Netafaim

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Netafim is an Israeli manufacturer of irrigation technologies owned by the Orbia Group. The company produces drippers, dripperlines, sprinklers, and micro-emitters. It has several branches around the world and works in developing agriculture in West Bank settlements —lands seized from their Palestinian owners who were forcibly expelled from them. In 2025, a report was published by the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967. Under the title "From Economy of Occupation to Economy of Genocide," Netafim was mentioned in the following quote within the report: "While maintaining a global image of sustainability, Netafim technology has enabled intensive exploitation of water and land in the West Bank, further depleting Palestinian natural resources, while being refined in collaboration with Israeli military-tech firms. In the Jordan Valley, Netafim-aided irrigation systems have facilitated Israeli crop expansion, while Palestinian farmers – denied water and with 93 percent unirrigated land – are pushed out, unable to compete with Israeli production. Furthermore, such irrigation techniques threaten to exhaust the Jordan River and Dead Sea. Companies such as Tnuva and Netafim continue to manufacture food security for Israelis, while the food system to which they belong causes food insecurity – and even famine – for others. Netafim brands itself as a sustainable innovator, while perfecting age-old techniques of colonial exploitation."