.THE LAWS of battle offer special security to medical facilities. They lose that defense if they are actually made use of for “unsafe” shows. Israel has actually long professed that al-Shifa healthcare facility, the biggest in the Gaza Strip, works as a key order center for Hamas, the group which killed or took hostage around 1,400 folks in Israel on October 7th.
In the early hours of Nov 15th, after a tense six-day stand-off, members of Shaldag, an elite Israeli air-force task force unit, entered into one segment of the medical facility.