.THE rules of battle give special protection to medical centers. They shed that defense if they are utilized for "harmful" acts. Israel has actually long declared that al-Shifa hospital, the biggest in the Gaza Strip, acts as a vital command center for Hamas, the group which got rid of or even took hostage around 1,400 folks in Israel on October 7th. In the early hours of November 15th, after a strained six-day stand-off, participants of Shaldag, a best Israeli air-force commando device, got into one wing of the healthcare facility.