Israel's military intelligence Unit 8200 used a customised version of Microsoft's Azure cloud platform to conduct mass surveillance on Palestinians and help plan lethal airstrikes during the recent war, according to leaked documents and whistleblower accounts.
The collaboration, reportedly authorised by Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, began in 2022 and allowed the Israeli unit to record and store millions of phone calls from Gaza and the West Bank. Internal sources described the system as enabling an unprecedented scale of monitoring, far beyond previous capabilities.
