Microsoft has blocked the Israeli army’s access to technology it was using to store data on Palestinian civilians in Gaza and the occupied West Bank after an investigation conducted by the Guardian , +972 Magazine and Local Call exposed the practice.

The investigation, published in August, revealed that Unit 8200, the Israeli military’s cyberwarfare agency, had been intercepting millions of phone calls made by Palestinians and storing the information on Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform. This information was used to plan deadly attacks on Gaza.

Since October, Israel has destroyed Gaza’s infrastructure and forcibly displaced about 90 percent of the population. The UN has declared that Israel has “deliberately deprived Palestinians in Gaza of resources indispensable for their surv

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