prime ministers. Increasingly, his political allies to join the fight.

received state funding.

"evious attempts to enshrine the
in law have been disqualified Gaza's health system
preme Court on the grounds that
the principle of equality. When A horrifying
"ahu returned to office at the end
he price the ultra-Orthodox par
nded for joining his govermment
collapse
assing a law that would be peti
So far he has managed to put it
The destruction of Gaza's health
no law is proposed soon, the
system goes far beyond its hospitals
probably force the government's
e very idea of military police ,HE INJURED lie over hospital floors,
ging religious students could blood bubbling from untreated
di parties to abandon the prime wounds. Doctors perform amputations
ringing down his coalition. without anaesthetic.
For want of gauze,
il tensions have often flared over they rip up their gowns. After surgery,
iption exemption. But the war in there is no water to wash the blood from
ch has seen the largest call-up of their hands. Without sterilised equip
in over 40 years, has stoked an ment, hospitals spread disease rather than
it. A large majority of lsraelis say treat it. Many doctors who have worked in
support the war, but in a recent other war zones say that conditions in Ga
Iso said they oppOsed the law ex za are the worst they have seen. "Hospitals,
pnscription and reserve service, intended to be safe havens...have frequent
cause they feel the inequality is ly turned into death traps," says a report re
iblicly, Mr Netanyahu has sug leased in February by Physicians for Hu
at the Haredim already make up man Rights (PHRI), an Israeli watchdog.
ack of military service by volun On February 18th the World Health Or
ut few are convinced. Members ganisation (WHO) said the Nasser hospital »
me minister's Likud party in the
ave already warned himn that they
te for either law. The opposition,
Mediteranean Sea Gaza city
gone easy on the government of
A-ShifaA
se of the war, sees this as an ideal
which to attack the coalition,
Gaza Strip
been plummeting in the polls.
ite the 1 DF'S top brass admit they
use for the tens of thousands of
Idox young men from highly
A-Mawasi
"safe area'
Nasser
% ISRAEL
1 communities who study only
Bxts from the age of 13. But they
Younis
rned that their continued exemp
have an impact on the Israelis
EGYPTo3
alled upon to serve. "We need to
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