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Footage shared on social media shows some activists on Sunday blocking access to a large Microsoft facility in the northwest of the country, while others climbed onto the building’s roof and lit flares.

The group "Geef Tegengas" (Push Back) said their protest was in response to a recent Guardian investigation that revealed how the Israeli military surveillance unit Unit 8200 used Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform to store a large number of Palestinians’ phone conversations.

A joint investigation by +972 Magazine and the Hebrew-language news outlet Local Call showed that Azure servers in the Netherlands host large amounts of Israeli military data.

Leaked Microsoft documents showed that as of July this year, 11,500 terabytes of Israeli military data – roughly 200 million hours of audio files – were stored on Azure servers in the Netherlands.

The activists said they are calling on all data center employees to stop working until all Israeli intelligence data is removed from the servers.