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.
The Israelis also claimed there was a Hamas base under a cemetery, but their claims about the location were disproven by CNN*: entrances weren’t where the Israelis said they were, and tunnels didn’t run where the Israelis said they did. Just briefly glancing at this article, I see that the reporters did not or were not given the opportunity to verify several Israeli claims, including
“Twenty meters above us is the UNRWA headquarters,” and “The military said Saturday night that the tunnel began at a UNRWA school”
I’d like to see more evidence before believing Israel here. Especially since they haven’t shown the ‘UNWRA staff participated in the October attacks’ evidence to the UN or several other countries.
* Israel claims a tunnel ran through this Gaza cemetery it destroyed. A visit to the site raised more questions than answers. Or if you prefer video: IDF says they destroyed this Gaza graveyard because of Hamas activity. CNN can’t find the evidence.
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.
The Gaza Strip is 41 kilometres (25 miles) long, from 6 to 12 km (3.7 to 7.5 mi) wide, and has a total area of 365 km2 (141 sq mi)
So it is ~4 miles wide.
At its thinnest, yes.
Ad not even double that at its thickest.
Your numbers seem to indicated that it’s right around double the width of its thinnest point at it’s thickest.
7.4 is not 7.5.
You are correct that it is close, however even 7.5 miles is tiny.
Not the dreaded Hamas electrical supply room!
It’s next to the bombed Hamas park used by Hamas children.
Yeah and the Hamas children used Hamas transit to travel Hamas km to do Hamas on the Hamas.
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?
They’ve already faked it twice, so I wouldn’t believe it the 3rd time personally.
I’m trying to look at this logically. If you were going to fake something, how is the best you can come up with an electrical supply room? It’s a pretty crappy gotcha. Which brings us back to my original question of even if Israel had faked it before, if this time it was proven to be true, wouldn’t that mean something? I would liken that scenario to be like the police frame two people for murder but the third one is legitimate. It’s right to be very sceptical but if it’s all proven to be true for the 3rd person it should still mean something
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.
alleging that Hamas militants used the space as an electrical supply room
A Hamas electrical supply room! Maybe there was a Hamas McDonalds down the road as well.
They were improperly storing lightbulbs and extension cords . So Israel is definitely in the right
God damn Hamas, that’s a fire hazard! We better genocide more innocent civilians just in case!
- Israel, probably.
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Oh, this time I believe them!
It did not prove definitively that Hamas militants operated in the tunnels underneath the UNWRA facility, but it did show that at least a portion of the tunnel ran underneath the facility’s courtyard
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.
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.
So do you get paid for your posts here?
3€ for every sentence
Given your history here is essentially just this, I think there js a good chance you are being somewhat honest in this answer.
Yes, I care about the Palestinian cause quite a lot.
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.
Yeah, I keep my Hamas toilet paper in my Hamas closet just in case a Hamas pandemic causes a Hamas supply crunch again.
Just admit you want to kill all Palestinians, Bibi the Big-Eared Butcher.
“Israeli head of state claims to be doing everything possible to minimize Palestinian civilians”
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
This article seems to allege electrical and communication cables were run through the ground between the UNRWA headquarters and the tunnel network?
If true they buried the lede here. Idgaf where the tunnels are - when you dig a miles long tunnel, it’ll go under a lot of unrelated buildings. If however the headquarters was serving as a communication relay and power supply, then that’s pretty damning.
I’ll argue you on the damning part.
If someone illegally, and without your consent, taps into your power lines and steals electricity to run say, a weed grow operation, are you suddenly now affiliated with that drug ring? No, of course not, you weren’t involved and are also a victim
If however you allowed that to happen, that’s a different story. The IDF has a high burden of proof to clear here, especially after their big claims of Al-Shifa and the cemetery fell flat
Sure agreed if they didn’t know, but it seems like there was at least a Hamas cell inside the UNRWA that did:
Inside one of the UNRWA buildings, journalists saw a room full of computers with wires stretching down into the ground. Soldiers then showed them a room in the underground tunnel where they claimed the wires connected.
My paint remains though - the wires might be linked from the building to the tunnel, but it’s a jump to say the UNRWA is complicit instead of a victim
Well to use your analogy here, let’s say a weed grow operation steals your electricity by plugging extension cords into several outlets and running them through open windows. Further let’s say this goes on for years with you living in the house. At a certain point it strains credulity to believe that you aren’t in on it.
Something similar seems to have happened here. It doesn’t implicate the UNRWA as a whole, but it certainly raises questions about the employees at this location.
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.
