A human rights group called on Israel’s defense minister to alter what it termed the Israeli government’s discriminatory policy in distribution of gas mask kits. The appeal from Physicians for Human Rights followed the disclosure on an Israeli television program that Israel has been giving foreign workers gas mask kits older than those provided to Israelis, the Israeli daily Ha’aretz reported.
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