.THE regulations of war provide unique protection to medical centers. They shed that security if they are made use of for “damaging” acts. Israel has long professed that al-Shifa hospital, the largest in the Gaza Bit, works as a key order center for Hamas, the team which killed or took hostage around 1,400 folks in Israel on Oct 7th.
In the early hours of November 15th, after a tense six-day stand-off, members of Shaldag, an elite Israeli air-force task force unit, went into one wing of the medical facility.