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    “Physically impeding other employees’ work and preventing them from accessing our facilities is a clear violation of our policies, and we will investigate and take action,” said Bailey Tomson, a Google spokesperson.

    Protesters entered the offices in New York and California around 2 p.m. Eastern time, vowing to stay there until the company met their demand that Google pull out of a $1.2 billion contract it shares with Amazon to provide cloud services and data centers to the Israeli government.

    Workers have circulated internal emails, protested outside company offices and staged a “die-in” outside one of Google’s buildings in San Francisco in December, blocking traffic on a busy downtown street.

    The protests were staged a day after pro-Palestinian activists blocked highways, bridges and the entrances to airports across the United States in coordinated demonstrations against Israel’s invasion of Gaza and U.S. military support for the country.

    But when it was initially signed, Israeli officials told reporters that the terms of the deal prohibit Google and Amazon from denying services to specific parts of the government, raising concerns among some tech employees that their work could be used for military purposes.

    Employees who oppose the contract with Israel have been clashing with their Tel Aviv-based co-workers since the conflict began in October, The Washington Post has previously reported.


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