.THE LAWS of battle provide exclusive defense to medical facilities. They drop that protection if they are utilized for “unsafe” acts. Israel has long professed that al-Shifa hospital, the largest in the Gaza Strip, works as an essential order facility for Hamas, the team which got rid of or took hostage around 1,400 folks in Israel on Oct 7th.
In the early hours of Nov 15th, after a tense six-day stand-off, members of Shaldag, an elite Israeli air-force commando unit, got in one wing of the medical facility.