The Israeli military is using cloud storage and artificial intelligence services provided by U.S. tech titans for “direct participation and collaboration” in what many critics around the world call Israel’s genocidal assault on Gaza, according to an investigation published this week.

Two Israeli publications — 972 Magazine and Local Call — on Sunday published a joint investigation revealing that the Israeli military is using Amazon Web Services (AWS) to store data gleaned from the mass surveillance in Gaza, where nearly 10 months of bombings and ground invasion have left more than 140,000 Palestinians dead, maimed, or missing, according to local and international estimates.

Multiple sources told the outlets that pressure on the IDF since the October 7 Hamas-led attacks on Israel has “led to a dramatic increase in the purchase of services from Google Cloud, Amazon’s AWS, and Microsoft Azure.” The report states that cooperation between the IDF and AWS “is particularly close” and “even helped on rare occasions to confirm aerial assassination strikes in Gaza — strikes that would have also killed and harmed Palestinian civilians.”

US Big Tech corporations are helping Israel carry out genocide in Gaza, and profiting from it.

Israel's army is using Amazon’s cloud service to store surveillance data on Palestinians

Israel is using AI tools from Google & Microsoft for military purposeshttps://t.co/jbtYBnJxgN

IDF Col. Racheli Dembinsky — who spoke at a recent “IT for IDF” event near Tel Aviv — told investigative journalist Yuval Abraham that........

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