"'Israel's campaign of arrest, whether it be in times of crisis or times of relative peace, is always a political tool and a form of collective punishment. It represents a premeditated policy of discouraging Palestinian political involvement, and an attempt to stop a people who are pursuant of their legitimate right to both self-determination and basic dignity,' said Abu Zeyad."

And in occupied Palestine as elsewhere, incarceration is a profitable business. Last year alone, G...4S Israel had contracts with the Israeli Prison Services (IPS) totaling over 17 million NIS. Only this month, Who Profits received oral confirmation that G4S Israel-installed Rapiscan electromagnetic detectors are still installed in Ofer Prison, where Palestinian political prisoners are held.

"The Israeli Civil Administration in the West Bank seized solar panels that powered a Bedouin school and a preschool outside Jerusalem on Wednesday, even though it knew a petition against the seizure was being filed to the High Court of Justice.

The administration stressed that "the fact that a lawyer petitions the Justice Ministry does not override authorities' responsibility to enforce the law of the land.""

For Israeli authorities, the "law of the land" is code for an all...-out war on Palestinian sovereignty. And at the same time that Palestinian solar energy is forcibly de-developed, the Israeli solar industry in the settlements is booming, amassing huge profits to settlers, private corporations and the Israel Electric Company.

"The Central Reserve Police Force then decided to give the Israeli "stink bomb" a try, a non-lethal but notoriously foul, sewage-smelling liquid nicknamed "Skunk" that can be mixed with water and sprayed on protesters.

In a test run, the bomb liquid was sprayed on a "captive crowd" in India but to no avail. What the CPRF discovered, as reported by the Hindustan Times, is that the foul-smelling weapons employed by Israeli security forces on Palestinian protestors are wholly i...neffective on their Indian counterparts."

There is a tendency to regard urban planning as a neutral and expertise-driven field of knowledge. But in reality, infrastructure is always political, and doubly so in the context of prolonged occupation.

So what does a civilian light rail train mean in a reality of ongoing ethnic cleansing and systemic de-development for East Jerusalem's occupied Palestinian population? Who is it really aimed to benefit? And what companies are profiting from it?

Read Who Profits' latest flas...h-report on the Jerusalem light rail and find out!

Water is life, and under occupation, its denial becomes an assault on the very conditions of life.

The latest water-sharing agreement between Israel and the Palestinian authority only serves to highlight the vastly unequal relationship between occupier and occupied.

In 2013, Who Profits published a flash report on Mekorot, the Israeli state-owned national water company, and its involvement in the Israeli occupation. Here are 9 ways Mekorot profits from and facilitates the occ...upation:

Company of the Day: Moscow Metrostroy

In July 2010, the Russian construction company won a contract with Minrav Engineering for the construction of section B of the A1 fast train line from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.

Section B consists largely of occupied Palestinian land in the West Bank which was ethnically cleansed of its Palestinian residents after the 1967 war.

Company of the Day: Semi

The company won a tender of NIS 2 billion to execute the electrification of Israel’s railway network, including the A1 Tel Aviv Jerusalem fast train.

The Tel Aviv Jerusalem fast train is one of the largest infrastructure project built in Israel, and the train's route crosses the green line in two areas into occupied Palestinian territory.

Company of the Day: Bombardier

Bombardier, a Canadian multinational featured in Who Profits' new flash report on the A1 Tel Aviv-Jerusalem Fast Train, will provide all of the engines for the A1 train, which passes through occupied Palestinian land.

Meanwhile, its management thinks its "not in [the company's] DNA to deal with political issues."

Company of the Day: Minrav Group

Minrav is one of the companies involved in the construction of the new A1 Tel Aviv Jerusalem fast train, constructed in part on occupied Palestinian land.

Minrav also builds housing projects in settlements, operates a sewage treatment plant in occupied East Jerusalem, serving mainly settlement neighborhoods and built the Be’er Sheva prison, in which Palestinian political prisoners are held.

Check out Who Profit's latest flash-report on the A1 Tel Aviv Jerusalem Fast Train!

The new train route, known as the A1, is one of the biggest infrastructure projects undertaken by the Israeli government in recent decades, and it is being built on occupied land in gross violation of international law.

The A1 train route crosses the Green Line into the occupied West Bank in two areas, using occupied Palestinian land, some of it privately owned, for an Israeli transportation p...roject aimed exclusively for Israelis.