2023-11-19 19:29:16
He Israeli Army claimed this Sunday to have found a “fortified tunnel” under the Shifa hospital in Gaza City, where he alleges that the Islamist group Hamas has its main command center, and showed photos and videos of the discovery.
Israeli troops storm Al Shifa hospital in Gaza
“Based on intelligence information from the Israel Defense Forces and the Shin Bet (internal security agency), the soldiers exposed a terrorist tunnel 55 meters long and 10 meters deep below the Shifa hospital complex,” said a military statement.
Israeli forces they continue working to discover the full route of the tunnel, he added.
In the videos released by the Army, you can see a deep staircase leading to the entrance of the tunnel shaftwhich “consists of defense means such as” an explosion-proof door and a firing hole,” notes the Israeli Army.
“The terrorist organization Hamas uses this type of door to prevent Israeli forces from entering command centers and to underground assets belonging to Hamas,” he adds.
The military statement specifies that the tunnel shaft was discovered under a shed, “next to a vehicle that contained numerous weapons, including anti-tank launchers, explosives and Kalashnikov rifles.”
The Army also released aerial photographs of the Shifa hospital showing the “terrorist infrastructure found by Hamas,” including “explosives in the physiotherapy rooms, an interrogation room in the cardiology area, weapons and intelligence in the MRI center and a tunnel shaft that was located near the Qatari hospital building,” he explains.
“The results clearly demonstrate that Hamas uses numerous buildings in the hospital complex as coverage for infrastructure and terrorist activities. “This is further evidence of the cynical way in which Hamas uses the residents of the Gaza Strip as human shields for its murderous terrorist activities,” a military spokesman stressed.
Shifa Hospital, the most important medical center in the Gaza Strip, has been under siege by Israeli forces for several days, and last week, ground forces raided the facility.
Last Wednesday, the Israeli Army announced the discovery of Hamas weapons and combat equipment in the hospital Al Shifa, which was evacuated this Saturday after being completely cut off and after several days without electricity, drinking water, medicine, and in the midst of an imminent outbreak of infection due to housing some 170 corpses that could not be refrigerated.
Among the evacuees were thousands of displaced people and 31 premature babieswho this Sunday were able to reach a hospital in the south of the Strip, from where they will be transferred to Egypt on Monday to receive adequate care.
It is estimated that about 300 people remain inside the Shifa hospital, including critical patients and medical personnel.
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