The National Post reports in its Friday edition that Google has fired 28 employees who participated in a protest against the company's cloud contract with the Israeli government. A Washington Post dispatch to the NP says the firings followed the arrest Tuesday of nine employees at a sit-in at Google's offices in New York and Sunnyvale, Calif. The workers were held for a few hours and released. In a statement, Google's parent Alphabet said that "physically impeding other employees' work and preventing them from accessing our facilities is a clear violation of our policies, and completely unacceptable behavior." The protests were organized by the "No Tech for Apartheid" campaign and protesters held signs that read "No More Genocide For Profit." The protesters say that Project Nimbus, a $1.2-billion (U.S.) contract granted to Google and Amazon in 2021, provides cloud services to the Israeli government and will bolster the government's surveillance of Palestinians and lead to further displacement and discrimination. Amazon also holds a Nimbus contract with Israel, and Amazon employees participated in the protest on Tuesday, but there have been no reports of Amazon workers being arrested or fired. Amazon declined to comment.