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control transmission, protect healthcare systems, and reduce deaths,” she said. “Equally concerning are funding cuts to vaccine research and development. Pandemic preparedness depends on investing in vaccines before a crisis occurs, not after,” she added
researchers said spyware from the Israeli company NSO Group was detected on the cellphones of six Palestinian human rights activists [Nasser Nasser/AP] ## The first cracks appear Raji Sourani, director of the Palestinian Centre for Human
consequences. “Two things are needed – legal protection and political will,” she said. “Right now, there seems to be a belief that political will alone is enough, even if legal protections are weak. But that