The general manager of Microsoft's Israeli subsidiary, Alon Haimovich, is leaving the company following an internal inquiry into how its technology was used to surveil Palestinian civilians. The inquiry was launched after reporting revealed that Unit 8200 (Israel's elite military intelligence agency) had used Microsoft's Azure cloud platform to store and analyse millions of intercepted Palestinian phone calls from Gaza and the West Bank daily. Microsoft had already terminated Unit 8200's access to its cloud and AI services after initial findings showed a violation of its terms of service, which prohibit mass surveillance, and sources say the inquiry's conclusions prompted Haimovich's departure along with several other managers at the subsidiary.