The intense battles around Shifa and other hospitals in the rubble-filled streets of Gaza City raised an urgent question: When do medical facilities lose special protection under international humanitarian law?
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The intense battles around Shifa and other hospitals in the rubble-filled streets of Gaza City raised an urgent question: When do medical facilities lose special protection under international humanitarian law?
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International humanitarian law lends hospitals special protections during war. But hospitals can lose their protections if combatants use them to hide fighters or store weapons.