Norway wealth fund to probe companies over Gaza war

The world's largest sovereign wealth fund owns 1.5% of the world's listed shares across 8,800 companies

Svein Richard Brandtzaeg, chair of the council, said the war had prompted it to examine which firms were selling weapons to Israel that were being used in Gaza.

The ethics council of Norway's €1.47 trillion wealth fund says it is investigating whether companies in which it holds shares fall outside its permitted investment guidelines due to the war in Gaza.

The world's largest sovereign wealth fund, which owns 1.5% of the world's listed shares across 8,800 companies, operates under ethical rules set by parliament, and over the years has divested from nine companies, all Israeli, over activities in the occupied Palestinian territories.