CAF must abandon its Jerusalem project

ELA has already denounced the fact that the light rail from Jerusalem did not comply with international law. The attitude of the Israeli Government shows that the project consolidates apartheid on the Palestinian population.

Since 2018, the Works Council has been denouncing this project, which directly reinforces the Israeli colonization strategy and violates the most basic rights of the Palestinian people.

Later it was the report of the UN rapporteur for the occupied Palestinian territories, Francesca Albanese, who mentioned several companies that were profiting at the expense of Israel's colonial occupation of Palestine, and among the companies mentioned was CAF for its participation in the Green Line project in Jerusalem. The report specifically indicated that this type of infrastructure aims to “establish and expand the colonies and connect them with Israel”; in September 2025, the company was included in the UN database of companies linked to activities in illegal Israeli colonies.

There have been countless actions carried out by CAF workers to demand that the company's management first not participate in the bidding process, and then terminate the Jerusalem contract. The management has ignored the repeated requests, and this week the complaint filed last February by different civil society organizations with the prosecutor’s office to investigate the criminal responsibility of the Board of Directors of CAF and six subsidiaries “for the involvement of the company in the construction, operation and maintenance” of the aforementioned tram has been made public.

ELA considers it regrettable that a company in Euskal Herria, a people that demonstrates every day an immense solidarity with the Palestinian people, is linked to the Zionist state. The complaint submitted brings to the table issues of immense seriousness which will have to be investigated in depth.

ELA reiterates its rejection of the tram project and demands its abandonment. Neither those who work in CAF, nor in general those who are committed to an industrial project respectful of human rights, deserve CAF to be associated with a state that practices genocide. The management must accept the very serious mistake that was made in betting on working for the state of Israel and the consequences of this decision.