Microsoft has terminated Israeli military’s access to technology that was being used to operate a powerful surveillance system that collected millions of Palestinian civilian phone calls made each day in Gaza and the West Bank, The Guardian reported.

Last week, Microsoft informed Israeli officials that Unit 8200, the military’s elite spy agency, had violated the company’s terms of service by storing surveillance data in its Azure cloud platform.

According to a report by The Guardian, an investigation conducted along with Israeli-Palestinian publication +972 Magazine and the Hebrew-language outlet Local Call, Azure was being used to store and process the trove of Palestinian communications in a mass surveillance programme.

Following the report, Microsoft ordered an external inquiry to re

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