Hyderabad, April 6 -- After interrupting Microsoft's 50th-anniversary event in protest of the company's AI involvement in the ongoing conflict between Israel and Gaza, software engineer Ibtihal Aboussad sent a mass email to employees across several teams, accusing the tech giant of complicity in war crimes and explaining her act of defiance.

Here is her full email:

Here is her full email accessed by Maktoob Media:

Hi all,

As you might have just seen on the livestream or witnessed in person, I disrupted the speech of Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman during the highly-anticipated 50th anniversary celebration. Here's why.

My name is Ibtihal, and for the past 3.5 years, I've been a software engineer on Microsoft's AI Platform org. I spo...