Protestors gathered outside San Francisco ’s George Moscone Center on Monday at Microsoft ’s largest annual conference to demand that the tech giant cut all remaining ties with the Israeli military.

The group of former and current Microsoft workers descended on Microsoft Ignite, which had attracted over 15,000 attendees to showcase the company’s latest cloud and Artificial Intelligence innovations.

Organized by the group No Azure for Apartheid, the demonstrators claim that despite recent policy changes, Microsoft continues to provide essential cloud computing services supporting Israel’s military operations in Gaza and the West Bank.

“Microsoft thinks that they can pacify us with these half measures,” said Joe Lopez, a former engineer who disrupted CEO Satya Nadella’s keynote speech

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