Reporters from The New York Times, Reuters and AP reported on the tunnel firsthand. So did Israeli newspapers.
So what does Hamas and its fans say? It is all fake! A conspiracy theory! Zionist lies!
The Government Media Office in the Gaza Strip denied the Israeli occupation army's allegations regarding the existence of a tunnel under the European Hospital in the southern Gaza Strip .
It confirmed that army forces had excavated the site and placed a pipe, which they later claimed was a tunnel, and filmed a mock scene near the hospital's emergency department.The government office said in a statement on Sunday that the occupation's narrative is "fabricated, flawed, and full of loopholes and fabricated allegations, and does not stand up to even the slightest degree of scrutiny and logic."The office explained that the video published by the Israeli army shows the mouth of the alleged tunnel as "a narrow iron tube, too narrow for even a person to pass through, containing no stairs or equipment, and in no way suitable for a tunnel."He confirmed that the area shown in the video clip is a "rainwater drainage area."Refuting the Israeli narrative, the government office said that Israel "previously announced its intention to destroy the health system and admitted to using bunker-busting bombs weighing more than 40 tons to destroy the infrastructure of the European Hospital. So how could intact, unburned bodies be displayed at a site the occupation claims to have bombed with such ferocity?"The office pointed out that the video clip published by the Israeli occupation army included an unprofessional cut-and-paste process, as the scene at second 14 is completely different from what it appears at second 15.
The first 14 seconds of the video clearly show, in one shot, the camera (apparently a drone) panning from the emergency room entrance of the hospital, down through the hole Israel dug to get to the tunnel (their bombs had sealed off the entrances to stop Sinwar from escaping) and clearly showing a tunnel going underneath the emergency room. .It is not a pipe or a drainage ditch - it looks just like other Hamas tunnels. The edit between 14 and 15 seconds is from switching from the drone camera to a handheld camera where a soldier could take the video.
So Hamas was clearly lying even before the newspaper stories confirming the tunnels were published.
But it wasn't only Hamas that embraced this conspiracy theory. Rami Abdu, the head of the "Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor" that is solidly pro-Hamas, also claimed that the footage was fake. "The clip is clearly a fabricated propaganda video, combining two images from two different locations and showing no tunnel at all."
Remember, the Hamas media office has been quoted for Gaza casualty statistics by the UN, and Euro-Mediterranean pretends to be a real human rights NGO.
Hamas lies about everything. And the media keeps quoting them as if they have credibility.
I did not see any Arab newspaper condemning Mohammed Sinwar for hiding directly underneath a hospital and using patients as human shields (although I saw some complaints on social media.)
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