Contact:
Connease Warren, Abolitionist Law Center, connease@alcenter.org
Sunyata Altenor, Center for Constitutional Rights, press@ccrjustice.org
Tech Justice Law, media@techjusticelaw.org

PHILADELPHIA—A coalition of legal groups – Abolitionist Law Center, Center for Constitutional Rights, and Tech Justice Law – notified Google LLC (“Google”) and its executive leadership of its potential legal liability for aiding and abetting atrocity crimes committed by Israel against the Palestinian population of Gaza.

Over the last two-and-a-half years, Israel has turned to cloud computing systems and artificial intelligence (AI) programs to facilitate its most brutal assault in Gaza to date–in what has been recognized as the world’s first “AI-powered genocide“–killing over 72,000 Palestinians, injuring over 172,000, and displacing nearly the entire population, with many displaced multiple times, some as many as 10 times. Israeli attacks have destroyed essential infrastructure, including hospitals, housing units, and refugee sites, on an unprecedented scale. A nominal ceasefire declared in October 2025 has not stopped these atrocities. Since the “ceasefire” declaration, Israel has continued to kill hundreds of Palestinians in Gaza, destroy thousands of buildings, and hinder the entry into Gaza of life-saving aid.

Just weeks before Alphabet, Google’s parent company, is scheduled to hold its Annual General Meeting, the aforementioned groups have shared a letter with Google executives outlining the close relationship between Google and the Israeli military and stating that there is a reasonable basis to conclude that the company facilitated, and even accelerated, genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity. The groups call on Google to take any and all measures necessary to rectify Google’s involvement in the Israeli government’s violations of international law, including immediately terminating Google’s provision of all products and services used to facilitate Israel’s commission of crimes.

In 2021, the Israeli government selected Google, alongside Amazon Web Services, as the joint winners of Project Nimbus, a $1.2 billion “overarching contractual framework providing the Israeli government with cloud computing services, including AI and machine learning programs,” the letter writes. Despite warnings from internal and external consultants that certain technologies could be used to commit human rights violations, the announcement that Google had secured the contract arrived just days before the Israeli military commenced sustained bombardment of Gaza in May 2021, killing< hundreds of Palestinians, including dozens of children.

“Project Nimbus arrived in the context of decades of well-documented Israeli crimes against the Palestinian population. That Israel would use Google’s technology to further its campaign of mass killing, displacement, and surveillance was entirely foreseeable,” said Bassel El-Rewini, attorney and the Human Rights Fellow at the Abolitionist Law Center. “Google ignored these warning signs in 2021, and continued to do so even as Israel committed genocide.”

Since 2023, as the Israeli government launched its assault on Gaza, Google–with direct and indirect knowledge–continually increased its services to the Israeli military, with employees repeatedly fulfulling requests by the Israeli military for expanded AI access during the attacks and providing Israel with facial recognition technology to target Palestinians for detention and torture.

“Google has repeatedly chosen profit over Palestinian lives, continuing to assist Israel under Project Nimbus even as Israeli officials openly acknowledged that Nimbus was essential to powering their assault on Gaza,” said Madeline Batt, Legal Fellow at Tech Justice Law. “Google must abide by its obligations under international and domestic law.”

International and domestic condemnation, including from employees, has continued to grow regarding the company’s AI contracts with militaries. Soon after Google won the Project Nimbus contract, employees began large-scale dissent and protests, which have only intensified since the genocide began. Earlier this month, UK workers developing the company’s artificial intelligence products voted to unionize, citing concerns over Google’s provision of services to the Israeli and U.S. militaries.

Google’s knowing provision of services used to commit the gravest of atrocities in Gaza potentially opens the corporation and individual officers up to a broad spectrum of criminal and civil legal liability, both internationally and in the United States. The legal groups urge Google to take immediate measures to cease its complicity in such harms, including to terminate all products and services used to facilitate Israel’s commission of crimes in Gaza and conduct a thorough, independent investigation to identify all other products and services which may be contributing to adverse human rights impacts against Palestinians in Gaza.

For more information, read the full text of the Letter to Google here.