ALBAWABA - Amid the firing of 28 pro-Palestine employees after their stance on the ongoing Israeli aggression on Gaza and the company's contract with Israel, Google announced laying off about 20 more workers taking their number to a total of 50, according to the Washington Post.
This comes after the CEO of Google Sundar Pichai said that the company isn't for politics. Additionally, the head of global security Chris Rackow also weighed on the tech giant's zero-tolerance for protests of this caliber and behavior.
Google fires another 20 pro-Palestine employees
He said, "Behavior like this has no place in our workplace and we will not tolerate it," and "Following the investigation, today we terminated the employment of twenty-eight employees found to be involved. We will continue to investigate and take action as needed".
A spokesperson of Google confirmed the layoffs after the company investigated the Apr. 16 protests that took place at two Google offices in Sunnyvale, California, and New York City where the pro-Palestine employees held a 10-hour sit-in.
Project Nimbus and Gaza now
(Photo by AFP)
The Nimbus Project is a cloud service that enables data storage, collection, and the prediction of potential data and motifs. The contract in question was signed by Google in April 2021 with the addition of Amazon as well.
Israel's ongoing aggression on Gaza has resulted in the killing of more than 34,151 Palestinians of whom are innocent children.
Additionally, at least 77,084 are injured from the continued attacks and 27 children are malnutrition victims, according to the Ministry of Health in Gaza.
