.THE rules of war give special protection to medical facilities. They drop that protection if they are actually made use of for “hazardous” acts. Israel has long professed that al-Shifa health center, the biggest in the Gaza Bit, acts as a crucial demand center for Hamas, the team which killed or hijacked around 1,400 individuals in Israel on Oct 7th.
In the early hrs of November 15th, after a stressful six-day stand-off, participants of Shaldag, an elite Israeli air-force task force system, went into one segment of the health center.