.THE LAWS of war provide unique protection to healthcare facilities. They shed that security if they are actually made use of for "unsafe" acts. Israel has long asserted that al-Shifa healthcare facility, the largest in the Gaza Strip, functions as a key command center for Hamas, the team which eliminated or even took hostage around 1,400 folks in Israel on October 7th. In the very early hrs of November 15th, after a stressful six-day stand-off, members of Shaldag, an elite Israeli air-force task force device, went into one segment of the medical center.