Google has announced the termination of 28 employees involved in protests against the tech company's cloud computing contract with the Israeli government, according to company data and activists.

Employees staged a sit-in at the company's offices in California and New York in protest of a $1.2 billion contract that Google entered into to provide customized tools for the Israeli military, and they were fired on Wednesday evening after police arrested nine people earlier.

Google stated, "A small number of our employees entered our offices to protest and disrupted a few of our locations."

After multiple requests to leave the building were declined, law enforcement worked to remove them to ensure the safety of the offices.

The company said it conducted "individual investigations that resulted in the termination of 28 employees, and will continue to investigate and take action as necessary."

In contrast, the group "No Tech for Apartheid," which organized the protests, questioned whether all the employees that Google fired had participated in the sit-ins this week.

The group stated in a release published on Thursday: "This blatant act of retaliation shows that Google values its $1.2 billion contract with the Israeli government and military, which are committing genocide, more than its employees who create real value for executives and shareholders."

Several Google employees were arrested on Tuesday evening from its offices in New York and Sunnyvale after organizing sit-ins to protest its collaboration with the Israeli government.

Protest spokesperson Jane Chang confirmed that 9 employees were arrested from the New York and Sunnyvale offices.

A Google spokesperson told the Washington Post on Tuesday that "physically obstructing other employees' work and preventing them from accessing our facilities is a clear violation of our policies, and we will investigate and take the necessary steps."

He added that the protesting employees "are on administrative leave, and their access to our systems has been cut off. After they declined multiple requests to leave the building, we engaged law enforcement to escort them outside, in order to ensure the safety of the office."

The protesting employees had insisted on not leaving until the company responded to their request to withdraw from the $1.2 billion "Nimbus" project, which it shares with Amazon to provide cloud services and data centers for the Israeli government.