Hyderabad, June 18 -- Maryam Shalaby, an Egyptian software engineer based in Cairo, has resigned from US technology giant Microsoft, accusing the company of complicity in what she described as "Israel's genocide in the Gaza Strip".

She is the latest in a growing number of Microsoft employees to resign in protest over the company's ties to the Israeli government. Others who have stepped down in recent months include Ibtihal Aboussad, Vaniya Agrawal, and an employee publicly known as Joe.

In a company-wide email sent on Monday, June 16, Shalaby announced her resignation, stating that she could no longer remain at a firm which, in her view, enables military operations responsible for large-scale civilian suffering.

"Microsoft was a dream ...