How Israel used Microsoft technology to spy on Palestinians
Today in Focus
The Guardian
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🗓️ 14 August 2025
⏱️ 33 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is The Guardian. |
| 0:09.3 | Today, when Israel's spy chief met Microsoft's CEO. |
| 0:19.8 | Today in focus is supported by UK for UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency. |
| 0:28.3 | Do you ever think about how much suffering goes unreported? |
| 0:32.8 | And if you don't know, how can you ever choose to do something about it? |
| 0:41.1 | Right now, Sudan is experiencing one of the largest and fastest growing humanitarian crises in the world, but it's not dominating headlines. |
| 0:49.1 | Ongoing conflict and violence has forced millions of people to flee their homes and over 25 |
| 0:56.7 | million are in urgent need of help lacking food, water, medicine and shelter. |
| 1:05.1 | But there is something we can do. UNHCR is the UN Refugee Agency and protects people fleeing conflict and persecution around the world. |
| 1:15.6 | It has teams on the ground right now in Sudan and in neighbouring countries delivering life-saving aid to families searching for safety. |
| 1:26.6 | They're providing thermal blankets, clean water and emergency shelter, and they need your help to keep delivering. |
| 1:35.3 | Your donation today could make a massive difference to someone who's been forced to flee their home in Sudan. |
| 1:43.3 | Search UNHCR Sudan appeal and donate to help deliver vital, life-saving aid and protection to refugees and displaced people. I'm In November 2021, an Israeli intelligence commander landed in Seattle for a series of confidential meetings. |
| 2:13.6 | His name is Yossi Sariel, and at the time he was in charge of Unit 8200, a branch of Israel's military intelligence. |
| 2:22.4 | He had a plan for a massive clandestine surveillance project, but it would need advanced computing power. |
| 2:28.5 | So Sariel went to one of the biggest tech companies in the world, Microsoft. |
| 2:32.9 | So the campus looks a little bit like university. It's very big, it's quite green, you have |
| 2:37.4 | engineers wandering around with laptops. And he spent the day on the campus talking to executives, |
| 2:44.0 | holding meetings, and it was during his trip to the headquarters that he met with |
| 2:49.1 | Satchin Adela, the CEO of Microsoft. |
| 2:52.8 | This is Harry Davis, Investigations correspondent at The Guardian, |
| 2:56.8 | who has exclusively revealed what was discussed between one of the most powerful men in Israel |
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