.THE rules of war offer special protection to hospitals. They shed that security if they are actually used for "unsafe" acts. Israel has long declared that al-Shifa medical facility, the biggest in the Gaza Bit, acts as an essential demand center for Hamas, the team which got rid of or hijacked around 1,400 folks in Israel on October 7th. In the very early hours of Nov 15th, after a tense six-day stand-off, participants of Shaldag, a best Israeli air-force commando device, got into one wing of the hospital.