A tunnel containing a weapons production workshop was recently uncovered adjacent to the Jordanian Hospital in Gaza City, the Israel Defense Forces and Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet) said on Saturday.
It is about one mile long and contains manufacturing rooms, meeting rooms and senior officers’ quarters, the IDF stated.
It was discovered during an intelligence-guided operation carried out by troops from the 36th Division and the Shin Bet, in cooperation with the Yahalom Unit, a special forces unit of the Combat Engineering Corps, the military continued.
A tunnel shaft located near the hospital complex led to the underground structure.
IDF troops also located a tunnel shaft beneath Hamad Hospital in Gaza City, the army added.
Hamas “operates systematically within hospital complexes, exploiting humanitarian facilities for military purposes. For years, the terrorist organization has built an underground system beneath hospitals across the Gaza Strip, used to manufacture weapons and to conduct combat operations,” the IDF Spokesperson’s Unit said.
The military stressed that the terrorist activity of Hamas near the hospital was unknown to the Hashemite Kingdom.
“IDF troops in the area continue to operate to map out the underground infrastructure that was located, and are expanding their activities to additional sites where there are indications of terrorist activity,” the IDF statement read.
