A private US manufacturer—owned by Israeli company Shladot—of David Urban Light Armored Vehicles. These vehicles are used by the Israeli military and are routinely used in human rights violations in the occupied West Bank.
MDT Armor, owned by Israeli company Shladot, is an Alabama-based manufacturer of the David Urban Light Armored Vehicle, the standard patrol and reconnaissance vehicle used by the Israeli military and routinely used in human rights violations in the occupied West Bank.
On November 14, 2023, the Palestine Red Crescent Society posted evidence of the Israeli military using two David armored vehicles to block an ambulance carrying a wounded Palestinian in the Tulkarm Refugee Camp. The same day, the Israeli military used a David vehicle to attack Palestinian youth at the Zaatara military checkpoint near the occupied West Bank city of Nablus.
A shipment of David vehicles was rushed to Israel in October 2023. The David is built on the basis of Toyota's Hilux and Land Cruiser pickup trucks and is retrofitted for the needs of the Israeli military at MDT's Factory in Auburn, Ala.