.THE rules of battle offer special security to medical centers. They drop that security if they are actually used for "unsafe" shows. Israel has long declared that al-Shifa medical facility, the largest in the Gaza Strip, functions as a vital order centre for Hamas, the group which killed or even took hostage around 1,400 folks in Israel on Oct 7th. In the early hours of November 15th, after a strained six-day stand-off, members of Shaldag, an elite Israeli air-force task force device, entered into one part of the healthcare facility.