Microsoft has revoked the Israeli military’s access to a software it used to store data on millions of phone calls by Palestinian civilians, according to a letter obtained by the Guardian.

In doing so, the company becoming the first U.S. tech giant to penalize Israel amid its war in Gaza —and following demands from pro-Palestinian activists.

The termination of the Israeli military’s access to Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform comes a month after an investigation by three media companies on two continents revealed that Unit 8200, the military’s elite spy agency, had used the technology to conduct a mass surveillance program on Palestinians.

The investigation was published jointly by the Guardian , the Israeli-Palestinian publication +972 Magazine and the Hebrew-language outlet Local

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