Embassy Of Israel In Nigeria Accuses Hamas Of War Crime.

By Ferdinand Olise

Israel has revealed new evidence that Hamas, which it described as the terror organization funded and backed by the Islamic Republic of Iran, is using Hospitals, medical facilities, and children’s playgrounds as terror bases in the Gaza strip in clear breach of international law.

Israel Defense Forces Spokesman Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari provided video footage of Hamas gunmen emerging from a tunnel under Sheikh Hamad Hospital, as well firing at Israelis forces from within the building itself.

This was contained in a statement by the Israeli Embassy in Nigeria, on November 6, 2023.

According to the statement,  Hagari presented a video showing an underground entrance from Sheikh Hamad Hospital, which he said connects to a Hamas tunnel networks believed to run for hundreds of kilometers under the Gaza Strip, and has been built over many years.

Hagari stressed that the IDF has intelligence of a tunnel network under the so-called Indonesian Hospital, as well as aerial imagery showing rocket launchers a few dozen meters from the complex.

“Hamas systematically built the Indonesian Hospital to disguise its underground terror infrastructure,” Hagari said.

The Israel Defense Forces also provided evidence that the Hamas terror group’s main base of operations is under Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, providing visuals and intercepted audio as evidence of the terror organization’s activities.

IDF Spokesman, Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari said Hamas has several underground complexes under the Shifa hospital in the Gaza Strip, that are used by the terror group’s leaders to direct attacks against Israel.

Hagari further stated that Israel has intelligence that there are several tunnels leading to the underground base from outside the hospital so that Hamas officials do not need to enter the hospital to reach it.

Hagari further revealed that there is also an entrance to the underground complex from within one of the wards.

The Embassy stated that, separately, the IDF shared footage of its troops locating rocket-launching positions in civilian areas, amid efforts to uncover and destroy Hamas’s infrastructure. The terror group uses such sites to fire rockets at Israeli population centers.

According to the statement, footage showed that Troops found four underground launchers five meters (16 feet) from a Children’s swimming pool, and around 30 meters from residential homes in the northern Gaza Strip.