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MODENA: Marked confidential, letters went out to some of America’s most powerful companies in the spring of last year warning that they might soon be named in a United Nations report for contributing to gross violations of human rights by Israel in Gaza.

Written by Francesca Albanese, the UN special rapporteur for Pal­estine, the letters targeted more than a dozen major US firms, including Alphabet, Amazon, Caterpillar, Che­vron, Hewlett Packard, IBM, Lock­heed Martin, Microsoft and Palantir.