The Israeli military says it has discovered tunnels underneath the main headquarters of the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees in Gaza City, alleging that Hamas militants used the space as an electrical supply room.
The unveiling of the tunnels marked the latest chapter in Israel’s campaign against the embattled agency, which it accuses of collaborating with Hamas.
Recent Israeli allegations that a dozen staff members participated in the Hamas attack on Israel Oct. 7 plunged the agency into a financial crisis, prompting major donor states to suspend their funding as well as twin investigations. The agency says that Israel has also frozen its bank account, embargoed aid shipments and canceled its tax benefits.
The army invited journalists to view the tunnel on Thursday.
Almost 30k dead Palestinians (mostly women and children) to find an electrical supply room and series of tunnels under a building?
Israel is a racist terrorist state.
Leaving the facility, it was nearly impossible to identify one window left fully intact. Bullet holes pockmarked the walls. Shrapnel was everywhere, crumpled-up U.N. vehicles were perched precariously atop building debris. Dogs roamed the area.
"The Israeli army is occupying our biggest UNRWA headquarters,” Touma said in response to Israeli allegations. “That’s what’s outrageous.”
Also of note, Gaza is like what, 4 square miles?
There’s tunnels and bomb shelters under literally everything. For reasons that should be obvious now that they’re pretty much the only structures left intact
Gaza is like what, 4 square miles?
About 141 square miles.
Ha, you think any of those tunnels were used as bomb shelters for civilians? Hamas rather force them to stay in their homes to get them better footage.
They are so obsessed with tunnels. Meanwhile 28,000 people have died and hundreds of thousands of people have been rendered homeless in genocide by the hand of Israel. Genociders are trying get us to look elsewhere. What a fucking joke.
Not the dreaded Hamas electrical supply room!
Say it were actually an electrical supply room used by Hamas under the UN headquarters like Israel is suggesting, does the affiliation of the UN with the organization that planned and executed the terrorist attack on innocent people mean nothing?
It doesn’t mean anything if it is unsubstantiated BS.
I agree. They are inviting reporters to look at it though. Are they unbiased sources? I don’t know but if they were from reasonably unbiased sources and they verified the claims, wouldn’t it mean something?
“A tunnel!!! We better kill another twenty thousand civilians, just in case.” — The IDF, probably.
“A child as young as 5 years old can help dig a tunnel and even unborn babies can grow up to be tunnel diggers, so to protect the Israeli people we have to stop them now.” — The IDF, probably.
Every hospital in my area has basements and tunnels going under parking lots and connecting facility wings.
Hamas really is everywhere.
I just found a basement beneath my own house
Quick, someone drop a 5 ton bomb. There might be hummus down there!
There are tunnels all over my town! Sure the paperwork SAYS it’s sewage and old tunnels that have been walled off for over a century, but we all know Hamas is in there.
The more Israel obsess over how many tunnels there are in Gaza, the more I realize they’re more like public infrastructure than scary military hideouts
Like a rational response to a constrained geographic footprint…
When I was scrolling down I saw the title first before seeing the forum and immediatelly thought - I kid you not - that “This must be The Onion”.
One has to be incredibly naive (or a pro-Israel racist) to believes in all these “amazing coincidences” one after the other of Israel suddenly “discovering” (whilst providing zero evidence) all manner of bad things about the Humanitarian agency that’s keeping Palestinians from starving to death and thus impeding a “final solution” for the “Palestinian problem” (both quotes are from Israeli officials)
I’ll be honest, I assumed half of the last paragraph was stolen from Nazi material and had jewish references replaced with Palestinian ones.
Also: why are we demonizing tunnels?
Holy shit. I knew they were genocidal as fuck, but I didn’t know they actually used those words. Could you please post some sources for those quotes? I’d love to take a look into it.
Oh, this time I believe them!
1 week later we find out that Israel dug those tunnels 20 years ago
UNRWA evacuated the HQ on the 12th of October 2023 and hasn’t visited it since then, following the Israeli evacuation orders and as bombardment intensified, as per Lazzarini, Commissioner General of UNRWA said in a press release.
The last inspection for the UNRWA Gaza premises was completed in September 2023. Nothing was found at the time. Inspections are done quarterly.
So, either the UNRWA staff in the Gaza HQ gave access to its electricity infrastructure to Hamas between the date of the inspection and the date on which the premises have been evacuated, or Hamas tapped into their electricity infrastructure after the staff has left the premises of the Gaza UNRWA HQ.
That is just about how much time this IDF piece deserves. The thirty thousand dead civillians won’t come back now, no matter what happens, with or without Hamas tapping into UNRWA electricity lines.
So no chance that the inspectors simply ignored it? That can’t be a possibility, can it?
Sure, if you have proof of that then please do say it. Otherwise this is just more IDF Hasbara speculation that I won’t engage with. If there’s no proof for a thing, then I’ll take the more probable explanation instead of some crazy conspiracy.
“Israeli head of state claims to be doing everything possible to minimize Palestinian civilians”
Meanwhile I’m still waiting here for the Al Shifa Hamas Command Center to be finally unveiled. They’ve conquered that hospital over two months ago.
I checked every basement if every friend around me and in each one I found tunnels and the Hamas headquarters, even though I’m thousands of kilometers away and everything I just wrote is made up. I guess the Israeli military and I have that in common.
I am not seeing any evidence. Sad that AP is manufacturing consent for Genocide.
A reminder that the IDF straight up lied to CNN that they walked through a tunnel underneath a graveyard. Later on it was proven that the tunnel did not go underneath the graveyard.
https://youtu.be/34CxzZtVxnE?t=3m18s
