UPDATED 25 AUGUST 2026 — This petition remains open. Since it was first published, the UN Commission of Inquiry has issued its findings, Microsoft has made a public admission about where its services were consumed, and we have completed a full jurisdictional analysis for four European countries. The legal analysis supporting this petition is now set out in a separate memorandum. Where that memorandum and this page differ on any point of law, the memorandum governs. To request a copy, use the contact form at NoEthicsInBigTech.com.

We, the undersigned citizens of the world, urgently call upon the Spanish judicial system to uphold international law by launching an immediate investigation into five American technology companies — Amazon, Oracle, Palantir, Microsoft, and Google — and their senior executives, for their material and knowing support for, and complicity in, genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity perpetrated by the Israeli military in Gaza and the West Bank.

These corporations are not neutral bystanders. They supply the technological backbone that enables the violence and destruction we are witnessing.

Why Spain Has the Legal Authority and Duty to Act

Spain has a proud history of defending universal justice, exemplified by the prosecution of former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet. But the strongest route available today is not the one most people expect, and we want to be precise about it.

Territorial jurisdiction. Article 23.1 of the Ley Orgánica del Poder Judicial gives Spanish courts jurisdiction over offences committed on Spanish territory. Under the principle of ubiquity, adopted by the Criminal Chamber of the Supreme Court on 3 February 2005, an offence is committed in every jurisdiction in which any element of it took place. That doctrine was developed for offences committed over the internet, where conduct and effect occur in different places. It applies directly to distributed cloud infrastructure.

What that means in practice. A Spanish investigating court has the power to determine what was contracted, engineered, supported, routed or replicated through Spain by the Spanish subsidiaries of these companies, and by whom. No journalist and no campaigner can answer those questions. A court with the power to compel the production of documents can.

The acción popular. Spain is the only country in Europe where an ordinary citizen can start a criminal case without having been personally harmed. Article 125 of the Constitution and Articles 101 and 270 of the Ley de Enjuiciamiento Criminal allow any Spanish citizen, whether or not injured by the offence, to bring a querella. If you are a Spanish citizen or a Spanish organisation willing to consider acting as acusador popular, that is the single most valuable form of support anyone could offer this effort.

Presence in Spain. All five companies maintain commercial operations, offices, clients and assets in Spain through registered Spanish subsidiaries. That presence is what makes the territorial question a real one rather than an abstract one.

What Is Being Asked For, and In What Order

The first and most urgent request is not a prosecution. It is an order preserving evidence.

The records that would establish what these companies knew, and when — access logs, subscription records, contract documentation, internal escalation correspondence — are deletable, and reporting indicates a substantial volume of the underlying data was moved out of European servers within days of the first public reporting in August 2025. Every month without a preservation order is a month in which the record can lawfully disappear under ordinary retention policies. Nobody outside a prosecutor's office can stop that. A court can.

The Findings of the United Nations

On 16 September 2025, the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory concluded that Israeli authorities and Israeli security forces committed four of the five genocidal acts defined by the 1948 Genocide Convention: killing, causing serious bodily or mental harm, deliberately inflicting conditions of life calculated to bring about destruction, and imposing measures intended to prevent births. The Commission found that explicit statements by Israeli civilian and military authorities, together with the pattern of conduct of Israeli forces, indicate those acts were committed with intent to destroy Palestinians in Gaza as a group.

The Commission is chaired by Navi Pillay, former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and former President of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. Its report was described as the most authoritative UN finding to date. Israel rejected the findings.

Separately, in January 2024, the International Court of Justice found that Palestinians have a plausible right to be protected from genocide, that there was a risk of irreparable harm to that right, and ordered provisional measures. In July 2024 the Court issued an advisory opinion on the legal consequences of Israel's policies and practices in the occupied Palestinian territory. In November 2024 the International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for Israel's Prime Minister and former Defence Minister for war crimes and crimes against humanity.

The Human Toll

As of 5 August 2026, the Palestinian Ministry of Health reported 73,381 people killed and 174,231 injured in the Gaza Strip since 7 October 2023, including 1,254 people killed since the ceasefire took effect on 10 October 2025. An unknown number of victims remain beneath rubble or in areas emergency responders have been unable to reach.

UNICEF reported that at least 21,289 of those killed were children, and at least 44,500 of the injured were children, as of 3 February 2026.

These figures are a floor, not a ceiling. A population-representative household survey published in The Lancet Global Health estimated 75,200 violent deaths for the period 7 October 2023 to 5 January 2025 alone — approximately 34.7 per cent above the Ministry's administrative count for the same period. The true toll is higher than the official record, not lower.

The UN Satellite Centre found that as of 11 October 2025, approximately 81 per cent of all structures in the Gaza Strip were damaged, including 123,464 destroyed outright, with an estimated 320,622 housing units damaged.

The Role of Technology Companies

These companies are not passive vendors. They supply infrastructure without which operations at this scale and speed would not be possible.

Microsoft. On 6 August 2025, The Guardian, +972 Magazine and Local Call published a joint investigation, based on leaked internal documents and eleven sources, reporting that an Israeli military intelligence unit had used a customised Microsoft Azure environment to store intercepted recordings of Palestinian telephone calls, and that sources within that unit said the system had been used to help guide airstrikes in Gaza. On 25 September 2025, Microsoft published a statement on its own corporate blog confirming that its review had found evidence supporting elements of that reporting, including evidence relating to Israeli Ministry of Defence consumption of Azure storage capacity and the use of AI services, and stating that it had decided to cease and disable specified subscriptions and services. Microsoft has also stated that it was not aware of surveillance of civilians using its services. That is precisely the question an investigation with the power to compel documents exists to resolve.

Amazon and Google. Both are reported to provide cloud computing and AI infrastructure to the Israeli government under Project Nimbus, a contract reported at approximately $1.2 billion.

Palantir. The company is reported to provide data fusion and analytics platforms to the Israeli Ministry of Defense.

Oracle. The company is reported to provide database and cloud infrastructure used in the region.

The extent of each company's knowledge of how its products were used, and the terms on which they were supplied, are questions of fact. They cannot be settled by journalism, by campaigning, or by corporate statements. They can be settled by an investigation with subpoena power. That is what this petition asks for.

On Behalf of the Victims

This petition is brought in solidarity with families who have lost everything and who cannot bring their case before a Spanish court alone.

ParentsPlea.com is a casualty documentation resource compiled from Palestinian Ministry of Health data together with independent research by our own team. It is a research record, not a register of testimony submitted by individual families, and we will not describe it as one. It exists to hold the names behind the numbers.

We stand with the parents who have lost their children, the children who have been orphaned, the aid workers killed while delivering food, and the journalists killed while telling the truth.

This Is One of Four

Spain is one of four European jurisdictions we have analysed in full. The others are the Netherlands, France and Ireland. Each requires a different legal instrument and a different argument, and each has its own memorandum. Lawyers, journalists, policymakers and members of the public can request any of them, free and without conditions, through the contact form at NoEthicsInBigTech.com.

The time for accountability is now. We cannot allow corporate power and technological abstraction to create a veil of impunity. We call on Spain to investigate.