It took a “peace” of paper, two years, and one day to be signed with an aim united to end genocide by Israel against Palestinians, exposed a darker reality behind modern warfare, how Big Tech’s cloud networks, surveillance tools, and AI systems became instruments of destruction and control.
The piece treaty, brokered by Egypt and Qatar, comes as new United Nations (UN) investigations show how corporations like Microsoft, Google, Amazon, and Meta have been mapping genocide supplied Israel with advanced technologies used in surveillance, data mining, and AI driven targeting.
Human rights experts warn that these systems transformed Gaza into what one report calls “a live laboratory for unprecedented technologies of violence,” combining innovation with occupation in ways that challenge international law violations in Gaza.
Big Tech’s War Mark Left on Gaza
Mounting red flag warning genocide evidence and new UN reports suggest that cloud computing, data analytics, and AI tools developed by these corporations have been repurposed for military use.
According to UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese’s report, From Economy of Occupation to Economy of Genocide, “Microsoft, Alphabet and Amazon grant Israel virtually governmentwide access to their cloud and artificial intelligence technologies, enhancing data processing, decision making and surveillance and analysis capacities.”
“In October 2023, when the Israeli internal military cloud overloaded, Microsoft, with its Azure platform, and the Project Nimbus consortium stepped in with critical cloud and artificial intelligence infrastructure,” the report highlighted.
The report identifies 48 corporate actors – including US giants and European defense firms – as part of an “economy of genocide.” It claims that Israel’s decades long occupation has become “the ideal testing ground for arms manufacturers and Big Tech,” describing Gaza as “a live laboratory for unprecedented technologies of violence.”
Microsoft Vice Chair Brad Smith recently confirmed the company “ceased and disabled a set of services to a unit within the Israel Ministry of Defense” after leaks that the Israeli military used Microsoft’s Azure cloud to store surveillance data on millions of Palestinians rather than using ways to stop the genocide.
A former Microsoft employee and member of the “No Azure for Apartheid” campaign, Nisreen Jaradat said, “The scale of the genocide in Palestine would not be possible without the direct complicity of Big Tech companies, especially Microsoft.”
Meanwhile, Israel’s Project Nimbus a $1.2 billion contract with Google and Amazon have claimed to have provided military grade infrastructure to process massive datasets and train AI driven targeting systems, including “Lavender,” “Gospel,” and “Where’s Daddy?”, which generate automated kill lists.
Long time Israeli ally Palantir Technologies was also reported to have scaled up predictive policing support after October 2023.
AI, Surveillance, and Digital Warfare Ethicality
Beyond the battlefield, tech platforms have been accused of censoring pro-Palestinian speech while facilitating hate speech directed at violence instead of being united to end genocide. Digital rights during genocide, were nowhere to be found. A report from 7amleh, a Palestinian digital rights organization, charged Meta with “algorithmic discrimination,” allowing Israeli officials to post incitement while removing Palestinian content.
“Meta still allowed many Israeli figures to continue using its platforms to incite violence against Palestinians,” said advocacy manager Jalal Abukhater.
Spain’s parliament has since approved arms companies complicit in genocide seize on Israel, citing “the genocide in Gaza,” and international legal experts are calling for corporate accountability.
Albanese’s report urges companies to stop the genocide movement and to stop from activities tied to the occupation.
How Can Genocide be Prevented?
AI, surveillance, and cloud technologies have become key instruments of modern warfare, the genocide and tolerance on Gaza could redefine how humans design, control, and question the ethics of technology itself.
This just shows the dark side of innovative tools and how they are built to connect and protect but rather are now allowing for domination and destruction, this results to no votes for genocide tech. Abukhater insists that digital complicity will pave the way for future legal cases to be able to have multiple ways to prevent genocide.
“Private actors will eventually have to be responsible, either to pay for violations or to face accountability under international law,” he said.
As the guns fall silent, the ceasefire shows not just the fragility of peace but the technological infrastructure of power itself. The digital battlefield that Gaza was experimented on should be able to shape the moral boundaries of global innovation, forcing an urgent realization over how far humanity was nowhere to be found yet technology was served to create war rather than being united to end genocide…
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