The blackened, pockmarked and shredded walls of Al-Shifa Hospital are a haunting testimony to what has been 12 months of agonising Israeli attacks on all aspects of Gaza’s health sector. In April, UN officials, Palestinian civil defence and medical workers in Gaza City stood atop of mounds of sand and rubble to inspect what remained of the territory’s largest and most sophisticated medical complex. The teams found burnt hospital beds, limbs poking out of sand, heard the alarming testimonies of doctors who were detained, and patients dying during Israel’s two-week siege on the hospital in March…