Posted on 07/27/2022 7:17:03 PM PDT by Conservat1
... Among the sites disclosed to journalists on Wednesday was a tunnel used to store weapons and and move fighters in Gaza City's Tuffah neighborhood next to a now-closed Pepsi factory that closed following last year’s war as well as close to a UNRWA elementary school which is used as an emergency shelter for some 2,500 people in times of hostilities.
Another tunnel used by Hamas in the Zabara neighborhood of Gaza City identified by the IDF on Wednesday is under a UNWRA school and a central ambulance center with 14 ambulances as well as a medical equipment storage complex. The tunnel also runs under a church and schools that are used as shelters during hostilities.
Another site is a tunnel entry shaft that was exposed during last year’s conflict near the al-Azar university in Gaza City which has about 20,000 students. According to the IDF, the tunnel entry shaft leads to a network of subterranean tunnels that branches throughout the Tel-Hawa area southwest of Gaza City and is also close to a police station, a UNWRA school, medical clinic, mosque, a community center and UNRWA’s headquarters in the area.
According to the IDF, Hamas has a munition production facility located in a building that is also used as a residential building. The site, which contains explosives and flammable material that would cause extreme damage should it explode, is 45 meters from a mosque, 55 meters from a UNRWA clinic that is used as a triage and primary screening center, and 60 meters from Shifa hospital.
A Palestinian father reacts at the Shifa Hospital morgue after his son was killed in an explosion. (credit: REUTERS)
Shifa is considered the blockaded enclave’s main hospital and treats thousands of patients daily. But it has also been used by the terror group for years, including in the 2009 Operation Cast Lead, when senior Hamas officials hid in the building. It also used the hospital in 2014 during Operation Protective Edge as its main headquarters.
The IDF also shared the location of a munition warehouse used by Hamas inside the al-Shahid Mosque in the Bureij refugee camp, in the heart of a civilian neighborhood and next to a public library funded by Germany’s KfW bank. The mosque serves as a community center, providing first aid courses and activities for local children.
Another mosque identified by the IDF as an ammunition depot was the Abdullah Azzam Mosque in the Nuseirat refugee camp. According to the army, the mosque is an important part of the camp, is surrounded by residential homes and is just 86 m. from the offices of UNRWA’s North Nuseirat relief and social services.
“An explosion, an accident or even a fire in the warehouse could result in injuries to civilians, from worshipers in the mosque to people who come to receive humanitarian aid,” the IDF said.
Following a Wednesday tour of the Gaza Division, Defense Minister Benny Gantz said, “Hamas fires from within the civilian population and into the civilian population – the world should charge Hamas a price for its crimes.”
Schools, mosques and even hospitals:
The IDF reveals to the world - Hamas infrastructure in the heart of the civilian population in Gaza
The image of an ammunition depot belonging to a terrorist organization located next to a clinic or school is not new to Israelis, and to the world? For years, terrorist organizations in the Gaza Strip have been using civil, religious, and humanitarian buildings as human shields. But how common is it?
27.07.22
Adi Keller and Yuval Tal
It's no secret to us that the Gaza Strip is an uneasy section. Some of the challenges encountered by commanders in the field revolve around the question of how to operate in such a civilian and complex area. The terrorist organizations in the Gaza Strip, led by 'Hamas', take advantage of the civilian route to determine the rules of warfare themselves.
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After the 'Guardian of the Walls' operation, for example, during which an underground terror tunnel of Hamas was attacked, an entrance shaft leading to an entire network, located under the Islamic University, was exposed. The university has about 20,000 students, and is a center of political, social, and cultural power. The main headquarters of UNRWA in the Middle East is also located near the tunnels.
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It is also exposed to manufacturing and repairing Hamas weapons, located in a building used for residences and other civilian needs. The site is intended for terrorist activity and funded infrastructure throughout the Gaza Strip, and 45 meters from a mosque, 55 meters from UNRWA clinic and 60 meters from the Shifa Hospital, the central and important hospital in the Gaza Strip The patients are treated every thousand patients and employs about 1,000 employees.
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Over the years, the hospital and its surroundings were used for terrorist needs: January 2009, during Operation Cast Lead, the GSS revealed that Senior Hamas officials take advantage of the hospital to a hiding place. In 2014, during Operation Tzuk Eitan, Report in Washington Post that hospital offices are used as a primary headquarters of Hamas, and the organization's activists were observed in the corridors of the hospital. The production site contains explosives and flammable materials, which may flare And explode, all at the time being unbeated in the building.
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Another case is the Hamas ammunition depot located inside the "Al-Shahid" mosque - a mosque where sports classes, first aid courses, children's activities and youth movement activities are held. The warehouse is hidden in the heart of a civilian neighborhood and next to a public library financed by a German bank.
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What is less known is that in addition to the warehouses and training bases of those organizations, underground networks are also being built within the various neighborhoods in the Strip. The tunnels pass under buildings necessary for the civilian way of life, knowing that attacking those targets would be provocative. If the tunnels collapse, hospitals, mosques, universities or factories will also collapse with them.
תוואי מנהרת טרור מתחת למתחם בתי ספר ומבנים רפואיים [https://www.idf.il/%D7%90%D7%AA%D7%A8%D7%99-%D7%99%D7%97%D7%99%D7%93%D7%95%D7%AA/%D7%A4%D7%99%D7%A7%D7%95%D7%93-%D7%94%D7%93%D7%A8%D7%95%D7%9D/%D7%9B%D7%9C-%D7%94%D7%9B%D7%AA%D7%91%D7%95%D7%AA/2022/%D7%AA%D7%95%D7%95%D7%90%D7%99-%D7%9E%D7%A0%D7%94%D7%A8%D7%AA-%D7%98%D7%A8%D7%95%D7%A8-%D7%9E%D7%AA%D7%97%D7%AA-%D7%9C%D7%9E%D7%AA%D7%97%D7%9D-%D7%91%D7%AA%D7%99-%D7%A1%D7%A4%D7%A8-%D7%95%D7%9E%D7%91%D7%A0%D7%99%D7%9D-%D7%A8%D7%A4%D7%95%D7%90%D7%99%D7%99%D7%9D/] The route of a terrorist tunnel under the school complex and medical buildings.
A recent example is the underground terror tunnel of Hamas in the Tapah neighborhood of Gaza City. The tunnel is used for the storage of explosives and for the movement of Hamas terrorist operatives, and is located near the "Pepsi" factory operating under franchise, and the UNRWA "Drag" elementary school, which in an emergency is used as a declared shelter for 2,500 people.
Also located, an war-material warehouse and a terrorist tunnel shaft were located in the homes of two of the organization's operatives. The first is Mahmoud Salah Muhammad Abu Ali - an operative in the Hamas production system, on the roof of his house a war-material warehouse was discovered. And it's not just his house that he poor - the house is surrounded by other residences and is located next to the UNRWA clinic, which is across the road and provides medical care to about 15 thousand people.
The second activist is Omer Oni Ooch of Hisan, an activist of the terrorist organization Hamas and in charge of training in the Shujaiyya battalion, whose house has a tunnel shaft 60 meters away from a school with about 20 classes and is used as a shelter for refugees during an emergency, and 30 meters away from a mosque.
The locations where the infrastructures were discovered present a difficult and sad picture of the situation, where exploitation and inhumanity are a course of action. The enemy hides under the noses of innocent people the infrastructure for the next war, thus putting them, against their will, at the front of the next campaign. Commanders from all the units associated with the sector are dealing with the dilemmas that the situation creates. They operate with the knowledge that if they do not act - those places will be used for terrorism. This is how the surgical and pinpoint strikes that the IDF is identified with were created.
It burned me up when they were doing that to Israel and the world could have cared less. Doing it in Ukraine now, and the world could care less too.
The media has a large share to blame, especially when covering the facts behind ‘dead civilians’ in Gaza. Mati Friedman elaborated in 2014 how the AP works...
Of course. It’s in their coward’s handbook.
Terrorists will be terrorists, you know. Hamas says Screw the civilians who will die because of these warfare locations.
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