The UN human rights office on Wednesday released a list of 112 companies it said are complicit in violating Palestinian human rights by operating in Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank.

It is the first-ever international attempt to name and shame businesses connected to Israel's settlement industry.

The Human Rights Council first agreed to create the database in 2016, and began reviewing over 300 companies for business practices involving Israeli settlements which are considered illegal under international law.

The report could lead to a public shaming of the companies involved and buttress the efforts of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, a grassroots campaign that hopes to pressure Israel through action against companies.

The list is dominated by Israeli companies, including leading banks, construction companies, supermarkets and mobile phone operators.

There are, however, also several prominent international firms, including travel companies like Airbnb, Expedia, TripAdvisor, Booking.com and Opodo. Many offer vacation rentals in the settlements.



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Other names include consumer food maker General Mills, tech and communications giants Motorola Solutions and Altice Europe, and infrastructure companies like France's Egis and Alstom and British company JC Bamford Excavators.

Accommodation-sharing company Airbnb last year backtracked on plans to remove Jewish settler homes in the occupied West Bank from its rental listings, saying that it took the decision to end lawsuits brought against it by the hosts.

Below is the full list of companies active in Israeli settlements: