Elbit Systems are Israel’s largest weapons company, producing 85% of the IOF’s killer drones and land-based military apparatus. They also produce munitions and components for all Israeli attack aircrafts.
The company functions as an arm of the IOF. Elbit’s CEO Bezhalel Machlis boasted that the company is crucial to the ongoing genocide. The company has been thanked by Israeli military officials for being “the main operating system” to the IOF.
They market their products as “battle-tested” on Palestinians. What this means is that when you hear reports from doctors in Gaza sharing “we’ve never seen burns like this before”, this is because Elbit experiments with new military technologies by testing them on captive Palestinian civilians.
“We feel that we are civil soldiers”
Often, Elbit workers go out into the field with the IOF to observe their products in use and then refine the technology according to the success of the operation. Workers of the company have said in interviews that they consider themselves to be civil soldiers.
Elbit’s global operations
After testing their products on Palestinians, Elbit then sell their products on to other authoritarian regimes to be used. To note, Elbit’s military equipment was used during the invasion of Iraq, against the Kashmiri people and for the Mexico-US border wall.
Elbit conducted the first AI war which infamously led to the killing of the Bakr boys who were playing football on a beach in Gaza in 2014. The company also supplies the UK authorities with drones to patrol the English Channel, targeting migrants seeking refuge in Britain.