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Workers protest against NHS contract with firm linked to Israeli military

Source: PA Wire

Healthcare workers have blockaded the entrance to NHS England’s headquarters to call for an end to its contract with a firm which campaigners say supplies technology to Israel’s military.

Palantir is an American software company that was awarded a £330 million contract by the NHS last year to create a new data system, the federated

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