commercialising products from these settlements effectively supports the illegal settlements. The findings capture a limited portion of the settlement trade, since import and export data from Israel and most European countries is not publicly available."
Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) regularly transported cargo from companies based in Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank to the United States. Commercial lading bills from January 1 to November 22, 2025 document at least 957 shipments, with 529 transiting European ports including Spain, Portugal, the Netherlands and Belgium. Shipments encompassed food, textiles, skin care and natural stones. Israeli settlements are widely considered illegal under international law because they are built on occupied territory in violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention. Commercialisation of settlement products effectively supports those settlements and relies on global shipping networks and ports.
Read at www.aljazeera.com
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