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Korean HD Hyundai[132] and its partially-owned subsidiary, Doosan,[133] alongside Swedish Volvo Group[134] and other major heavy machinery manufacturers, have long been linked to destruction of Palestinian property, each supplying equipment through exclusively licensed Israeli dealers.[135] Volvo’s licensee is a United Nations Database-listed company and its business partner in Merkavim Transport Pty Ltd, which produces armoured buses servicing colonies.[136] Since 2000, Volvo machinery has been used to raze Palestinian areas, including in east Jerusalem[137] and Masafer Yatta.[138] For over a decade, HD Hyundai machinery has been used to demolish Palestinian homes[139] and raze farmland, including olive groves.[140] After October 2023, Israel increased use of their equipment in the urban destruction of Gaza,[141] including flattening Rafah[142] and Jabalia,[143] after which the military obscured their logos.[A/HRC/59/23: From economy of occupation to economy of genocide – Report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967 (Advance unedited version)]