STORY: Google fired 28 employees after some staffers staged protests against the tech giant's business ties to the Israeli government.
Parent company Alphabet said on Thursday that a small number of protesting employees entered and disrupted work at a few unspecified office locations.
Reuters video showed protests Tuesday outside of Google's Sunnyvale, California and New York City offices.
Those who protested say that Project Nimbus, a $1.2 billion contract awarded to Google and Amazon in 2021 to supply the Israeli government with cloud services, supports the development of military tools by the Israeli government.
The company in a statement said: "Physically impeding other employees' work and preventing them from accessing our facilities is a clear violation of our policies, and completely unacceptable behavior."
In a statement on Medium, Google workers affiliated with the No Tech for Apartheid campaign called it a "flagrant act of retaliation" and said that some employees who did not directly participate in Tuesday's protests were also among those fired.
The group posted a video to social media that appeared to show police entering a room and removing peaceful protesters, with one officer knocking over the camera being used to record the scene.
In its statement, Google maintained that the Nimbus contract "is not directed at highly sensitive, classified, or military workloads relevant to weapons or intelligence services."
