GAZA CITY(VINnews) — The Israel Defense Forces said Saturday that troops uncovered a Hamas tunnel running beneath a hospital in Gaza City and another tunnel entrance adjacent to a separate medical center.
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According to the IDF, the first tunnel was found next to the Jordanian Hospital in southern Gaza City. Forces from the 36th Division, including the elite Yahalom combat engineering unit, discovered the entrance at a Hamas compound adjacent to the hospital.
The military said the tunnel stretches about one and a half kilometers and contains a weapons manufacturing workshop and several rooms. Intelligence gathered by the IDF indicated that Hamas company and platoon commanders had resided in the tunnel.
The army emphasized that Hamas’s activity near the Jordanian Hospital was “carried out without the involvement or knowledge of the Jordanians.”
A second tunnel was located at the Hamad Hospital near the Mediterranean coast in northwest Gaza City. According to the IDF, that tunnel runs directly underneath the medical center.
“The Hamas terror organization systematically operates in hospital areas, exploiting humanitarian facilities for military purposes,” the IDF said in a statement. “For years, the organization has built an underground system beneath hospitals throughout the Strip, used for weapon production and managing combat operations.”
Troops are currently mapping the tunnels ahead of their demolition and “expanding operations to additional sites where there are indications of terror activity,” the military added.
wow shocking news, breaking news. but weak bibi melikowsky refuses to bomb these terror buildings
“The Hamas terror organization systematically operates in hospital areas…” … In a way this makes it easier for IDF to find tunnels. Just look around near hospitals schools and mosques. A tunnel is more likely to be there than anywhere else.