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‘No restrictions’ and a secret ‘wink’: Inside Israel’s deal with Google, Amazon

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Written by Yuval Abraham | +972 Magazine Yuval Abraham | +972 Magazine
Published: 29 October 2025 29 October 2025

To secure the lucrative Project Nimbus contract, the tech giants agreed to disregard their own terms of service and sidestep legal orders by tipping Israel off if a foreign court demands its data, a joint investigation reveals.

In 2021, Google and Amazon signed a $1.2 billion contract with the Israeli government to provide it with advanced cloud computing and AI services — tools that were used during Israel’s two-year onslaught on the Gaza Strip. Details of the lucrative contract, known as Project Nimbus, were kept under wraps.

But an investigation by +972 Magazine, Local Call, and The Guardian can now reveal that Google and Amazon submitted to highly unorthodox “controls” that Israel inserted into the deal, in anticipation of legal challenges over its use of the technology in the occupied West Bank and Gaza.

Leaked Israeli Finance Ministry documents obtained by The Guardian — including a finalized version of the contract — and sources familiar with the negotiations reveal two stringent demands that Israel imposed on the tech giants as part of the deal. The first prohibits Google and Amazon from restricting how Israel uses their products, even if this use breaches their terms of service. The second obliges the companies to secretly notify Israel if a foreign court orders them to hand over the country’s data stored on their cloud platforms, effectively sidestepping their legal obligations.

Read more at: https://www.972mag.com/project-nimbus-contract-google-amazon-israel/

ACLU Oregon: Know Your Rights: Immigrants' Rights

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Written by ACLU Oregon ACLU Oregon
Published: 23 October 2025 23 October 2025

IF YOU OR SOMEONE YOU LOVE IS BEING DEPORTED:  
We encourage you to contact a lawyer as soon as possible. You can also reach out to the PIRC hotline for support.  
Portland Immigrant Rights Coalition (PIRC) hotline: 1-888-622-1510

To report ICE activity in protected locations in your community like courts, schools and places of worship, you can call: 
Sanctuary Promise hotline: 1-844-924-STAY/1-844-6-AMPARO

For more information see: https://www.aclu-or.org/en/know-your-rights-immigrants-rights-og

ICJ orders Israel to allow aid into Gaza and says blockade had been a breach

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Written by Patrick Wintour Diplomatic editor | The Guardian Patrick Wintour Diplomatic editor | The Guardian
Published: 22 October 2025 22 October 2025

Israel must allow aid into Gaza, and its restrictions on doing so over the past two years have put it in breach of its obligations, the UN’s top court has found.

The stinging advisory opinion by the International Court of Justice in The Hague also found that Israel had a duty not to impede the supply of aid by UN organisations including the beleaguered UN Palestinian relief agency Unrwa, which has been in effect banned from the territory since January.

The court found Israel had not produced adequate evidence to justify ending cooperation with Unrwa on the basis it was not a neutral organisation under the Geneva conventions.

The court instead found the organisation was the backbone of all humanitarian assistance in the area, requiring Israel to cooperate with the organisation in good faith.

The ruling that Israel has violated the UN’s immunities as set out in the UN charter, as well as ignored its humanitarian obligations as an occupying power under the Geneva conventions is bound to lead to further calls for Israel’s suspension from the UN.

Read more at: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/22/icj-orders-israel-to-allow-aid-into-gaza-and-says-blockade-had-been-a-breach

Jewish figures across the globe call on UN and world leaders to sanction Israel

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Written by Joseph Gedeon in Washington | The Guardian Joseph Gedeon in Washington | The Guardian
Published: 22 October 2025 22 October 2025

Exclusive: In an open letter, Israeli ex-officials, artists and intellectuals say ‘unconscionable’ actions in Gaza amount to genocide

Prominent Jewish figures around the world are calling on the United Nationsand world leaders to impose sanctions on Israel over what they describe as “unconscionable” actions amounting to genocide in Gaza.

Over 450 signatories, including former Israeli officials, Oscar winners, authors and intellectuals have signed an open letter demanding accountability over Israel’s conduct in Gaza, the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem. The letter’s release comes as EU leaders meet in Brussels on Thursday amid reports they plan to shelve proposals for sanctions over human rights violations.

“We have not forgotten that so many of the laws, charters, and conventions established to safeguard and protect all human life were created in response to the Holocaust,” the signatories write. “Those safeguards have been relentlessly violated by Israel.”

Signatories include former speaker of the Israeli Knesset Avraham Burg, former Israeli peace negotiator Daniel Levy, British author Michael Rosen, Canadian author Naomi Klein, Oscar-winning film-maker Jonathan Glazer, US actor Wallace Shawn, Emmy winners Ilana Glazer and Hannah Einbinder, and Pulitzer prize winner Benjamin Moser.

Read more at:https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/22/jewish-notables-open-letter-un-sanction-israel

We are told the ‘war’ against Gaza is finally ‘over’. Is it?

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Written by Arwa Mahdawi Arwa Mahdawi
Published: 16 October 2025 16 October 2025

I am not celebrating the end of the ‘war’ because this was not a war – and it’s not over, either

Again, I am thankful that the killing has slowed down. But let us not be naive here. Gaza has been rendered uninhabitable for a reason; settler attacks and home demolitions in the West Bank have ramped up for a reason. When people like the Israeli prime minister talk about “peace” in the region, the peace they appear to be referencing is the peace of finally being able to ignore the existence of Palestinians. A peace in which Palestinians have been expelled from their homeland. In May, for example, as Haaretz noted, the Israeli daily Maariv reported that Netanyahu told the Knesset foreign affairs and security committee: “We are destroying more and more homes. They have nowhere to return to. The only expected outcome will be the desire of Gazans to emigrate out of the Strip.” Netanyahu has made frequent references to the idea of mass population transfer from Gaza, the so-called “Trump plan”. This is the “peace” that Israel and the US seem to be working towards.

Read more at: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/oct/16/is-gaza-war-over

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