IDF releases Hamas interrogation videos to support allegations of hospital terror tunnels

 

Palestinian nurse Haneen Abu Daka, who seeks to increase her income by working in a strawberry field after hospital duty amid deteriorating economic conditions, walks as she works in Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City January 24, 2020. Picture taken January 24, 2020. REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa

The Israel Defense Forces released interrogation videos purporting to show captured Hamas terrorists who participated in the Oct. 7 attack discussing an alleged terrorist hideout under Gaza's largest hospital.

The footage was released one day after IDF spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari said Hamas terrorists have created an underground complex beneath the Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza.

"Hamas terrorists operate inside and under Shifa hospital — and other hospitals in Gaza — with a network of terror tunnels," Hagari said Friday. "Shifa is not the only hospital — it is one of many. Hamas-use of hospitals is systematic."

The Al-Shifa Hospital is the largest medical care facility in Gaza, with 1,500 beds and over 4,000 staff members.

"We have concrete evidence that hundreds of terrorists flooded into the hospital to hide there after the massacres of October 7," he added.

A senior Hamas leader called the allegations "baseless" in a statement reported by the Times of Israel.