.THE regulations of battle offer exclusive protection to healthcare facilities. They lose that security if they are actually utilized for "hazardous" acts. Israel has long professed that al-Shifa hospital, the most extensive in the Gaza Bit, works as a crucial order centre for Hamas, the group which killed or hijacked around 1,400 people in Israel on Oct 7th. In the very early hours of Nov 15th, after a stressful six-day stand-off, participants of Shaldag, a best Israeli air-force task force unit, went into one wing of the medical center.