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A Microsoft engineer slammed the company's leadership at Monday's Build 2025 conference in Seattle, accusing the tech company of complicity in Israeli genocide that has killed more than 53,000 Palestinians in Gaza since October 2023.

Joe Lopez, a firmware engineer on the Azure hardware systems team and member of activist group No Azure for Apartheid, interrupted CEO Satya Nadella's keynote address. "Satya! How about you show how Microsoft is killing Palestinians? How about you show the Israeli war crimes are powered by Azure," he shouted.

"As a Microsoft worker, I refuse to be complicit in this genocide," Lopez declared before being removed from the event. He was joined by a former Google employee who had previously protested that company's cloud contracts with Israel.

Following his removal, Lopez emailed thousands of Microsoft colleagues expressing dismay over the company's ongoing contracts with Israel's Defense Ministry.

"I can no longer stand by in silence as Microsoft continues to facilitate Israel's ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people," Lopez wrote, dismissing Microsoft's internal reviews as inadequate and calling for greater transparency.

"Leadership rejects our claims that Azure technology is being used to target or harm civilians in Gaza. Those of us who have been paying attention know that this is a bold-faced lie," the email said.

The protest represents escalating tensions within the broader No Azure for Apartheid movement, a collective of current and former Microsoft employees opposing contracts they claim support mass surveillance and AI-driven communication monitoring in Gaza.

Microsoft has confirmed providing cloud and AI services to Israel's Defense Ministry while denying its tools were used to harm civilians. The company said it had launched internal and external reviews, finding "no evidence to date that Microsoft's Azure and AI technologies have been used to target or harm people in the conflict."

The controversy unfolds as Israel maintains closure of Gaza's crossings to humanitarian aid since March 2, deepening a crisis affecting 2.4 million Palestinians who depend entirely on such assistance.