.THE regulations of battle give exclusive defense to medical centers. They lose that protection if they are actually used for “dangerous” acts. Israel has actually long claimed that al-Shifa health center, the largest in the Gaza Bit, functions as a vital command centre for Hamas, the team which killed or even took hostage around 1,400 people in Israel on October 7th.
In the very early hours of November 15th, after a tense six-day stand-off, members of Shaldag, an elite Israeli air-force task force device, got into one wing of the healthcare facility.