Yuval Abraham

Yuval Abraham is a journalist and filmmaker based in Jerusalem.

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Source image: Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) in Los Angeles, California, June 12, 2025. (DHSgov/Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons). Graphic by +972.

ICE tripled its reliance on Microsoft in last six months, leaked files reveal

Documents show the U.S. agency is storing large amounts of data on Microsoft's cloud while making use of its AI tools to analyze videos and images.

By Yuval Abraham February 17, 2026

Israel Prison Service officers prepare Palestinian prisoners for release as part of a hostage deal between Israel and Hamas, at Kteziot Prison, southern Israel, February 26, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

New data reveals 98 Palestinian deaths in Israeli custody since October 7

Post-mortems of the deceased and testimonies from former detainees suggest many died from torture, medical neglect, and food deprivation. According to a leaked Israeli intelligence database, dozens were civilians.

By Yuval Abraham November 17, 2025

Google's headquarters in Mountain View, California, and Amazon Web Service's office in Houston, Texas. (The Pancake of Heaven!, CC BY-SA 4.0; Tony Webster, CC BY 2.0)

‘No restrictions’ and a secret ‘wink’: Inside Israel’s deal with Google, Amazon

To secure the lucrative Project Nimbus contract, the tech giants agreed to disregard their own terms of service and sidestep legal orders by tipping Israel off if a foreign court demands its data, a joint investigation reveals.

By Yuval Abraham October 29, 2025

Israeli soldiers in the northern Gaza Strip, July 22, 2025. (Oren Cohen/Flash90)

One target at a time: The logic that helped Israeli liberals commit genocide

By attaching a military goal to each act of killing, Israelis of all stripes could partake in the slaughter without questioning the morality of their actions.

By Yuval Abraham October 20, 2025

Microsoft development center in Herzliya Pituah, October 30, 2020. (Gili Yaari/Flash90)

Microsoft revokes cloud services from Israel’s Unit 8200, following +972 exposé

The tech giant blocked access after we revealed the Israeli army had been using its servers to store millions of Palestinians' intercepted phone calls.

By Yuval Abraham September 25, 2025

Palestinian detainees from Gaza seen in a courtyard in a prison in southern Israel, February 14, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Israeli intelligence data: Militants account for only 1 in 4 Gaza detainees

A classified Israeli army database indicates that the vast majority of the 6,000 Palestinians who have been arrested in Gaza and held in appalling conditions in Israeli detention are civilians, a joint investigation finds.

By Yuval Abraham September 4, 2025

Palestinians wait to receive the bodies of their relatives who were killed in an Israeli airstrike, at Al-Najjar Hospital, southern Gaza Strip, December 7, 2023. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

Israeli army database suggests at least 83% of Gaza dead were civilians

Classified intelligence from May reveals Israel believed it had killed some 8,900 militants in its attacks on Gaza, indicating a proportion of civilian slaughter with few parallels in modern warfare, a joint investigation finds.

By Yuval Abraham August 21, 2025

Family and friends mourn near the body of Palestinian journalist Saed Sabri Abu Nabhan, who was shot and killed by an Israeli army sniper, at Al Awda Hospital in northern Gaza, January 11, 2025. (Ali Hassan/Flash90)

‘Legitimization Cell’: Israeli unit tasked with linking Gaza journalists to Hamas

Treating the media as a battlefield, a secretive army intelligence squad scoured Gaza for material to bolster Israeli hasbara — including questionable claims that would justify the killing of Palestinian reporters.

By Yuval Abraham August 14, 2025

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, and Microsoft's Israel R&D Center. (World Economic Forum/CC BY-NC-SA 2.0; Gili Yaari/Flash90))

Microsoft storing Israeli intelligence trove used to attack Palestinians

The tech giant developed a customized version of its cloud platform for Israel’s Unit 8200, which is housing audio files of millions of calls by Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank, a joint investigation reveals.

By Yuval Abraham August 6, 2025

Awdah Hathaleen celebrates his 27th birthday with friends, in Um Al-Khair, the West Bank. (Emily Glick)

‘The most peaceful person’: Umm Al-Khair mourns activist slain by Israeli settler

Contrary to the settler’s account, eyewitness testimony and analysis of video footage shows that Awdah Hathaleen was gunned down in cold blood.

By Basel Adra, Yuval Abraham and Oren Ziv July 29, 2025