Microsoft says it stopped providing some cloud and AI services to Israel after allegations that it used the services to conduct mass surveillance of Palestinians in Gaza and the Israeli-occupied West Bank.

Microsoft has cut off some services to a unit in the Israel Defense Ministry after investigating allegations that it was using Microsoft cloud products for the mass surveillance of Palestinians.

"We do not provide technology to facilitate mass surveillance of civilians," Smith said in a Microsoft blog.

At least 48 people have been killed in Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip on Thursday, according to Palestinian reports.

Palestinians who were forced to flee Gaza City amid Israel’s offensive described 'inhuman conditions' in areas the Israeli military ordered them to move to in central and southern Gaza.

"I appeal to the world: help us. I say to Israel: you want us to evacuate, but how can we when we have no shekels, no transportation, and no place?"

The dawn of freedom will emerge.” Abbas told the U.N. General Assembly that Palestinians in Gaza “have been facing a war of genocide, destruction, starvation and displacement” by Israel. His speech came as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu heads to New York to give his own address in person on Friday.