.THE rules of battle give exclusive security to medical facilities. They shed that protection if they are actually made use of for “damaging” shows. Israel has long professed that al-Shifa medical facility, the biggest in the Gaza Bit, serves as a crucial demand centre for Hamas, the group which killed or even hijacked around 1,400 people in Israel on October 7th.
In the very early hours of November 15th, after a stressful six-day stand-off, members of Shaldag, an elite Israeli air-force commando system, went into one segment of the health center.