The Israeli navy mentioned its engineers had uncovered a tunnel 10 metres deep
JERUSALEM:
Israel printed video on Sunday of what it described as a tunnel dug by Palestinian operatives underneath the Gaza Strip’s largest hospital, a spotlight of its search-and-destroy missions in opposition to Hamas in a conflict now in its seventh week.
Whereas acknowledging that it has a community of lots of of kilometres of secret tunnels, bunkers and entry shafts all through the Palestinian enclave, Hamas has denied that these are positioned in civilian infrastructure like hospitals.
In an replace on operations in Gaza Metropolis’s Al Shifa Hospital, the Israeli navy mentioned its engineers had uncovered a tunnel 10 metres deep and operating 55 metres to a blast-proof door.
OPERATIONAL UPDATE: IDF and ISA forces revealed a big 55-meter-long terrorist tunnel, 10 meters beneath the Shifa Hospital complicated throughout an intelligence-based operation.
The tunnel entrance comprises varied protection mechanisms, equivalent to a blast-proof door and a firing… pic.twitter.com/tU4J6BD4ZG
— Israel Protection Forces (@IDF) November 19, 2023
“One of these door is utilized by the Hamas terrorist organisation to dam Israeli forces from getting into the command centres and the underground belongings belonging to Hamas,” mentioned a navy assertion accompanied by video exhibiting a slender passage with arched concrete roofing, ending at a gray door.
The assertion didn’t say what was past the door. The tunnel had been accessed by way of a shaft found in a shed inside the Shifa compound that contained munitions, it mentioned.
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