内容摘要：Revenue rose 2.5% to $165.61 billion, just short of analyst estimates.

Revenue rose 2.5% to $165.61 billion, just short of analyst estimates.

Like refugees in other contexts, Palestinians should have the freedom to choose whether to return to their country, said Omar Shakir, the Israel and Palestine director at Human Rights Watch. Countries that take in Palestinians from Gaza should seek assurances that they will be allowed to return if and when they choose, he said.For now, Israel is allowing Palestinians to return to Gaza after medical treatment. But the Palestinians fear that if the larger resettlement policy is enacted, they will be permanently exiled from their homeland, as hundreds of thousands were

. Those refugees and their descendants now number some 6 million, concentrated in built-up camps across the region.Two families who returned to Gaza said the road home included many checkpoints, and Israeli soldiers took their phones and money upon entering.Israel’s defense ministry said that during security checks of residents returning from Jordan to Gaza, some people were found carrying undeclared cash amounts exceeding “normal limits” and was suspected of being “intended for terrorist use” in Gaza. It said the money was being held while the circumstances were investigated.

It was unclear whether any aid organizations helped facilitate the children’s return.In March, the World Health Organization worked with the Jordanians to evacuate the sick children from Gaza, according to Jordan’s government. The WHO did not respond to requests for comment on whether they were involved in the transfer back to Gaza.

For some families there were no good options.

Arafat Yousef’s 12-year-old son, who lost a leg to an Israeli airstrike, waited eight months to get a prosthetic limb in Jordan.on Microsoft’s corporate website appears to be the company’s first public acknowledgement of its deep involvement in the war, which started after Hamas killed about 1,200 people in Israel and has led to the deaths of tens of thousands in Gaza.

It comes nearly three months after anrevealed previously unreported details about the American tech giant’s close partnership with the Israeli Ministry of Defense, with military use of commercial AI products skyrocketing by nearly 200 times after the deadly Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attack. The AP reported that the Israeli military uses Azure to transcribe, translate and process intelligence gathered through mass surveillance, which can then be cross-checked with Israel’s in-house AI-enabled targeting systems and vice versa.

The partnership reflects a growing drive by tech companies to sell their artificial intelligence products to militaries for a wide range of uses, including in Israel, Ukraine and the United States. However, human rights groups have raised concerns that AI systems, which can be flawed and prone to errors, are being used to help make decisions about who or what to target, resulting in the deaths of innocent people.Microsoft said Thursday that employee concerns and media reports had prompted the company to launch an internal review and hire an external firm to undertake “additional fact-finding.” The statement did not identify the outside firm or provide a copy of its report.