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Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) is a US-based information technology company and one of the legal successors to the original Hewlett-Packard Company. It was established in 2015 following the corporate split of the parent organization. The company has faced scrutiny and been cited in reports regarding human rights violations connected to the Israeli occupation of Palestine. HP Inc., the other entity formed during the 2015 split, is one of the world’s largest manufacturers and retailers of personal computers, laptops, printers, scanners, and peripheral devices. Following the restructuring, the original Hewlett-Packard Company ceased to exist in its previous form. The Hewlett-Packard Company initially entered the Israeli market in the 1990s, collaborating with the Israeli military and various government branches on infrastructure projects. Following the 2015 split, HPE assumed the enterprise technology and server operations contracted by the original parent company. While HP Inc. has no recorded role in providing these specific server technologies, HP Inc. was the exclusive provider of personal computers (PCs) to the Israeli military and other security forces, at least until 2017 and potentially until 2019. In 2009, the Israeli Ministry of Defense awarded this contract to the Hewlett-Packard Company, HP Inc.’s legal predecessor. Most purchases under this contract were financed through the U.S. Foreign Military Sales program. This contract was renewed in 2014 for three years with an option to be extended until 2019. In 2015, HP Inc. assumed responsibility for this contract; however, there is no indication that it was renewed past 2017. It remains unclear what company, if any, is the current exclusive supplier of computers to the Israeli military. HPE is the sole supplier of Itanium servers for the Israeli Population and Immigration Authority for the operation of the Israeli Population Registry, which contains information on Palestinians in the occupied Palestinian territory. Here is the corrected and refined version of your text for better flow, clarity, and precision: The Population and Immigration Authority's (PIBA) core infrastructure is the "Aviv" system, a central computing system that manages Israel's Population Registry. The system's operating infrastructure was developed by HPE and runs on HPE Itanium servers. Since 2017, HPE has served as the sole supplier for these servers and their ongoing maintenance. Additionally, HPE provides the hardware equipment and maintenance services for both the Israel Prison Service's central server farm and its primary backup center. In 2025, Hewlett Packard Enterprise was included in a report by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) listing companies associated with activities in the occupied territories. The report noted: "Since 2019, IBM Israel has operated and upgraded the central database of the Population and Immigration Authority, enabling collection, storage and governmental use of biometric data on Palestinians, and supporting the discriminatory permit regime of Israel. Before IBM, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) maintained the database and its Israeli subsidiary is still providing servers. Hewlett Packard (HP) has long enabled the apartheid systems of Israel, supplying technology to the Coordination of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT), the prison service and police. Since the 2015 split of the company into Hewlett Packard Enterprise and HP Inc., opaque business structures have obscured the roles of their seven remaining Israeli subsidiaries." -- Listed on NYSE (HPE), Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) is backed by leading sovereign wealth funds, most notably NBIM. Listed on NYSE (HPQ), HP Inc is backed by leading sovereign wealth funds, most notably NBIM.