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Videos show nine Google workers being removed by police from offices in New York and Sunnyvale, California, after occupying them in protest against a cloud deal with Israel’s government.

Nine Google workers were removed by police from company offices in New York and Sunnyvale, California, late Tuesday after staging an hours-long sit-in protest against a cloud contract with Israel ’s government. The Sunnyvale protest occupied the office of Thomas Kurian, CEO of Google ’s cloud division, at a building close to Google ’s main HQ in Silicon Valley for more than 8 hours. The New York protest occupied a common area on the tenth floor of Google 's Chelsea location.

2 billion cloud computing contract with the Israeli government known as Project Nimbus that also involves Amazon. Last week Time reported that the contract involves providing direct services to the Israel Defense Forces. The detained workers in New York include software engineers Hasan Ibraheem and Zelda Montes. They also include two workers who identified themselves by their first names as Jesús and Mohammed on a speaker-phone call with protesters outside Google’s New York office Tuesday.

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