Reactions against Microsoft, which supports genocide, are avalanche: Employees were handcuffed and detained

Two current employees and three former employees were reportedly detained after protesting the company's ties to the Israeli government.

Police restrained the protesters with full-body belts and carried them out of the building, according to Abdo Muhammed, a former Microsoft employee who helped organize the demonstration, The Guardian reported.

In addition to the protesters who staged a sit-in at Microsoft President Brad Smith's office, other employees, former staff and supporters also gathered in front of the headquarters.

The protest was part of a series of actions by current and former employees related to Microsoft's cloud contracts with the Israeli government. Last week, 20 activists were arrested at the company's headquarters in Redmond, Washington.

The latest protests follow a joint investigation by the British publication The Guardian, the Israeli-Palestinian publication +972 Magazine and the Hebrew publication Local Call, which revealed earlier this month that Israel's military surveillance agency, Unit 8200, used Microsoft's Azure software to store countless records of cell phone calls made by Palestinians living in the West Bank and Gaza.