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    9 months ago

    Chalmers: Yes, I should be–good lord, what is happening in there?!

    Skinner: Hamas HQ Tunnels?

    Chalmers: Hamas HQ Tunnels?! At this time of year, at this time of day, in this part of the country, localized entirely within your hospital?!

    Skinner: Yes.

    Chalmers: …May I see it?

    Skinner: …No.

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        9 months ago

        Skinner: . . . Oh wait, no not really.

        The Israeli military, however, has struggled to prove that Hamas maintained a command-and-control center under the facility. Critics of the Israeli military say the evidence does not support its early claims, noting that it had distributed material before the raid showing five underground complexes and also had said the tunnel network could be reached from wards inside a hospital building. Israel has publicly revealed the existence of only one tunnel entrance on the grounds of the hospital, at the shack outside its main buildings.

        The Israeli military says that it moved carefully because the tunnel was booby-trapped and ran out of time to investigate before it destroyed the tunnel and withdrew from the hospital. Israeli and Qatari officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Israel had to leave the hospital to comply with the terms of a temporary ceasefire in late November.

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        But the video appears to show something else: a water storage area built in 2016, when the hospital was constructed, according to engineering plans and images from the hospital’s construction reviewed by The Times.

        The Israeli military declined to provide additional imagery to support its assertion that this was a tunnel entryway or part of a tunnel complex.

        We didn’t prove it and we had to totally destroy it before we could!

        and

        CNN analysis: Video suggests IDF might have rearranged weaponry at Al-Shifa prior to news crew visits