Photo Credit: IDF
In this image of the Gaza Strip, the red dotted lines indicate the path of Hamas tunnels, which run under school grounds (highlighted in white at top and left) and an ambulance dispatch center (bottom right).

The Israel Defense Forces on Wednesday exposed a number of Hamas tunnels under civilian sites in the Gaza Strip, including one in the Tafah area of Gaza City located next to a franchised Pepsi factory, and another running next to an UNRWA elementary school that acts as a shelter for some 2,500 people, according to the IDF.

The tunnels pass under “buildings that are essential for civilian life, in the knowledge that a strike on those targets will be provocative. If the tunnels collapse, hospitals, mosques, universities, or factories will collapse with them,” said the IDF.

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A weapons storehouse and the entrance to a tunnel were also found in the homes of two Hamas operatives, said the IDF. One of the homes is located next to an UNRWA medical clinic which serves some 15,000 people in the area, according to the military.

“The locations in which this infrastructure was uncovered paints a very severe and sad picture, in which exploitation and lack of humanity are a modus operandi,” said the military. “The enemy is hiding infrastructure for the next war under the noses of the innocents, thereby placing them, against their will, at the front of the next conflict.”


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