It was early 2025, and Ibtihal Aboussad couldn’t believe what she had just read.
The company at which she had spent the past three years working as a software engineer in the AI department was actively providing the Israeli military with the AI infrastructure to carry out what several leading human rights groups and experts have described as a “genocide” in Gaza.
In the stream of stories she had parsed through, Abbousad found that through an initiative called Project Azure, Microsoft was providing a range of computing services to support Israel’s military operations, including AI operations that helped the Israeli military conduct operations in Gaza.
These products, including a suite of communication technology, were being used by the Israeli army’s notorious Unit 8200 and Unit 81, as well as an air force unit, known as the Ofek, to build “kill lists”. ……more
