Israel Defence Forces claimed to have unearthed an underground tunnel route beneath a hospital in Khan Yunis, Gaza. The army released a drone footage of the tunnel and said that it contained “numerous findings such as command and control rooms, weapons, and additional intelligence materials.““An underground tunnel route beneath the European Hospital in Khan Yunis, Gaza. In a special, targeted operation, IDF soldiers located an underground tunnel route containing numerous findings such as command and control rooms, weapons, and additional intelligence materials. Hamas continues to exploit hospitals in Gaza for terrorist purposes, cynically exploiting and endangering civilians,” it said.Additionally, IDF also claimed that it eliminated two ” Mujahideen terrorists” on Saturday. “As’ad Abu Sharaiya, head of the Mujahideen terrorist organization in Gaza, and an additional Mujahideen terrorist Mahmoud Muhammad Hamid Kuhail, were eliminated earlier today in a joint IDF & ISA operation,” it said.“The terrorists infiltrated Kibbutz Nir Oz on Oct. 7, 2023. Abu Sharaiya was one of the leaders of the massacre and was directly involved in the abduction & murder of Shiri, Ariel and Kfir Bibas, Nattapong Pinta and an additional foreign national who is still held captive by the terrorist organization and in the abduction of the couple Gad and Judi Haggai,” it added.They further claimed that the “terrorist” was “responsible for recruiting terrorist operatives in Judea and Samaria & in Israel, advancing and carrying out terror attacks against Israel and IDF troops.”The October 7 Hamas-led attack killed around 1,200 people in Israel, mostly civilians, and saw 251 hostages taken—most later freed through ceasefires or deals, while Israeli forces rescued eight and recovered dozens of bodies. In response, Israel’s military campaign has killed over 54,000 Palestinians—largely women and children, according to Gaza’s health ministry—and devastated much of Hamas-run Gaza, displacing nearly 90% of its 2 million residents.
