.THE LAWS of battle offer exclusive defense to hospitals. They lose that defense if they are actually made use of for “dangerous” acts. Israel has long asserted that al-Shifa healthcare facility, the biggest in the Gaza Strip, functions as a crucial command centre for Hamas, the group which got rid of or even hijacked around 1,400 folks in Israel on Oct 7th.
In the early hrs of Nov 15th, after a stressful six-day stand-off, participants of Shaldag, a best Israeli air-force commando system, got into one wing of the health center.