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Hospital strikes would impose immediate political costs

Taiwan's concentrated hospital system reduces the number of sites, but damage to any hospital would still become a powerful symbol against the attacker.

Notes

The hospital comparison contrasts Taiwan's European and American model with the many small facilities described in Gaza. One suggested reason for the latter pattern is that donors favor funding individual hospitals, including specialist facilities. A large number of separate hospitals need not provide enough beds for the population. The prediction is that Taiwan's layout would expose fewer individual hospital sites to accidental strikes. Damage to a hospital would still carry political costs, compared with the historical stigma of destroying churches.