Israel unveils what it claims is a major Hamas militant hideout beneath Gaza City's Shifa Hospital
Israel unveils what it claims is a major Hamas militant hideout beneath Gaza City's Shifa Hospital
Israeli military officials have shown a group of international journalists a small living quarters they found in a tunnel underneath Shifa Hospital, claiming that the space had been used by Hamas militants.
Dozens of soldiers escorted journalists through a narrow stone tunnel — which the military said stretched 150 meters (164 yards) — to a series of underground bunkers beneath Shifa Hospital in a shattered Gaza City.
The living quarters, located at the end of the tunnel, had an air conditioner, kitchen, bathroom and pair of metal cots in a room fashioned from rusty white tile. They appeared to be out of use.
The AP was allowed access to Gaza on the condition that its journalist stay with the Israeli military convoy throughout the four-hour tour and submit all material to a military censor ahead of publication. There is no other way for foreign journalists to currently access the enclave.
I am very skeptical of anything coming out of the information war related to this conflict.
IDF built that bunker in the last uprising.
I've never heard that guy before but he's purposely ignoring things to make the other side seem idiotic, which is not a good faith argument.
You can't say Hamas is not using human shields. They are, they've even bombed some of them and spread disinformation that Israel did it to make Israel look even worse, it was one of their first moves after Oct 7th.
The only valuable bit of the link you posted was the CNN clip from the Israeli guy. I'm only leaving this comment in hopes that people think about the echo chambers they get in. Echo chambers are incredibly powerful and with regards to this conflict, very dangerous. It's an incredibly complex situation with the only innocent parties being the civilians on both sides.
Neither civilian group wants either of the current leaderships in play, but those leaderships are what caused this and are perpetuating it.
Holy shit! That's freaking crazy!
Interesting anecdote, I guess? It's more of an issue of who's using them than who built them though. If Hamas is using these bunkers as command posts (or any military purpose) under the hospital, Israel having built them 20 years ago doesn't change anything.
I've seen a lot of people posting this recently and, unless I'm missing something, it feels like a little bit of misdirection.
People have used the existence of the bunkers as evidence of a command post and ill intent. Clarifying that the bunkers were preexisting eliminates a lot of presumptions. Clarifying that Israel built them means that they know their existence isn't nefarious in and of itself.
The living quarters, located at the end of the tunnel, had an air conditioner, kitchen, bathroom and pair of metal cots in a room fashioned from rusty white tile. They appeared to be out of use.
Israel has not yet unveiled [the command] center, but the military portrayed the underground hideout as its most significant discovery yet.
The justification by Israel to destroy the hospital was that it was a command center. Apparently, AP is skeptical of this claim.
Guess the walls aren't filled with monitors as a good command center should be. Those goalposts are traveling at light speed now.
pair of metal cots in a room fashioned from rusty white tile. They appeared to be out of use.
"Major Hamas militant hideout".
They ascribe the claim to Israel, so it's not technically false, but man is it completely abdicating any responsibility to convey truth to the reader.