.THE legislations of battle give special protection to healthcare facilities. They lose that defense if they are actually used for "damaging" shows. Israel has long declared that al-Shifa healthcare facility, the biggest in the Gaza Strip, serves as a vital order centre for Hamas, the team which eliminated or hijacked around 1,400 folks in Israel on Oct 7th. In the early hours of Nov 15th, after a tense six-day stand-off, participants of Shaldag, an elite Israeli air-force commando device, got in one segment of the health center.