.THE rules of war give unique security to hospitals. They lose that security if they are used for "harmful" acts. Israel has long professed that al-Shifa health center, the biggest in the Gaza Strip, functions as a key command center for Hamas, the team which eliminated or even took hostage around 1,400 people in Israel on October 7th. In the very early hrs of Nov 15th, after a stressful six-day stand-off, participants of Shaldag, a best Israeli air-force commando device, entered into one wing of the healthcare facility.