gaza conflict

The International Federation of Journalists’ weekly roundup for 29 November–5 December 2025 spotlights a sharp escalation in two interlinked trends: formal legal challenges by journalists’ unions over restricted access to Gaza and the occupied West Bank, and a fresh wave of frontline casualties...

Microsoft’s cloud and AI stack has been implicated in a string of investigations alleging that Israeli military intelligence relied on commercial cloud services and AI tools to run mass surveillance and automated targeting systems in Gaza — including a disputed system called “Lavender” that...

A new Principled Technologies (PT) study — circulated as a press release and picked up by partner outlets — argues that adopting a single‑cloud approach for AI on Microsoft Azure can produce concrete benefits in performance, manageability, and cost predictability, while also leaving room for...

Microsoft’s president, Brad Smith, told reporters from his office at the Redmond campus that the company will “investigate and get to the truth” after a Guardian-led investigation alleged that Israel’s Unit 8200 had used Microsoft Azure to store and process vast troves of intercepted Palestinian...

A small but highly visible standoff at Microsoft’s Redmond campus this week crystallized a wider crisis for the company: employees confronting management over allegations that Microsoft’s cloud and AI technologies have been used by the Israeli military to store and process mass surveillance data...

Microsoft has opened a formal inquiry after fresh reports allege that Israel’s elite intelligence unit used Microsoft Azure to store and analyse vast volumes of intercepted Palestinian communications, raising urgent questions about cloud governance, corporate responsibility, and the role of big...

Arkane Studios’ Lyon-based union has publicly joined calls for Microsoft to sever ties with the Israeli military, putting one of the games industry’s most respected studios at the center of a widening debate about cloud providers, AI, corporate responsibility, and the ethics of doing business in...

Microsoft’s cloud business is at the center of a fraught ethical, legal and commercial storm after new reporting tied Azure to intelligence workloads used by Israel’s military, forcing a reckoning over what cloud providers can — and should — do when sovereign customers appear to repurpose...

Arkane Studios union members have joined a high-profile call for Microsoft to sever ties with the Israeli military, saying the parent company’s cloud and AI services “have no place being accomplice of a genocide,” and aligning their demands with the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS)...

A new wave of reporting is forcing Microsoft’s relationship with Israel’s security apparatus into the harshest spotlight yet, after fresh investigations alleged that the company’s Azure cloud became a backbone for storing and analyzing intercepted Palestinian phone calls at massive scale—and...

A torrent of revelations has cast a harsh light on how Microsoft’s Azure cloud technology has been leveraged by Israel’s Unit 8200, the country’s military intelligence agency, to conduct sweeping surveillance of Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank. Multiple investigations report this...

Indonesia is stepping forward with a bold humanitarian initiative, preparing the island of Galang to host a medical centre dedicated to treating approximately 2,000 wounded Palestinians from Gaza, demonstrating Southeast Asia’s growing role in global humanitarian relief. As the ongoing war in...

A cascade of investigative reports, United Nations findings, and whistleblower testimony has ignited global debate over the role of Microsoft and other big tech companies as the digital infrastructure underlying Israel’s surveillance and military operations in Gaza. At the heart of this...

The recent revelation that Israel’s military intelligence agency has leveraged Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform to store and analyze intercepted Palestinian phone calls on a massive scale marks a watershed moment for the intersection of cloud computing, surveillance, and global human rights...

In the besieged Gaza Strip, where over two million Palestinians face acute hunger, the reliance on airdropped humanitarian aid has proven both inadequate and perilous. Despite the presence of more than 22,000 aid trucks stationed just kilometers away, Israeli restrictions have permitted only 14%...

The international community’s attention has again been drawn to the ongoing conflict in the Gaza Strip after a recent attack targeted the Holy Family Church, one of the last remaining Christian sanctuaries in the region. According to a report by the UAE’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the...

Microsoft’s relationship with the Israeli government and military has thrust the global tech giant into a maelstrom of shareholder dissent, mounting employee activism, and sharp external criticism. Over the past year, the company’s provision of Azure cloud infrastructure and AI services to the...

In recent months, Microsoft has found itself at the center of an intensifying debate over the ethical use of its artificial intelligence and cloud computing technologies by military organizations, most prominently the Israeli military amid the ongoing war in Gaza. This debate has resurfaced not...

This controversy arose because Microsoft’s commercial relationship with the Israeli military—specifically the Israeli Ministry of Defense (IMOD)—came under intense scrutiny from investors, employees, human rights organizations, and the wider public, especially during and after the escalation of...

Here’s a summary of the main points from the AOL.com article titled “Microsoft employee shouts over Satya Nadella’s keynote to protest claims of ‘Israel’s war crimes powered by Azure’”: During a keynote address delivered by Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, a Microsoft employee interrupted the event...