Did Israel Build Underground Fortress Under Gaza’s Biggest Hospital?

Mehmet Rakipoglu, a researcher at the London-based think tank Dimensions for Strategic Studies, claimed that Israel built an underground fortress under Gaza’s biggest hospital.

With 700 beds, the Dar Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City is the biggest medical facility in the Gaza Strip. Over the past week and a half, the IDF has launched many attacks on the facility, claiming that Hamas uses the facilities below as a stronghold command center. Is this story true in any way?

In an alarming X post published on Monday, the Israel Defence Forces gave a concerning justification for their targeting of ambulances and hospitals in the Gaza Strip. They claimed that "hospitals are in fact terrorist infrastructure" and that "for Hamas, ambulances are used to transport its operatives and weapons to disguise them as civilians."

“This is against international law and turns them into legitimate military targets,” the IDF said.

There have been numerous attacks on the al-Shifa hospital com...

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