{"id":392134,"date":"2023-11-19T17:47:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-19T17:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/blog\/2023\/11\/19\/55-metre-fortified-tunnel-found-under-gazas-biggest-hospital-israel\/"},"modified":"2023-11-19T17:47:00","modified_gmt":"2023-11-19T17:47:00","slug":"55-metre-fortified-tunnel-found-under-gazas-biggest-hospital-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/blog\/2023\/11\/19\/55-metre-fortified-tunnel-found-under-gazas-biggest-hospital-israel\/","title":{"rendered":"55-Metre Fortified Tunnel Found Under Gaza’s Biggest Hospital: Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Israeli military said its engineers had uncovered a tunnel 10 metres deep<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Israel published video on Sunday of what it described as a tunnel dug by Palestinian operatives under the Gaza Strip’s biggest hospital, a focus of its search-and-destroy missions against Hamas in a war now in its seventh week.<\/p>\n

While acknowledging that it has a network of hundreds of kilometres of secret tunnels, bunkers and access shafts throughout the Palestinian enclave, Hamas has denied that these are located in civilian infrastructure like hospitals.<\/p>\n

In an update on operations in Gaza City’s Al Shifa Hospital, the Israeli military said its engineers had uncovered a tunnel 10 metres deep and running 55 metres to a blast-proof door.<\/p>\n

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OPERATIONAL UPDATE: IDF and ISA forces revealed a significant 55-meter-long terrorist tunnel, 10 meters underneath the Shifa Hospital complex during an intelligence-based operation.<\/p>\n

The tunnel entrance contains various defense mechanisms, such as a blast-proof door and a firing\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/tU4J6BD4ZG<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) November 19, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

“This type of door is used by the Hamas terrorist organisation to block Israeli forces from entering the command centres and the underground assets belonging to Hamas,” said a military statement accompanied by video showing a narrow passage with arched concrete roofing, ending at a grey door.<\/p>\n

The statement did not say what was beyond the door. The tunnel had been accessed through a shaft discovered in a shed within the Shifa compound that contained munitions, it said.<\/p>\n

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