[News] Existence of tunnels dug by the Palestinian resistance under Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Hospital in the Gaza refuted.

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Photos of Sheikh Hamad Hospital in Gaza expose the Israeli lies
GAZA, (PIC) - November 9, 2023
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Once again, the allegations of Israeli occupation forces (IOF) regarding
the existence of tunnels dug by the Palestinian resistance under Sheikh
Hamad bin Khalifa Hospital for Rehabilitation and Prosthetics in the Gaza
Strip have been refuted.

The IOF published on November 5 a briefing by its spokesman, Daniel Hagar,
in which he claimed that the Israeli occupation soldiers discovered during
their ground operation in the northern Gaza Strip a tunnel used by Hamas in
the garden of Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Hospital for Rehabilitation and
Prosthetics, which was funded by the Qatari government.

Avichay Adraee, the head of the Arab media division in the Israeli army,
also posted the video on his X account, alleging that Israeli soldiers have
uncovered an underground structure inside the medical compound.

The video showed ground openings in the hospital garden, which the IOF
claimed were a Hamas tunnel, which was quickly proven wrong.

The video began to spread on Arab social media platforms, where it provoked
a state of ridicule among the pioneers of the virtual world of the Israeli
army regarding the ease of finding the tunnel, at a time when the
Palestinian resistance factions are keen to hide their tunnels completely
and without leaving any signs or signals indicating them, according to the
comments.

Al Jazeera Net monitored some of the comments about the origin of the
openings shown by the video, and during the search process it was found
that the hospital was established in 2016, by the company Sakka and
Khudari, which was documenting the construction process of the project
through its accounts. In 2014 the company published aerial footage of the
project showing the rooms of the water tank during the construction process.

The master construction plan of the hospital also showed the presence of a
concrete water tank and openings in the hospital garden.

A wider search through the hospital's social media accounts revealed that
the openings were found in most of the photos the hospital administration
took of its patients in its garden on different dates.

Civil engineer Saad Al-Wahidi, who was part of the team working on the
hospital project, explained why there are such openings in the garden of
Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Hospital in Gaza, saying that these openings are
an upper nozzle for an underground concrete tank dedicated to filling
water, and the side pipe is for ventilation and is used to exit air from
the tank during its filling.

Al-Wahidi added that the reservoir is located on the eastern side of the
hospital, and is allocated as a reserve balance for the hospital's water
and for irrigating its garden as well.

Users of social media described the IOF’s narrative as false, stressing
that the Israeli army spreads lies to justify its bombing and targeting of
hospitals. Others wondered about the IOF's failure to publish pictures of
the tunnel entrances, according to some comments.

On the other hand, the Chairman of the Qatari Committee for the
Reconstruction of Gaza, Ambassador Mohammed Al-Emadi, expressed the State
of Qatar's strong condemnation of the IOF’s allegations that there are
tunnels under Sheikh Hamad Hospital in Gaza without concrete evidence or
independent investigation.

He considered it a blatant attempt to justify the Israeli targeting of
civilians, hospitals, schools, population gatherings and shelters for the
displaced.

Al-Emadi confirmed, in a statement to the Qatar News Agency, QANA, that
Sheikh Hamad Hospital in Gaza was established transparently in accordance
with the highest international standards under the supervision of the
Qatari Committee for the Reconstruction of Gaza with Israeli approval, for
medical purposes and benefited thousands of people in Gaza.

He stressed that such allegations should not be made arbitrarily, and the
Israeli narrative must not be taken as de facto without an independent
investigation into the allegations they constitute, while warning of using
them as a pretext to target civil facilities.

The government media office (GMO) in Gaza has previously refuted the IOF’s
allegations. The GMO and Hamas Movement have expressed willingness to
receive any international committee to be formed by the Secretary-General
of the United Nations to visit hospitals in Gaza and verify the lie of the
Israeli allegations.
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