Activists protest in front of Microsoft building in Netherlands for its support of “Israel”

SANAA, Aug. 12 (YPA) – Dutch activists protested, on Tuesday, against the American company Microsoft for enabling the Israeli occupation army to store millions of hours of audio recordings of phone calls made by Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip.

“Geef Tegengas,” a group of activists gathered in front of Microsoft’s data center in the Dutch capital, Amsterdam, to protest the storage of Palestinian data.

The activists hung the Palestinian flag on the door of the Microsoft building and sat in front of the entrance, while others climbed onto its roof.

One activist said on social media that they gathered to block the entrance to the Microsoft building for its complicity with “Israel.”

Leaked documents from the company showed that, as of July 2025, 11,500 terabytes of Israeli army data had been stored, most of it on Microsoft servers in the Netherlands and some in Ireland and Israel.

The documents indicated that the stored amount is equivalent to about 200 million hours of Palestinian phone call recordings.

A report prepared by the Tel Aviv-based 972 website, in cooperation with the Local Call website and The Guardian newspaper, revealed that several units within the army purchased cloud computing services from Microsoft.

It stated that phone call records stored on the Microsoft platform by the Israeli military intelligence unit 8200 were used as intelligence to launch deadly air and ground attacks.