Israel-Palestine
Israel releases footage of tunnels underneath Gaza’s largest hospital

Here are the facts:

• Israel’s IDF released footage on their X page of the tunnels which they say Hamas is using to carry out their militant operations

• Hamas and hospital staff has repeatedly denied that there is a command centre below Shifa hospital.

What Israel is saying

The IDF had released a similar video on Friday. However, at the time, only a gaping hole, which they said was the entrance to the extensive tunnels, could be seen.

A video released by the IDF on Sunday from inside the shaft showed what we could not see from the top of the opening. The video shows a spiral staircase leading down into a concrete tunnel. The IDF said the tunnel shaft extends downwards approximately 10 meters and the tunnel runs for 55 meters.

A tunnel is "not coherent with any form of normal hospital infrastructure", Sky News military analyst Sean Bell said, adding that it appeared to be evidence that Hamas had been operating underground.

“We need to demolish the underground facility that we found,” said IDF spokesperson Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari to the CNN

The footage released does not confirm the existence of a hamas command centre. However it does show the tunnel networks that Israel had claimed existed.

Israel is currently facing intense pressure from the international community to prove the existence of the Hamas command centre after the extensive bombing of Gaza’s largest hospital.

What Palestine is saying

Hamas and Hospital staff deny allegations that the Hospital is being used as a Hamas Headquarters.

Critics claim that these are tunnels built by Israel themselves during the construction of al-Shifa

“Back in 1983, when Israel still ruled Gaza, they built a secure underground operating room and tunnel network beneath al-Shifa hospital – which is one among several reasons why Israeli security sources are so sure that there is a main Hamas command bunker in or around the large cement basement beneath the area of Building 2 of the hospital,” Tablet added.

The Al-Shifa hospital complex was designed by Israeli architects, initially built as part of a project commissioned by the department of public works, before it’s expansion and renovation in the 1980s, according to the Israeli news website Ynet.

Israel claims it destroyed underground infrastructure in 2021

Israel bombed the area around al-Shifa during its assault on Gaza in May 2021 during the al-Wehda airstrikes. The bombing reduced on of the busiest streets in Gaza, which is the main access point to al-Shifa hospital, into rubble.

Israel claimed that it was attacking underground military infrastructure located under the road, which they say collapsed caused unintended casualties among civilians.

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