.THE rules of battle provide exclusive defense to medical centers. They shed that protection if they are actually utilized for "dangerous" acts. Israel has actually long professed that al-Shifa health center, the largest in the Gaza Strip, acts as a vital demand center for Hamas, the group which killed or hijacked around 1,400 individuals in Israel on Oct 7th. In the early hours of Nov 15th, after a stressful six-day stand-off, participants of Shaldag, an elite Israeli air-force task force unit, got in one part of the health center.