Amazon has suspended a Palestinian software engineer after he publicly opposed the company's ties with the Israeli government through internal channels.

He criticised the tech giant's cloud computing contract with the Israeli government, known as Project Nimbus, Arab News reported.

Ahmed Shahrour, who works for Amazon's Whole Foods business in Seattle, was suspended with pay until further notice after his internal posts and a letter addressed to CEO Andy Jassy lambasted the company's partnership with Israel. 

He alleged that Project Nimbus, launched in 2021, in collaboration with Google, provides the Israeli government with artificial intelligence (AI), data centres and other facilities. 

Soon after, Amazon sent Shahrour, who joined three years ago, a notice stating, "It has come to Amazon's attention that a post you made in multiple internal company Slack channels may violate multiple policies," according to CNBC. 

His access to company systems has since been revoked, and several of his messages have been deleted from Slack posts.

Shahrour, in a blog post on Medium, wrote, "Every day I write code at Whole Foods, I remember my brothers and sisters in Gaza being starved by Israel's man-made blockade.

Source:Ndtv