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IDF releases video showing tunnel they claim ‘used by Hamas’ beneath Gaza’s al Shifa hospital | World News<\/p>\n
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Israel’s military has released a video of what it claims is a 55-metre tunnel used by Hamas beneath Gaza’s largest hospital. <\/p>\n
The footage, published on social media, is “more proof” that Hamas is using patients as “human shields”, the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) claim.<\/p>\n
The video, at al Shifa, begins with images of what is described as an “operational tunnel shaft”, which looks like a circular hole in the ground.<\/p>\n
The shaft is said to drop 10 metres, containing a three-metre ladder and a spiral staircase for the other seven metres, the IDF said.<\/p>\n
At the bottom is a tunnel in two sections of five metres and 50 metres, the IDF added.<\/p>\n
“The tunnel entrance contains various defence mechanisms, such as a blast-proof door and a firing hole, in an attempt by Hamas to block Israeli forces from entering,” the IDF said on X, formerly known as Twitter.<\/p>\n
“For weeks we’ve been telling the world about Hamas’s cynical use of the residents of the Gaza and patients of Shifa Hospital as human shields. Here is more proof.”<\/p>\n
The video was filmed on Friday 17 November according to a date stamp on the footage.<\/p>\n
The IDF has said Hamas has a command centre beneath the hospital – a claim denied by Hamas and by hospital staff.<\/p>\n
Earlier, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said al Shifa hospital – once the largest, most advanced and best-equipped hospital in Gaza<\/strong> – had essentially stopped functioning as a medical facility.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n \u0627\u0644\u0645\u0635\u062f\u0631<\/a>
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