The online database, "Who Profits from the occupation," sums up Bezeq’s military links saying it provides "telecommunication services to all the Israeli settlements, army bases and checkpoints in the West Bank and to Israeli settlements in the Golan Heights."

The "Who Profits" database also reveals that Bezeq’s wholly-owned subsidiary, Pelephone Communications, built almost 200 antennas and telecommunication facilities on occupied land in the West Bank and the Golan Heights. Pelephone provides cell services to Israeli soldiers and settlers in the occupied territories, including such illegal "outposts" as Havat Gilad near Nablus in the West Bank.

Bezeq also owns YES, an Israeli company that provides satellite broadcasting services to some Israeli checkpoints and to all Israeli settlements.

A high-profile Israeli who was on Bezeq’s board between 2005 and 2007, is retired Brigadier General Pinchas Buchris. Upon leaving Bezeq’s board in 2007, Buchris became the general manager of Israel’s Ministry of Defense, where he remained until 2010. (Buchris was also a director of Gilat Satellite Networks, which provides its services to Israeli military and intelligence agencies.)

Until 2008, Bezeq was the Israeli military’s sole provider of communications services. Israel’s Globes business paper said Bezeq was "considered the [Israel Defense Forces’] IDF’s in-house telecommunications services provider for many years" because there was "no alternative network large enough to provide service to the IDF bases and sites where the army needs telephony services."

A Bezeq subsidiary, Bezeq International, is the Israeli military’s exclusive provider of internet access and secure telecommunications infrastructure. It also supplies landline and cellular modems for thousands of military subscribers. Bezeq International has laid at least 2,700 km of fibre-optic cable for Israel’s military.

In 2009, when Bezeq won the five-year contract to become the Israeli military’s exclusive internet services provider, Globes reported that the company would provide "[i]nternet access and secure telecommunications infrastructure based on both landline and cellular modems for thousands of IDF subscribers."

That same year, Bezeq reported that to conduct its "communications operations" it "holds 60 properties in Israeli settlements in Judea and Samaria, in a total area of approximately 9,300 sq[uare] m[iles] of land." This is the area known outside Israel as the occupied West Bank. Bezeq’s report went on to unashamedly state that "No written arrangement of the contractual rights in these properties exists, but in the Company’s opinion this does not constitute a significant problem."

In 2010, Bezeq won a three-year contract from the Israeli military’s "Home Front Command." In reporting on this, Israel’s Haaretz newspaper explained that the tender was "for the rapid deployment during emergencies of an advanced communications network at distribution centers."

Bezeq - The Israeli Telecommunication Corp.
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Pinchus Buchris
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