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Microsoft fired employees who organised vigil for Palestinians killed in Gaza
On Friday, Microsoft fired two employees who organised a vigil at the company’s headquarters for Palestinians killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza. Microsoft said it has “ended the employment of some individuals in accordance with internal policy” without providing details.
The event took place on Thursday afternoon at Microsoft’s campus in Redmond, Washington.
Both workers were members of a coalition of employees called “No Azure for Apartheid” that has opposed Microsoft’s sale of its cloud-computing technology to the Israeli government. But they contended that the vigil was similar to other Microsoft-sanctioned employee giving campaigns for people in need.
It’s the latest internal turmoil at a tech giant over the Israeli war on Gaza. Google earlier this year fired more than 50 workers after protests over technology the company is supplying the Israeli government as it wages war on the besieged coastal enclave.
UNICEF: ‘When you think the situation can’t get worse it actually does’
A spokeswoman from the UN agency for children says northern Gaza is a disaster zone after the Israeli military’s three-week ground incursion.
“I would like to impress on all viewers the gravity of the situation here in Gaza, specifically in the north. Attacks have been escalating, hospitals and schools used as shelters haven’t been spared,” UNICEF’s Rosalia Bollen told Al Jazeera.
“It’s been extremely difficult to bring supplies to the north with only 224 trucks reaching. But 224 trucks is the number we’d like to get in on a daily basis, not for an entire month. In the hospitals, there’s no food or water for patients. There’s no fuel, no electricity.”
Malnutrition is expected to affect 60,000 Palestinian children in Gaza in the coming months, she said. “When you think the situation can’t get worse, it actually does.”
