On Thursday, Microsoft announced it has disabled certain services used by an Israeli military unit following early evidence supporting reports of mass surveillance on Palestinian phone calls.

A joint investigation published in August by the Guardian and other media outlets found that an Israeli military agency was making use of Microsoft’s Azure software to store countless recordings of mobile phone calls made by Palestinians living in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza .

That prompted an internal review by Microsoft.

“We do not provide technology to facilitate mass surveillance of civilians,” Microsoft President Brad Smith said in a company blog.

The review is ongoing, but details of the Israel Ministry of Defence’s (IMOD) consumption of Azure storage capacity in the Netherla

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