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Google workers arrested after protesting company's work with Israel

Tech workers are escalating their protests against sales to Israel as the war in Gaza continues.

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. 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.

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