The real solution here is to use Signal (or something like it).
And I don't mean to criticize Microsoft or regulations. Microsoft is faced with an impossible task here, I assume they're doing the best they can.
That sounds an awful lot like simply being a Palestinian is being criminalized.
The article discusses that they are unable to contact their family over the internet because Israel is shutting off internet. So they were using Skypes Skype to Phone service to call their family's mobile phones over normal cell service in Gaza.
I think you mean “they’re doing the absolute minimum to barely meet their compliance requirements”
I shall have to add this to the list of counterexamples wherever anyone says "America has an inalienable right to free speech".
To be able to come up with a solution you’d first need to be aware of a problem, which in many such cases you wouldn’t be, until one day you are banned and lose all your accounts, and solutions in hindsight won’t help with that.