tags: Israel-Palestine
Key Points:
- Israel built the tunnels in 1980
- Israel is open about this, it’s not a secret
- Hamas was formed in 1987
- Hamas expanded the tunnels past borders, and strategically for attacks
- To Egypt as well as Israel
“Already Known That Israel Built Bunkers Under Gaza Hospital”, Says Ex-PM date: November 22, 2023 author: Chandrashekar Srinivasan publication: NDTV
- ex-PM says it was built probably when Tel Aviv occupied Gaza
- Israel shows pictures of arms found underneath
- Israel calls them “bunkers”, but in a different (Israeli) article I read they were used to expand hospital space for operating the hospital
What Israel’s video of ‘Hamas tunnel’ under al-Shifa tells us date: 20 November 2023 author: Sarah Shamim publication: Aljazeera
- Al-Shifa tunnels first built in the 1980 when under Israeli control
- for context, Hamas was formed in 1987
- in 2001 first sign of military use
- in 2006 Palestinian fighters emerged to kidnap a soldier
- used to bypass siege to transport food, goods, weapons
- Hamas expanded tunnels past borders
‘A spider’s web of tunnels’: inside Gaza’s underground network being targeted by Israel date: 28 October 2023 author: Peter Beaumont publication: The Guardian
- tunnels used for smuggling and incursions into Israel
- extend under Dal al-Shifa hospital
- extend into Egypt too
- sometimes called the ‘metro’
- picture of Palestinian man removing sand to dig tunnel (2007)