Israeli doctors say they will continue their general strike for another two days to protest against poor employment and working conditions.

The strike that began on Monday included postponing surgeries and closure of outpatient clinics on Wednesday and Thursday, Israeli newspaper Ha'aretz reported on Wednesday.
Only emergency and oncology operations will be performed, and day hospitalization units in the general, geriatric and psychiatric hospitals will be closed, according to the report.
On Tuesday, Israel's Medical Association (IMA) and Finance Ministry representatives reconvened to discuss the issue.
The talks were largely focused on adding more job slots for hospital physicians to reduce the number of residents' shifts.
Deputy Health Minister Yaakov Litzman announced that he wanted to cut the length of residents' shifts from 26 to 20 hours.
But the idea sparked a backlash from the IMA, which termed it “populist” and “dangerous,” saying that it would effectively ensure that residents were not at the hospitals in the morning, when most training takes place.
The IMA also plans to begin the next phase of its strike in July, including a severe reduction in the number of doctors at certain institutions. That is likely to cause hospitals to collapse from lack of manpower.
Senior health officials say they expect such a move to cause the gradual collapse of the public hospital system, to the point where some departments would have to be shut down or combined with others to cope with the staffing shortage.
(Source: Press TV)