A whiteboard that featured plans to make use of the rockets was additionally discovered.
The Israel Protection Forces have claimed that they discovered a Hamas rocket-making lab, weapons, and a tunnel entrance inside a mosque in Gaza Metropolis’s Zeitoun neighborhood. In addition they shared a video that confirmed Israeli troopers heading into the basement of {a partially} destroyed mosque and uncovering a base allegedly utilized by the Hamas operatives. Several types of mortars, warhead missiles, thermobaric weapons, and explosive supplies, have been present in an underground room. A whiteboard that featured plans to make use of the rockets and hint the paths of Israeli airstrikes was additionally discovered.
”Holy locations, akin to mosques, shouldn’t be used as fronts for terrorism. Hamas used this mosque as a weapons storage facility and a laboratory for Hamas’ rockets. Discovering dozens of mortars, warhead missiles, thermobaric weapons, RPGs, and a tunnel shaft. What was as soon as a spot of worship is now a house for terrorism,” the caption of the video learn, shared on X.
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Holy locations, akin to mosques, shouldn’t be used as fronts for terrorism.
Hamas used this mosque as a weapons storage facility and a laboratory for Hamas’ rockets. Discovering dozens of mortars, warhead missiles, thermobaric weapons, RPGs and a tunnel shaft.
What was as soon as a spot… pic.twitter.com/i6qK0j4HgQ
— Israel Protection Forces (@IDF) November 21, 2023
”I need you to grasp: A mosque, within the Zeitoun space, was getting used as a lab for making weapons. Troops enter the mosque, perform scans, and ensure there are not any traps. They head inside this mosque and discover a tunnel shaft… and a staircase,” The Occasions of Israel quoted IDF Spokesperson Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari.
Final week, Israel printed a video of what it described as a tunnel dug by Palestinian operatives beneath the Gaza Strip’s greatest hospital. ”The tunnel entrance comprises numerous protection mechanisms, akin to a blast-proof door and a firing gap, in an try by Hamas to dam Israeli forces from getting into,” the IDF mentioned in a press release in regards to the hospital tunnel.
Whereas acknowledging that it has a community of lots of of kilometres of secret tunnels, bunkers and entry shafts all through the Palestinian enclave, Hamas has denied that these are positioned in civilian infrastructure like hospitals.