JCB: Visual Evidence

JCB equipment has been used to demolish Palestinian family homes:

• in the Palestinian villages of Dkeika, Bir alEid, Lasefer and Umm Fagarah in the South Hebron Hills,
• in the East Jerusalem neighbourhoods of Silwan and al-Suwaneh
• in the Jordan Valley.
• The wheel loaders models used for these demolitions are 456e ZX and 3CX.

JCB equipment has been used to build the Separation Wall, declared illegal in 2004, and various checkpoints, which prevent free movement of Palestinians in their own land:

• near the Palestinian villages of Al-Walaja, Anata and Beit Jala
• at the Qalandiya and Ofer checkpoints.
• The models used for these tasks are JS330, JS200, 537 and 3CX.

JCB equipment has been used in the construction of illegal Israeli settlements on occupied Palestinian land:

• in the settlements of Alfei Menashe, Oranit, Ma’ale Adumim and Tzufin in the settlement neighbourhood of Har Homa in East Jerusalem;
• for the construction and expansion of the Kalia settlement’s beach in the occupied Dead Sea area;
• in the Barkan and Ariel West settlement industrial zones in the West Bank.

JCB equipment has been used in the construction of illegal infrastructure by Israel:

• in the construction of the A1 high-speed light railway between Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, which crosses the Green Line in two places,
• during the construction of the Jerusalem Light Rail station in the settlement neighbourhood of Pisgat Ze’ev.
• The models used for the construction of settlements are 3CX, 537 and JS 175W.

Source of information: Who Profits  https://whoprofits.org/company/jcb-j-c-bamford-excavators/