.THE LAWS of battle offer special security to health centers. They shed that protection if they are actually used for “damaging” shows. Israel has long professed that al-Shifa health center, the largest in the Gaza Strip, serves as a crucial command facility for Hamas, the team which eliminated or took hostage around 1,400 people in Israel on October 7th.
In the very early hrs of Nov 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 health center.