A former Google employee has accused the company of helping Israeli forces use artificial intelligence in Gaza, filing a whistleblower complaint that adds to mounting pressure over the tech giant’s military contracts.

The complaint, submitted to the Securities and Exchange Commission, describes a support request sent from an Israeli Defense Forces email address to Google’s cloud division. The request came from someone working at CloudEx, a contractor linked to the Israeli military. Internal documents show the customer needed help fixing a bug in Google’s Gemini AI system that was being used to scan aerial footage. The software kept failing to spot drones, soldiers, and other objects in images.

Google’s support team responded with troubleshooting suggestions and ran internal tests. The matter was addressed in due course. A second Google employee who worked on the IDF’s cloud account was copied on the exchange, according to the filing. The whistleblower claims the footage related to Israeli operations in Gaza during the current war, though the complaint offers no direct proof of this.

Google rejected the allegations. A company spokesperson told The Washington Post that the interaction broke no ethical rules because the account spent less than a few hundred dollars monthly on AI products. This made any serious use of AI impossible, the spokesperson said. Support staff simply answered a routine question with standard help desk information and gave no further technical help, Google added.

The former employee, speaking anonymously for fear of retaliation, accused Google of using a double standard for Israel and Gaza. Internal AI ethics reviews are normally strict, they said, but when it came to Israel and Gaza, the opposite was true. The complaint suggests Google may have misled regulators and investors by contradicting its own publicly filed policies. Anyone can file an SEC complaint, and doing so does not automatically trigger an investigation.

The filing arrives as Google faces growing scrutiny over Project Nimbus, its $1.2 billion cloud computing deal with the Israeli government. In February 2025, Google changed its AI principles by removing earlier pledges not to build AI for weapons or surveillance that broke........

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