.THE LAWS of war give special protection to medical facilities. They drop that protection if they are actually utilized for “damaging” shows. Israel has long claimed that al-Shifa medical facility, the largest in the Gaza Strip, serves as an essential command center for Hamas, the group which got rid of or hijacked around 1,400 individuals in Israel on October 7th.
In the very early hrs of November 15th, after a tense six-day stand-off, members of Shaldag, an elite Israeli air-force commando device, entered one segment of the health center.