.THE rules of war give exclusive defense to hospitals. They drop that security if they are actually utilized for “harmful” shows. Israel has long asserted that al-Shifa hospital, the biggest in the Gaza Strip, works as a vital command facility for Hamas, the team which killed or even hijacked around 1,400 individuals in Israel on Oct 7th.
In the early hours of November 15th, after a tense six-day stand-off, participants of Shaldag, an elite Israeli air-force task force unit, entered one part of the medical facility.