.THE rules of war offer unique protection to hospitals. They drop that protection if they are made use of for “damaging” shows. Israel has long stated that al-Shifa hospital, the largest in the Gaza Bit, works as a vital order center for Hamas, the group which got rid of or took hostage around 1,400 individuals in Israel on October 7th.
In the early hours of Nov 15th, after a strained six-day stand-off, members of Shaldag, an elite Israeli air-force commando device, entered into one wing of the medical facility.