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This video from the Israeli Defense Forces claims to show Hamas built tunnels below the Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza. Israeli troops claimed they had dismantled the tunnels without damaging the hospital complex.
The Al-Shifa hospital is Gaza’s largest medical facility - but Israeli and U.S. intelligence sources have stated it was also used by Hamas as a base of operations.
In a statement, the IDF said: “On November 24, 2023, the Hamas terror tunnel route excavated under the Shifa Hospital and exposed by the IDF was dismantled by the soldiers of the Yahalom Unit together with special forces. During the activity to dismantle these expansive underground tunnels, the hospital building above ground was not damaged and humanitarian activities in the hospital were able to continue.
“This tunnel route under Shifa Hospital spanned over 250 meters, led to a number of significant terrorist centers and was used for carrying out terrorist operations. Hamas deliberately developed its underground terror tunnel infrastructure beneath the hospital and connected it to nearby tunnel shafts in order to conduct its activities freely and in disguise underground.


“The Hamas terrorist organization systematically operates in the hospitals in the Gaza Strip and in the areas adjacent to them, using the residents as human shields and exploiting the hospital's infrastructure, including electricity and water.”
Israeli forces have been operating in Gaza in the aftermath of Hamas 7 October 2023 attack on Israel. The militant Islamist group took killed an estimated 1,200 people and took an estimated 240 hostages in the attack. Figures published by the Hamas-run Gaza health ministry state that more than 22,000 Gazans have been killed during the conflict to date.