For weeks, Israel has claimed that the al-Shifa Hospital is above an underground Hamas "headquarters”, justifying its military interventions on the health complex. On November 16, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) claimed to have discovered the entrance to an underground passage under the al-Shifa Hospital. While IDF videos serve as evidence of a tunnel structure under the hospital complex, it does not indicate who used it for what purpose.
“A significant 55-meter-long terrorist tunnel, 10 meters underneath the Shifa Hospital complex”: on November 19, the IDF claimed to have new elements proving that Hamas was operating an underground tunnel beneath al-Shifa Hospital, the largest in Gaza.
