Google fires engineer for raising voice for Palestine during Israeli Tech conference

Tech giant Google has terminated its employee for raising his voice in support of Palestine during a conference organised by Israel.

According to the details, the incident happened during an event held to sign a contract between Google and the Israel government.

An unidentified employee stood up during the speech of the head of Google Israel, Barak Regev, and voiced against the project Nimbus.

"I refuse to build technology that empowers genocide," a man wearing an orange Google shirt said.

Nimbus is a $1.2bn project by Google and Amazon to supply Israel and its military with cloud and computing services.

"Project Nimbus puts Palestinian community members in danger," yelled the employee, who identified himself as a cloud software engineer.

Following the incident, A Google spokesman said the employee was fired for "interfering with an official company-sponsored event".

The genocide being carried out by Israeli forces in Gaza has entered its sixth month with, on average, a child being killed every 10 minutes and almost the entire population of the occupied enclave becoming homeless.

On October 7, news emerged that Hamas had bulldozed the wall that imprisoned Gaza's 2.3 million population. Gaza, surrounded by Israel's apartheid wall, remains isolated from the rest of the world and faces a debilitating siege.

As of now, over 30,000 Palestinians have been killed by Israel in strikes on Gaza.