Microsoft’s Redmond headquarters has become the point of intense employee protests, fueled by reports that the company's Azure cloud platform and artificial intelligence (AI) technologies are being used by the ‘Israeli’ military for mass surveillance and AI-driven targeting of Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank.

The protests, led by a group called "No Azure for Apartheid," began with a Tuesday encampment of approximately 50 people who established what they called a "Martyred Palestinian Children's Plaza".