track people with the coronavirus using their mobile phone data montes middle east correspondent paula slayer explains. israel is fighting coronavirus with a little digital help the government has approved a new emergency measure after checking the mobile phones in order to contain the spread of the virus israel is a democracy and we must maintain the balance between civil rights and the public's needs these tools will very much assist us in the case in the sick in stopping the virus from spreading the idea is to use the chair location from people's cell phones to track who's been in contact with known high risk areas and to send them text messages to alert them to the problem and to get them also to self isolate yes it is a measure that will parties normally use for tracking extremists and terrorists it wasn't so long ago that people were asking the same question should we hand over our privacy for a great to good civil rights activists in israel warning it is a slippery slope it's a dangerous precedent and the slippery slope that must be approached unresolved of the much debate and not afte

equipped to cope after years of living under the israeli blockade auntie's middle east correspondent paula slayer explains. i'm standing at the checkpoint between jerusalem and the occupied west bank city of bethlehem every day until recently thousands of crowds would queue here the large crowds the poor ventilation was the perfect opportunity for the coronavirus to sprayed the israeli army is now closing or checkpoints and at the same time it's tossed the police with trying to stop the spread of the virus however in the case of gaza people they will find themselves trapped in a dainty populated strip with a fragile health care system which according to the united nations has been crumbling away before the pandemic. in the gaza and the west bank are fragile areas due to the continue siege there has been deteriorating all our medical capabilities for the 14th year in a row it's meant the gaza strip has lost all its basic facilities which provide health and human interim care and that's the condition and which today we're facing this virus won't be able to fight this problem if we don't receive sig

look government then and how successful it may or may not be with his middle east correspondent paula slayer. what does this mean for benjamin netanyahu. well it's actually not good news i mean he's going to be hoping that there's going to be a 4th round of election he's also very surprised because he was the one who actually won these elections and. particularly from his voting bloc was that he would be the one to form the next coalition government what are the chances that guns can become the next pm look at this stage they seem quite small he's facing 2 main problems the 1st problem is that he's formed a coalition between our parties and a right wing political party belonging to a former army defense minister avigdor lieberman they are not natural allies so you will just have one issue that will erupt in the 2 sides will fall apart guns also faces threats from 2 members of his own party who say that because he's formed this coalition they are going to withdraw and if they withdraw he won't have the 61 majority that he needs at this stage however the country's president we've been living i

report that describes that as arab residents or non israeli citizens a middle east correspondent paula slayer has been gauging reaction in the city. what's in a name a lot if you live in east jerusalem and a palestinian but washington has decided to simply ditch the palestinian identity of those who live here in east jerusalem the state department now considers them arab residents or non israeli citizens the move has infuriated many with palestinian leaders saying it's an attempt to wipe out their national identity it's just playing with fire and may not as he stands means nothing to us and by the way i'm ready to resent us from that means nothing to us we out of the old regime the people of the palestinians when i say i'm pretty soon in some places they don't like they don't they want us to say we are israelis and if i am palestinian who is trying to say anything this is our land our country our state the state of palestine by mother leave this nationality were freedom fighters there. give rights to decide our life and he says it's hot air this land is for the arabs it's our land we were bor