.THE LAWS of battle give special security to medical centers. They lose that security if they are actually used for "harmful" acts. Israel has actually long declared that al-Shifa medical center, the biggest in the Gaza Strip, serves as a vital command facility for Hamas, the team which killed or took hostage around 1,400 individuals in Israel on October 7th. In the very early hrs of Nov 15th, after a tense six-day stand-off, members of Shaldag, an elite Israeli air-force task force system, entered into one part of the health center.