This week, Victory Grocery store Chain (TASE: VCTR) printed a small a part of the income made via Israeli firms from the products that input the Gaza Strip day by day. This can be a business that most commonly takes position in secret, each to be able to reap the income, but in addition to steer clear of hurt to the general public symbol of the corporations involved from the arguable follow.
The listing of businesses that promote items to the Gaza Strip isn’t publicly to be had. The Customs Directorate within the Israel Tax Authority does now not file the names at the listing, pronouncing that it has a “duty of confidentiality”. Predictably, the corporations themselves don’t volunteer the ideas. An exception is produce grower and exporter Mehadrin (TASE: MEDN), managed via Yitzhak Tshuva’s Delek Staff (TASE: DLEKG), which reported NIS 60 million earnings from gross sales to the Gaza Strip in its ultimate quarterly monetary statements.
Different names reportedly at the Customs Directorate listing are Rami Levi (TASE: RMLI) and the King Retailer chain. Each firms vehemently deny promoting items to the Gaza Strip, regardless of assembly the factors for doing so.
“We’re a retail chain, and if we have the possibility of obtaining a certain sales license, we do so. At worst, we won’t use it,” Rami Levi CEO Yafit Atias-Levy explains. “I don’t know what the world will be like tomorrow. Suddenly there’ll be world peace and it will be peace and love all around. So why shouldn’t I have a license? I take one out against any scenario that might arise. That’s my obligation. But my moral stance is not to sell to Gaza in wartime.”
Palestinians check out the wear and tear to their properties following an Israeli airstrike on Al-Maghazi Refugee Camp within the central Gaza Strip, on June 12, 2026. (credit score: Ali Hassan/ Flash90)
In line with the Coordinator of Executive Actions within the Territories (COGAT) within the Ministry of Protection, at first of 2026 between 600 and 800 vehicles had been getting into the Gaza Strip day by day. 70% of them carried meals provides. A file of the United International locations International Meals Program speaks of procurement of 2 million metric lots of meals value $1.5 billion in 2024. From this it may be deduced that one metric ton (1,000 kilograms) of humanitarian assist is value $700. In line with marketplace estimates, the present price of meals vehicles getting into the Gaza Strip represents annual earnings of NIS 5 billion.
In September 2025, the Customs Directorate printed a unique association for together with the “Israeli sector” within the switch of humanitarian assist to the Gaza Strip, with the purpose of “reinforcing supervision” at the items getting into the strip. The purpose of the association used to be to stop “diversion of goods to terrorist elements” via settling on providers that meet the edge outlined within the Promotion of Festival within the Meals and Pharmacy Sectors Legislation. This implies huge providers with annual gross sales turnover exceeding NIS 344 million and big outlets with annual gross sales turnover exceeding NIS 286 million.
Those firms promote meals and cosmetics without delay to approved Gazan investors. Eighteen investors authorized via the Israel Safety Company (Shin Wager) and the Customs Directorate lately function within the Gaza Strip, in step with a supply accustomed to the main points. Lots of the cash with which the Gazan investors purchase the lots on vehicles from Israel it appears comes from donations to humanitarian reasons. Each and every load can price as much as NIS 1 million.
In line with Customs Directorate directions, any authorized industry within the Gaza Strip that meets the factors of COGAT is authorized to shop for from Israeli providers that meet the prerequisites of the association. After the acquisition is made, the products arrive at an agreed web page (some of the crossings into the Gaza Strip that permit the passage of products), go through inspection via customs brokers, and from there are disbursed to the Palestinian inhabitants.
Golden Aisco Distribution, a distributor of meals and cleansing merchandise, appealed to the Prime Court docket of Justice towards the requirement to fulfill the factors of a giant provider or store, claiming unfair discrimination, because it argued that this criterion had no connection to the aim of keeping up safety, however the enchantment used to be withdrawn and the situation have now not modified.
There are Israeli firms that experience determined to not observe to be integrated at the Customs Directorate listing for ideological causes. “Globes” has realized that retail chain Yochananof (TASE: YHNF), as an example, has now not carried out, regardless of assembly the factors. “We are an Israeli chain that serves the Israeli public and that does not wish to supply to Gaza in the light of the war and the events of October 7,” the corporate defined.
