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Amazon suspended a software engineer who protested the company's work with the Israeli government, CNBC has confirmed.

Ahmed Shahrour, a Palestinian engineer who works for Amazon's Whole Foods business and is based in Seattle, was informed Monday morning that he was being suspended with pay "until further notice" after he posted messages on Slack criticizing the company's ties to Israel.

"It has come to Amazon's attention that a post you made in multiple internal company Slack channels may violate multiple policies," an Amazon human resources representative wrote in a message, which was viewed by CNBC. The company said in the message that it's investigating the incident.

Earlier Monday, Shahrour posted m

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