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According to the U.S. cable news network (CNN), the British Guardian and other media reports, after the Israeli Defense Army was bombed by the use of Microsoft cloud services of the U.S., the Palestinians were massively monitored, Microsoft responded on Thursday local time, the preliminary investigation showed that the relevant reports are true, at present the company has "stopped and disabled a set of cloud and artificial intelligence services used by the next department of the Israeli Defense Ministry".

Microsoft headquarters in Redmond, Washington, USA

The above response comes from Microsoft President and Vice Chairman Brad.and Smith.According to the Guardian, this is the first known case of U.S. tech companies withdrawing services to the Israeli military since the outbreak of a new Israeli conflict.

In the statement, Smith said that Microsoft "does not provide technology for mass surveillance of civilians" and that "while our review is still ongoing, we have found evidence to support what the Guardian reported".

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¡°Therefore, we have informed the Israeli Defense Ministry that Microsoft has decided to suspend and disable certain subscriptions and services of the Israeli Defense Ministry, which involves stopping their use of specific cloud storage and AI services and technologies,¡± Smith said, adding that the move will not affect Microsoft¡¯s cybersecurity services to Israel and other Middle East countries.

Regarding Microsoft¡¯s move, CNN said an Israeli security official said ¡°the Israeli Defense Forces¡¯ operational capabilities were not damaged.¡±

According to a survey conducted in early August by the British Guardian and Israeli media magazine +972, the Israeli 8200 intelligence force relied on Microsoft Azure services to store millions of recorded Palestinian calls in Gaza and the occupied West Bank.

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The Israeli army ordered the evacuation of the people of Gaza City, and the Gazans questioned: Can the south live?

On the evening of September 16, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs issued a statement saying that as Israel escalated its military operations in Gaza City in the north of the Gaza Strip and ordered local residents to evacuate, more Palestinians fled their homes.

¡°Gaza is burning.¡± Israeli Defence Minister Katz posted on his social media platform on Friday that the Israeli army will never retreat until it has completed the rescue of the detainees and destroyed Hamas. Meanwhile, displaced Gazais are escaping along the Israeli designated escape route ¨C the Rashid coastal road evacuation south.

The picture shows the evacuated Gaza people

In the swollen Gaza, the south seems not to be a refuge for Palestinians. The Hamas-controlled Gazan government media office said on 16th that people who witnessed the district¡¯s harsh environment have chosen to return to Gaza City after arriving in the Khan Yunis region in southern Gaza, and about 15,000 have now made such a choice.

In Gaza, where the bombings continued, there were a lot of people who chose to stay there. 49-year-old Fatima Zahra Savir had previously fled to the south of Gaza with her family, but now they are back here, and I don¡¯t know how to protect my four children. The car costs are also high, and I don¡¯t have a tent and no way to take away the things I¡¯ve left before. ¡±Savir said, ¡°There (South of Gaza) is no way to survive. We live around rats and insects, it¡¯s really awkward that day... There will also be explosions in the south, and what¡¯s the use of escaping to the south?¡±

Photographer Yusuf Mashharawi, 32, is also taking refuge with his family in Gaza City. "I haven't decided whether I want to go or not. I actually have nowhere to go." Mashharawi said that the Israeli military claims there is a so-called humanitarian zone in the south, but the fact is that they have been launching attacks in southern Gaza, too.

The Israeli army had previously asked the northern residents of Gaza to evacuate to the south, but those able to evacuate to the south were eventually not secured. According to previous reports, in October 2023, after the military requested the northern residents of the Gaza Strip to evacuate to the south, many people obeyed the warning and left their homes to seek safe asylum in the south of Gaza. But when they arrived in the so-called ¡°safe zone¡± they continued to suffer air strikes and unfortunately died (Red Star news reports: after Israel issued an evacuation order, about half a million Palestinians fled from the north of Gaza to the south, and were still afraid of air strikes). In January this year, the Israeli army began to allow Sahra citizens to return to the north

The international community strongly condemned Israeli actions on 16th, British Foreign Minister Cooper said Israel's attack on Gaza City was "extremely reckless and reproachful", while Prime Minister Netanyahu acknowledged Israel "is isolated", but he said at the same time "Israel has no other choice."