10 metres deep tunnel discovered under Al-Shifa hospital
The Israeli military said its engineers had uncovered a tunnel 10 metres deep and running 55 metres to a blast-proof door. (Image credit: NYT News Service)
Tunnel used by Hamas to 'block Israeli forces', claims Israel
In a statement released by the Israeli military, they claimed, "This type of door is used by the Hamas terrorist organisation to block Israeli forces from entering the command centres and the underground assets belonging to Hamas." (Image credit: NYT News Service)
No information of what lies behind the door
The statement did not say what was beyond the door. The tunnel had been accessed through a shaft discovered in a shed within the Shifa compound that contained munitions, it said. (Image credit: Reuters)
Video evidence of the tunnel released
On November 19, Israel released a video of what it characterized as a tunnel created by Palestinian militants beneath the Gaza Strip's main hospital, which is the target of its search-and-destroy missions against Hamas in the war's seventh week. (Image credit: Reuters)
Hamas denies the claim
While acknowledging that it has a network of hundreds of kilometres of secret tunnels, bunkers and access shafts throughout the Palestinian enclave, Hamas has denied that these are located in civilian infrastructure like hospitals. (Image credit: ANI)
At least 50 killed in Israeli attack on Al-Fakhura school
In recent developments, a health ministry official in Gaza said that "at least 50 people" were killed in an Israeli strike on the UN-run Al-Fakhura school, which had been converted into a shelter for displaced Palestinians. (Image credit: IANS)