.THE LAWS of battle give special protection to healthcare facilities. They lose that defense if they are actually made use of for “harmful” acts. Israel has actually long professed that al-Shifa medical center, the biggest in the Gaza Strip, functions as a key order center for Hamas, the group which got rid of or even hijacked around 1,400 folks in Israel on Oct 7th.
In the very early hours of Nov 15th, after a tense six-day stand-off, participants of Shaldag, a best Israeli air-force commando device, got into one wing of the hospital.