.THE LAWS of war provide special defense to medical centers. They lose that defense if they are actually used for “unsafe” acts. Israel has long asserted that al-Shifa hospital, the largest in the Gaza Bit, serves as a crucial order facility for Hamas, the group which got rid of or took hostage around 1,400 individuals 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 system, went into one segment of the medical center.