Un Ponte Per joins the petition launched by ReCommon to demand that Eni immediately stop its agreement with Delek Group, one of Israel's largest energy companies, which is on the UN blacklist of companies operating in the illegally occupied Palestinian territories.
The petition has already been signed by the following Italian civil society organisations: Greenpeace Italia, Friday for Future Italia, FOCSIV, A Sud, Scomodo, Rinascimento Green, Coordinamento nazionale No Triv, BDS Italia, Presidio Libera Potenza 'Elisa Claps e Francesco Tammone', Cova Contro, Teachers for Future Italia, L.E.A Berta Cáceres, WWF Potenza and internal areas, Paesaggi Meridiani, Comitato per la Pace Potenza and Un Ponte Per.
Last April, the six-legged dog signed a merger agreement between its UK subsidiary and the British Ithaca Energy, 89% owned by Delek Group. The synergy with Ithaca Energy aims to produce over 100,000 barrels of oil per day in the North Sea in the short term and over 150,000 by 2030. Yet another confirmation of the company's desire to continue with its fossil 'business as usual' to the detriment of the climate and the environment, in this case aggravated by its relationship with a company, Ithaca Energy, whose 2023 proceeds, over 350 million dollars, have been transferred almost entirely to Delek Group, complicit in the violation of the rights of the Palestinian people.
Delek Group provides services to support the maintenance of the Israeli settlements and, also in the settlements, uses natural resources, particularly water and land, for commercial purposes. Recently, evidence has emerged showing that the Delek Group has links to the Israeli army. Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) vehicles have been able to refuel at hundreds of petrol stations owned by Delek Israel, another of Delek Group's subsidiaries.
"Eni has a strong business relationship with a company that is in fact helping to finance the war in the Middle East," said ReCommon's Eva Pastorelli. "This is why we feel it is right for Italian civil society to make its voice heard and ask our country's main multinational to break this controversial link. No economic interest can justify perpetuating a conflict that has already claimed tens of thousands of victims and whose end is currently not in sight,' Pastorelli concluded.
