New Delhi, Sept. 13 -- E-commerce giant Amazon has suspended a software engineer who spoke against the company's collaboration with the government of Israel.

Ahmed Shahrour, a Palestinian engineer based in Seattle working for Amazon's Whole Foods, was told on Monday morning that he had been suspended with pay "until further notice" after posting messages on Slack criticising the company's work with Israel, according to a report by CNBC.

"It has come to Amazon's attention that a post you made in multiple internal company Slack channels may violate multiple policies," the report quoted an Amazon human resources representative's message. The e-commerce major informed in a message that it's investigating the incident.

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