Microsoft removed protesters who stormed office Israel military work

Microsoft Police asked for the Israeli army to remove people entering a building at the headquarters to protest the claim that the company used the company’s software as part of Gaza’s occupation.

On Tuesday, the current and former Microsoft employees began protesting in a building on the Microsoft campus in Washington, Redmond, depending on the Azure group for Apartheid, and entered the Brad Smith office of the company. According to a statement from the group, the protesters reported a court call at the office.

“Obviously, when seven people do it today – a building storm occupies an office, blocks other people from the office, even in raw form, in the form of phones, mobile phones hidden behind the couches and behind the books – Smith said during a briefing.

“When they were asked to leave and refused, it’s okay. So for these seven people, the Redmond police literally had to get them out of the building.”

Smith said two out of seven people entering their office.

Although the company does not retaliate against employees who expressed their views, Smith said that it was different to make a threat. Smith said Microsoft will see if he would discipline employees participating in the protest.

After entering the building of Microsoft’s building 34, Azure for Apartheid protesters asked the company to cut its ties with Israel and put an end to the country’s alleged genocide.

Megacap companies of Tech do more business with defense agencies, especially due to demand increases for advanced artificial intelligence technologies. Many of these activities are already controversial, but Israel has increased the military attack in Gaza, the problem has focused more.

Last year Google After entering the company’s facilities without permission, he fired 28 employees. Some employees have reached the office of Thomas Kurian, CEO of Google’s cloud unit, which is a contract with the Israeli government.

No Azure for Apartheid, this year, Microsoft’s building developer conference and the company’s 50th anniversary of the company did a series of actions. While the protests continued, a Microsoft director reached the Federal Investigation Bureau. Bloomberg It has been reported earlier on Tuesday.

Last week, there was no deep blue to protests of apartheid around the company campus and led to 20 arrests in one day. Smith said 16 out of 20 out of 20 of them have never worked in Microsoft.

Guardian At the beginning of this month, Israel’s army used Microsoft’s Azure Cloud infrastructure to store the Palestinians to store phone calls, and the company has led to a third -party investigation authority to see if Israel has benefited from surveillance technology.

“I think the name of my name is open in such a situation: to investigate and to reach the fact that our services are used.” He said.

Microsoft said that most of his work with Israeli defense force contains cyber security for Israel. He added that the company, in Israel on October 7, 2023, died of Hamas’s terrorist attack and hostages, as well as tens of thousands of civilians in Gaza, who died since the war, are “deep”.

Smith said Microsoft plans to ethically maintain technology.

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