Google fires about 20 more employees over recent protests against a deal between the technology giant and Israel.

The rights group says Israel uses a number of artificial intelligence-supported technological systems to illegally track Palestinians.

Google fired 28 employees on Wednesday involved in a protest against the cloud-computing contract with Israel.

Police have arrested nine Google employees at the tech giant’s offices in New York City and Sunnyvale, California, after staging an hours-long sit-in in protest against the company’s $1.2-billion Nimbus contract with the Israeli regime.

A growing number of Google employees have called on the company to drop the $1.2 billion contract that provides Israel with cloud and machine learning services.

Amid the Israeli genocide in Gaza, workers at Google and Amazon have stepped up pressure on their companies to cut ties with the regime, including the controversial Project Nimbus.

Google fires a pro-Palestine employee for protesting at an Israeli tech conference.