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Hitachi is a publicly traded Japanese manufacturing corporation that operates in the fields of digital systems & services, green energy, mobility & railway systems, building systems, medical and industrial equipment, aerospace and defense equipment.

House Demolitions

Hitachi equipment has been used by Israeli authorities in the demolitions of Palestinian homes, residential and religious buildings and cemeteries in the occupied West Bank, occupied East Jerusalem and in the unrecognized villages in the Naqab region.

2024

On 30 July 2024, Hitachi bulldozer was used by Israeli authorities to demolish a residential structure in the village of Duma, southeast of Nablus in the occupied West Bank.

On 25 July 2024, Hitachi bulldozer was used by the Israeli authorities to demolish a residential structure in the Haska neighborhood north of the city of Hebron, in the occupied West Bank.

On 15 February 2024, Hitachi bulldozer was used by the Israeli security forces to demolish a residential structure in the Al Bustan area of the Silwan neighborhood, in the occupied East Jerusalem.

2023

On 22 May 2023, Hitachi bulldozer was used by the Civil Administration personnel, a military and Border Police escort, to demolish a tent used as a residence by a family of seven, including five minors, and a residential structure still under construction, owned by a different family, in an area south of Khirbet Ma’in in the South Hebron Hills, in the occupied West Bank.

On 1 March 2023, a Hitachi bulldozer was used by the Civil Administration personnel and a military escort, to demolish the home of 6 people, 4 of them minors in the village of Furush Beit Dajan in the central Jordan Valley, in the occupied West Bank. Part of the structure was donated to the family by a humanitarian aid organization.

2022

On 10 August 2022, a Hitachi bulldozer was used by Civil Administration personnel, military and Border Police escort to demolish a residential tent belonging to a family of eight, including three minors, along with a livestock enclosure, a livestock pen, a chicken coop and a kitchen in the town of al-’Auja in Jericho District, in the occupied West Bank.

On the same day, a Hitachi bulldozer was used by Civil Administration personnel, military and Border Police escort to demolish two seasonal residential shacks belonging to a family of seven, including five minors at the community of Wadi al-Ahmar in the northern Jordan Valley, in the occupied West Bank.

2014

On 12 June 2014, Israeli forces entered the cemetery of Al-Araqib Bedouin village, in the Naqab, demolishing its mosque and all the houses which local residents built after the first demolition in 2010 using Hitachi bulldozers.

Al-Araqib is one of the 35 “unrecognized” villages, where almost 300,000 Palestinian Bedouins live in the Naqab region. All unrecognized villages are slated for erasure and are systematically deprived of basic infrastructure and services to force residents to move to overcrowded and impoverished state-sanctioned Bedouin shanty towns and villages. For more about the dispossession of the Palestinian Bedouin in the Naqab, See Who Profits’ report Tools of Dispossession in the Naqab: Development and Military Projects.

On 27 January 2014, Hitachi bulldozer was used by the Israeli authorities to demolish residential structure in Beit Hanina neighborhood in occupied East Jerusalem.

2013

On 24 April 2013, Hitachi bulldozer was used by the Israeli authorities to demolish a family home housing 45 people in the At Tur neighborhood of East Jerusalem, along with an extension built for the children of the same family. Israeli forces also demolished two other houses in the Al Tur neighborhood on the same day.

Settlement Construction

Hitachi heavy machinery equipment has been used in the construction of one settlement, in the occupied West Bank.

In 2017, the company's engineering equipment was used for construction works in the Ariel settlement in the occupied West Bank.

Gaza

Gaza Barrier

In 2018, the company's equipment was documented used in the construction of the underground sea barrier at Zikim Beach surrounding the besieged Gaza. The length of the barrier is 200 meters, the width of its base is 50 meters, and it is topped by a fence 6 meters high.

Services to the Israel Police

The company provides computing storage system and maintenance to the Isreal Police.

In March 2023, the company’s fully owned Israeli subsidiary, Hitachi Vantara Israel (previously Hitachi Data Systems Israel), was contracted by the Israel Police, with an exemption from tender, to provide maintenance and expansion for Hitachi computing storage system for NIS 7.5 million for the period between 21 February 2023 and 31 December 2025.

On 23 October 2022, the Israel Police published an exemption from a tender, contracting Hitachi Vantara Israel for maintenance and expansion in the Hitachi storage system for 14 million NIS for the period between 01 January 2023 and 31 of December 2025.

On 11 May 2020, the Israel Police published an exemption from a tender for upgrading the Hitachi storage system, contracting Hitachi storage systems Israel (later Hitachi Vantara Israel) for contract period between 24 May 2020 and 01 January 2023.

On 30 May 2019, the Israel Police published an exemption from a tender for maintenance of the Hitachi SAP HANA storage system, contracting Hitachi storage systems Israel Ltd (later Hitachi Vantara Israel) for a period between 20 June 2019 and 31 July 2023.