A few hours after his office was infiltrated and occupied by a group protesting Microsoft’s technology contracts with Israel, the company’s president, Brad Smith, stood beside his desk addressing a hastily called press conference Tuesday afternoon.

Microsoft Corp. President Brad Smith reiterated an earlier pledge to investigate reports that Israel used its technology to select bombing targets, but he decried the actions of protesters who occupied his office demanding that the company sever ties with the country.

Israel's military has concluded six Hamas members were killed in a strike on Nasser hospital in the south of the Gaza Strip on Monday, acting U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Dorothy Shea told the Security Council on Wednesday.

The Israeli military said Tuesday that its double strike on a Gaza hospital that killed 20 people targeted what it believed was a Hamas surveillance camera. But the first strike killed a cameraman from the Reuters news agency doing a live television shot,