Microsoft announced Thursday that it is cutting off access to some of its services provided to a unit of Israel’s Ministry of Defense after learning that its technology was used to conduct a mass surveillance campaign against Palestinian citizens.

The agency within the Israel Defense Forces is known as Unit 8200, a spying unit that is known for its role in collecting signal intelligence and conducting cyberwarfare. Through reporting from The Guardian earlier this year, it was revealed that the unit was collecting and storing recordings of cellular calls made by Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank. The report indicated that the agency was collecting millions of calls every day and storing and processing them through Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform. The Guardian reported that as muc

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