American tech giant Amazon was quietly doing business with the bomb-makers behind the Israeli regime’s two-year-plus war of genocide in Gaza as thousands of Palestinians were being killed under the regime’s relentless aggression, a report has revealed.
Internal documents obtained by The Intercept revealed that Amazon Web Services (AWS) provided advanced cloud-computing and artificial intelligence tools to the Israeli arms companies Rafael and Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI), whose weapons have torn through Gaza’s homes, schools, and refugee camps, the American news outlet reported on Friday.
This is while Amazon would publicly claim to uphold human rights, despite its verified complicity in the genocide that began in October 2023 and has proven to be one of the deadliest campaigns against civilians in modern history.
The documents have confirmed that the tech colossus continued to supply software and cloud services to both arms firms throughout 2024 and 2025.
The period featured the regime’s claiming the lives of thousands of Palestinians, among the 62,800-plus, who have perished throughout the genocide so far.
The timespan also witnessed displacement of thousands of others, and reduction of the biggest part of the coastal sliver to rubble.
Amazon’s involvement stems from Project Nimbus, a $1.2-billion cloud contract signed in 2021 with the regime and its military.
Under the deal, Amazon and Google pledged to provide data-processing, storage, and machine-learning services, including to the regime’s ministry of military affairs, intelligence agencies, and nuclear facilities.
Internal communications showed that Amazon not only kept its side of the bargain during the genocide, but also actively lobbied Israeli regulators to let it handle classified military data.
Among Amazon’s clients, Rafael, maker of precision-guided bomb kits, would turn 2,000-pound explosives into “smart” weapons. These bombs were used in strikes that wiped out entire Palestinian families and obliterated so-called “safe zones.”
United Nations officials called one September 2024 attack on a refugee camp “unconscionable” after at least 19 people, including women and children, perished.
Fragments of a bomb guidance kit were later found at another strike site in central Gaza, where 12 civilians were killed.
Rafael’s deadly Spike missiles, capable of spraying tungsten shrapnel that shreds flesh and organs, have also been repeatedly linked to horrific injuries among civilians.
In April 2024, a Times of London investigation found that one of Rafael’s drone-launched Spike missiles had killed seven humanitarian aid workers from World Central Kitchen.
Retired US Air Force targeting expert Wes Bryant said Rafael and the IAI were “integral” to the regime’s military complex and directly “implicated in killing civilians.”
The documents also showed that Rafael had used Amazon’s AI models, including Claude by Anthropic, despite company policies supposedly banning any use for weapons development.
The arms company has, meanwhile, reported “record revenues” in 2024 due to its role in the war. “Rafael played a significant role in Israel’s military achievements,” boasted CEO Yoav Turgeman.
Amazon also sold services to the regime’s Soreq Nuclear Research Center and to administrative offices in the occupied West Bank, where Tel Aviv has been expanding its illegal settlements in violation of the international law.
The company, however, has refused to answer whether it conducted any due diligence before partnering with these entities.
“We’re committed to assessing and addressing adverse human rights impacts,” it alleges on its website.
Legal scholars have argued that Amazon’s involvement could amount to aiding and abetting war crimes.
“There is no need for genocidal intent for accessorial liability,” said Ioannis Kalpouzos, a Harvard law expert. “It is enough if a company provides assistance knowing it contributes to atrocities.”
“I don’t see how Amazon can claim not to be complicit in killing, even if they don’t fully know what everything is used for,” Bryant added, addressing the same issue.
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