Videos: Inside The Hamas Shifa Hospital Underground Command Center
IDF: “Behind the hatch door that was breached, war rooms, an air-conditioned living room and hiding place, as well as toilets and a kitchen for extended stays were discovered.”
We previously reported on the terror tunnel under the Shifa medical center complex, which was 50 meters long ending at a blast door with firing hole, Shifa Hospital “Civilian” Charade Over: Videos Show Hostages and Long Tunnel With Blast Door:
Since then, Israel breached the blast door.
Exploring what was beyond the blast door obviously had to be done only after the underground complex was cleared of booby traps. Israel now is releasing video of what amounted to a command center with rooms and facilities. Evidence was found that hostages were kept in this underground command bunker.
Israel took journalists on tours of the newly exposed tunnel complex:
Behind the hatch door that was breached, war rooms, an air-conditioned living room and hiding place, as well as toilets and a kitchen for extended stays were discovered.
AFP was among about two dozen journalists who embedded with Israeli soldiers to see what it calls evidence of the tunnel network underneath Al-Shifa.
Our still, video images and soundbites were submitted to the Israeli military censor for approval.
Electric wiring was visible as reporters climbed down a narrow shaft, which led to a narrow tunnel only a few metres wide.
“It’s a very long tunnel,” Colonel Elad Tsury, commander of Israel’s Seventh Brigade, told reporters.
“The tunnel goes from the city to the hospital.”
The soldier led reporters through what looked like a kitchenette with a sink, a toilet and a room with two metal beds and a wall-mounted air conditioner.
“When they are trying to survive, they go down, use hospitals as a human shields and they can stay here for a long time.”
The Messenger reports:
The video footage published by the IDF was likely meant to refute skeptics who have questioned, since Israel took control of Shifa, whether the hospital was really sitting atop a Hamas command-and-control center as Israel and others have claimed.
But the images suggest that the labyrinthine tunnels were used not just for transporting materials or people, but as something of an extended-stay base. The Israel Defense Forces referred to it as “Hamas’ underground city.”
Via Imshin:
Joint statement to the IDF and Shin Bet spokesmen:
IDF reveals the continuation of the terror tunnel route, tens of meters of branching tunnel route, which also passes under the Qatari building in the hospital, combat rooms, hiding and residence of Hamas and two additional tunnel shafts that were uncovered near the hospital.
IDF continues to uncover the route of the terror tunnels mostly under the hospital buildings.
Behind the hatch door that was breached, war rooms, an air-conditioned living room and hiding place, as well as toilets and a kitchen for extended stays were discovered.
In addition, the forces located large amounts of weapons in the area of the hospital, as well as evidence that hostages had been held there.
The findings unequivocally prove the method of operation of the terrorist organization Hamas, which operates systematically from the hospitals. The terrorist organization Hamas builds underground complexes under the hospitals while exploiting the hospital infrastructure, and conducts fighting from them.
This video covers both the tunnel previously disclosed plus how it connects to other buildings:
These videos show the inside of the main tunnel leading beyond the blast door to other facilities:
A first look into Hamas’ underground city, underneath the Shifa Hospital complex: pic.twitter.com/O8gEQHAfJ6
— Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) November 22, 2023
BREAKING: First images from Hamas terror tunnel built right below Gaza's Al Shifa hospital. Items found from Kibbutz Be’eri, site of Oct. 7 massacre, and IDF-issued weapon & helmet, indicating Hamas held hostages there. @DrTedros, isn't this a war crime?
Report by @ItayBlumental pic.twitter.com/tmx2WsCsCJ
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) November 22, 2023
You asked for evidence Shifa was Hamas Terror HQ:@IDF soldiers are inside the terror tunnel complex under the Shifa Hospital—behind that blast-door.
They've exposed tunnels under the Qatari Building and rooms where Hamas terrorists operated before they fled. pic.twitter.com/hpLGcOh3kV
— Eylon Levy (@EylonALevy) November 22, 2023
Well, well, well…. look at that.
A UNRWA flag found in a tunnel uncovered by the IDF directly under the Al Shifa hospital in Gaza. pic.twitter.com/VFNgJo35ti
— Yoni Michanie (@YoniMichanie) November 22, 2023
MORE TO FOLLOW
Underneath Gaza’s Al-Shifa hospital complex. pic.twitter.com/NO2TdOwaJX
— Trey Yingst (@TreyYingst) November 22, 2023
Al-Shifa Hospital from above
Hamas terror complex below
Hamas hides behind hospitals
And here’s the drone footage
That incontrovertibly proves it
Hamas wages war from hospitals
Will the world condemn Hamas? pic.twitter.com/xvvqErP0t1— Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) November 22, 2023
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Fake news, all fake news. Those “tunnels” are on the same set that filmed the moon landing.
Video had to be previewed to avoid exposing how much the IDF knows of the tunnels.
I suspect the Gaza crowd will be surprised.
I need new conspiracy theories because all my old ones came true,
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For Hamas supporters everywhere, what will a “free” Palestine look like?
The evidence is overwhelming to anyone with open eyes and the least curiosity. Most disappointing are the people that should know better. Palestinians could have been the most prosperous of Arabs by merely saying yes. Instead, they have resorted to depravity toward others and themselves. Millions of Muslims have been killed by Muslims over the decades, Not much objection until Jews act in self-defense against genocide.
The Palestinians starting position for peace, which is also the same position the left holds, is the total eradication of Israel and the extermination of Jews where ever they can be found.
Israel’s starting position is, accept our right to exist in peace and stop trying to kill Jews where ever and when ever you can.
Seems to me that if Palestinians, and the left, actually wanted peace then the Israeli starting point is a much more realistic position to begin from.
But that’s just me 🤷♂️
When all the terrorists are dead, and the 75% of Gazans who support them are dead, maybe there can be peace. Anything less with just continue the current situation.
Also, America will have to root out similar elements, and probably have to use the same methods as Israel.
Once again the establishment media get it wrong, and Israel gets it right.
How predictable was this?
With the despicable “world community” chomping at the bit to say “Aha!” if Israel got it wrong, there was a 99.99% chance Israel had it right as I see it.
If there were a gambling market for this kind of thing, you could make a fortune placing pro-Israel bets.
The legacy media which is the propaganda arm of Hamas won’t even touch this with a ten foot pole
Israel is fighting with their military and media outreach both. Finally! Great work on both counts!
Viva Israel!