UK: Amnesty backs MPs' call to terminate NHS England's contract with Palantir – and demands Government must act now

In response to the cross-party House of Commons Science, Innovation and Technology Committee concluding the government should terminate NHS England's contract with Palantir, citing the company "supporting highly controversial policies and activities", Kristyan Benedict, Amnesty International UK's Crisis Response Manager, said:

“Palantir has been supplying software to the Israeli military and intelligence services that contribute to Israel’s ongoing genocide, apartheid, and illegal occupation in Gaza.

"A company profiting from such grave human rights abuses should have no role in our health system or wider public sector.

“Israeli forces have killed over 70,000 Palestinians, including doctors and other medics, and systematically destroyed Gaza's health system. Why on earth should the NHS - which exists to protect life - be using software from a company that is contributing to a genocide?

“The Science, Innovation and Technology Committee is absolutely right to call for Palantir’s contract with the NHS to be terminated. The Government must act now – terminating its contracts with Palantir and removing the company from every corner of public life – including from our NHS, the Ministry of Defence, and British policing.”