Microsoft reportedly fired two software engineers Ibtihal Aboussad and Vaniya Agrawal on Monday as they protested the company's deal with the Israeli military during last week's Microsoft Copilot and 50th anniversary commemoration.

According to an internal message seen by CNBC, Microsoft wrote that Absad could have raised concerns “in privately with your manager or the Global Employee Relations Department.” But he chose to deliberately interrupt the speech of Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleiman.

“Earlier today, at the 50th anniversary celebration of Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleiman in Redmond, Seattle, you interrupted the CEO’s speech, yelled in front of thousands of live audiences, accused the CEO and made hostile, unreasonable and extremely inappropriate allegations against the CEO, the company and Microsoft,” reads in an email to Ibutihar Absad. "While the CEO remains calm and tries to ease the situation, your behavior is so radical that you have to be escorted out of the room by security guards. The company believes that your misconduct is to make a name for notoriety and to cause the greatest disruption to this highly anticipated event, it is equally worrying that you did not apologize to the company and in fact, you have shown no regrets about the impact your behavior has caused and will have caused."

Last Friday, during the event, Absad yelled Suleiman “with his hands covered in blood”, interrupting him for a keynote speech on the new AI product. Later that day, Agraval yelled in a panel discussion with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, former CEO Steve Ballmer and founder Bill Gates, “You all should be ashamed…severe ties with Israel.”

Shortly after the incident, Absad sent an email to Microsoft employees and executives claiming the company suppressed certain employees who had dissented, according to CNBC. The email reportedly contains links to a “Blue Against Apartheid” petition, which consists of a group of Microsoft employees who have made headlines in the past for protesting the company’s partnership with Israel.