October 8, 2025 - The unit is known for producing ... unique experience with advanced military-grade technologies. It is no secret that the unit has ties with civilian tech companies, including Microsoft....

August 7, 2025 - A senior source in Unit 8200 explained that Sariel viewed his relationship with Nadella, the Microsoft CEO, as a tool to advance “revolutions” in mass surveillance of Palestinians.

September 29, 2025 - “Amnesty International welcomes reports of Microsoft’s decision to terminate Israel’s Unit 8200’s access to certain Azure Cloud storage and AI services, however it is crucial that Microsoft investigate all its contracts, sales and transfers of surveillance, artificial intelligence and related equipment to Israel and ensure that they are not being used in connection with Israel’s human rights violations against Palestinians.

September 25, 2025 - (Courtesy of No Azure For Apartheid) ... being published; according to their sources, the unit planned to transfer the data to the Amazon Web Services cloud platform instead, upon whose services the army has also grown ...

January 23, 2025 - Azure, Microsoft’s cloud platform, was used by multiple military intelligence units, including Unit 8200 and Unit 81, which develops cutting-edge spy technology for Israel’s intelligence community.

August 6, 2025 - Revealed: Israel's Unit 8200 uses Microsoft's Azure cloud to record millions of Palestinian phone calls, aiding military strikes.

August 6, 2025 - The company alleged that its “engagement with Unit 8200 has been based on strengthening cybersecurity and protecting Israel from nation-state and terrorist cyber-attacks.” · They added, “At no time during this engagement has Microsoft been aware of the surveillance of civilians or collection of their cellphone conversations using Microsoft’s services, including through the external review it commissioned.”

September 26, 2025 - The project was so expansive that, according to sources from Unit 8200 – which is equivalent in its remit to the US National Security Agency – a mantra emerged internally that captured its scale and ambition: “A million calls an hour.” · According to several sources, the enormous repository of intercepted calls – which amounted to as much as 8,000 terabytes of data – was held in a Microsoft datacentre in the Netherlands.

Feeling the spreading pressure worldwide, Microsoft has officially terminated access for Israel's notoriously genocidal cyber-espionage agency, Unit 8200, to specific AI and Azure cloud technologies used to collect millions of Palestinian civilian ...

September 26, 2025 - Thursday evening’s report on Microsoft cutting off the IDF’s Unit 8200 from its Azure cloud services landed with some surprise. Still, the military was not blindsided. According to various accounts, the unit had already withdrawn its stored data from Microsoft before the disconnection.

August 6, 2025 - Leaked documents and whistleblower accounts have disclosed that Unit 8200, Israel's elite intelligence unit, utilized a customized version of Microsoft's Azure cloud platform to conduct extensive surveillance on Palestinians in the Gaza Strip ...

August 7, 2025 - A senior source in Unit 8200 explained that Sariel viewed his relationship with Nadella as a tool to advance "revolutions" in mass surveillance of Palestinians. "Yossi bragged a lot, even to me, about his connection with Satya," the source said.

August 7, 2025 - ... A signal intelligence–gathering ... (Sigint) and code decryption, located on an observation point on the Israeli-Lebanese border near Rosh HaNikra crossing also known as Ras al-Naqoura crossing....

September 8, 2025 - Microsoft is probing its links with Israel’s Unit 8200 over mass surveillance of Palestinians using Azure, amid calls for tech accountability.

August 7, 2025 - However, the recent investigation has found several documents detailing how Unit 8200 was using Azure - stating that it would include raw intelligence and audio files, while interviews with 11 sources from Microsoft suggest that some knew what the project hoped to achieve.

August 6, 2025 - Sources from Unit 8200 said that the information stored in Azure served as a rich intelligence source, and that the Israeli military used it to blackmail individuals, detain them or justify killings afterward. “When they need to arrest someone and there isn’t a good enough reason to do so, that’s where they find the excuse,” one said, referring to the information stored in the Microsoft cloud.

September 26, 2025 - Microsoft announced Thursday that, ... determined that Unit 8200 used Microsoft's Azure platform to store and analyze millions of phone conversations of Palestinians in Gaza and in Judea and Samaria....

October 9, 2025 - The unit is known for producing ... advanced military-grade technologies. It is no secret that the unit has ties with civilian tech companies, including Microsoft....

September 25, 2025 - The findings led Microsoft to suspend all services provided to the intelligence unit, including cloud storage and AI tools. The 8200 unit has since moved the information elsewhere, reportedly using the Amazon Web Services cloud platform.