Israel published videotape on Sunday of what it described as a lair dug by Palestinian zealots under the Gaza Strip’s biggest sanitarium, a focus of its searchanddestroy operations.
Israel published videotape on Sunday of what it described as a lair dug by Palestinian operatives under the Gaza Strip’s biggest sanitarium, a focus of its hunt- and- destroy operations against Hamas in a war now in its seventh week.
While admitting that it has a network of hundreds of kilometres of secret coverts, cellarages and access shafts throughout the Palestinian enclave, Hamas has denied that these are located in mercenary structure like hospitals.
In an update on operations in Gaza City’s Al Shifa Hospital, the Israeli service said its masterminds had uncovered a lair 10 metres deep and running 55 metres to a blast- evidence door.
” This type of door is used by the Hamas terrorist organisation to block Israeli forces from entering the command centres and the underground means belonging to Hamas,” said a military statement accompanied by videotape showing a narrow passage with arched concrete roofing, ending at a slate door.
The statement didn’t say what was beyond the door. The lair had been penetrated through a shaft discovered in a chalet within the Shifa emulsion that contained munitions.
