.THE rules of battle offer exclusive protection to hospitals. They drop that protection if they are used for “unsafe” shows. Israel has actually long asserted that al-Shifa healthcare facility, the most extensive in the Gaza Bit, works as a key demand facility for Hamas, the team which eliminated or hijacked around 1,400 people in Israel on October 7th.
In the early hours of Nov 15th, after a stressful six-day stand-off, participants of Shaldag, an elite Israeli air-force commando system, got into one wing of the medical facility.