Microsoft has dismissed four employees who joined workplace protests against the tech giant’s contracts with Israel amid its ongoing war on Gaza.

Anna Hattle and Riki Fameli were among those arrested after a sit‑in at company president Brad Smith’s office; both later received voicemail notices of termination, according to the activist group No Azure for Apartheid. The group said two others — Nisreen Jaradat and Julius Shan — were also fired after participating in protest encampments at Microsoft’s headquarters.

Demonstrators accuse the company of enabling Israeli military operations through its Azure cloud, citing a joint investigation that found Israeli surveillance agencies use the platform to store mass phone data from Palestinians. Rights groups have condemned corporate ties to Israel as Gaza’s humanitarian crisis deepens.