The Israeli navy mentioned its engineers had uncovered a tunnel 10 metres deep
JERUSALEM:
Israel revealed video on Sunday of what it described as a tunnel dug by Palestinian operatives below the Gaza Strip’s greatest hospital, a spotlight of its search-and-destroy missions in opposition to Hamas in a warfare now in its seventh week.
Whereas acknowledging that it has a community of a whole bunch of kilometres of secret tunnels, bunkers and entry shafts all through the Palestinian enclave, Hamas has denied that these are situated 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 working 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 advanced throughout an intelligence-based operation.
The tunnel entrance comprises numerous protection mechanisms, reminiscent of a blast-proof door and a firing… pic.twitter.com/tU4J6BD4ZG
— Israel Protection Forces (@IDF) November 19, 2023
“Such a door is utilized by the Hamas terrorist organisation to dam Israeli forces from coming into the command centres and the underground belongings belonging to Hamas,” mentioned a navy assertion accompanied by video displaying a slim 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 means of a shaft found in a shed throughout the Shifa compound that contained munitions, it mentioned.
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