.THE LAWS of war give special security to medical facilities. They shed that security if they are actually utilized for “harmful” acts. Israel has long claimed that al-Shifa medical facility, the most extensive in the Gaza Strip, serves as a key order centre for Hamas, the group which got rid of or took hostage around 1,400 people in Israel on October 7th.
In the very early hours of Nov 15th, after a stressful six-day stand-off, participants of Shaldag, a best Israeli air-force commando system, got in one part of the medical center.