Jordanian activists have welcomed a decision by seven countries in the kingdom, to drop contracts with controversial security company, Group4Security (G4S).

The multinational security and incarceration firm has been the center of an international campaign over its involvement in Israel’s military occupation and other violations of Palestinian rights.

The firm is known to provide security services and equipment to the Israeli police forces and prison services, as well as t0 military checkpoints and settlements in the West Bank.

The companies who have boycott the security company include well-known local and regional names, such as Jordan Hospital and Medical Center, the local affiliates of Orange and IKEA and “a leading bank,” according to Jordan BDS, a group that supports the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement for Palestinian rights.

“We also salute all those companies and banking institutions in Jordan that have in the past ended their contracts or refrained from dealing with this security company,” Jordan BDS said in a statement.

Four UN agencies and firms, including Aramex, Landmark Hotel and several major malls, have previously shunned business with G4S.

Following years of boycott pressure, G4S announced last December that it was selling off nearly all its businesses in Israel.

However, the Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC) urged a renewed boycott of G4S last month, after it emerged that the company was complicit in Israel’s plan to implement tighter security restrictions over the al-Aqsa mosque compound in occupied East Jerusalem.

“G4S was spotted several weeks ago in Jerusalem transporting metal detectors and electronic gates to the al-Aqsa mosque. G4S is actively training the Israeli police forces to attack Palestinians in Jerusalem. G4S holds 50% of Policy Ltd., a company contracted by the Israeli police to build and operate Israel’s National Police Academy, inaugurated in January 2015,” Jordan’s BDS noted in their statement.

According to Jordan BDS, the group is still pressing other UN agencies to cut ties with G4S,calling on “all companies, embassies, hotels and commercial centers across Jordan” that have not yet done so.