(10 Feb 2024)

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Gaza City, Gaza Strip - 8 February 2024
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1. Large crater showing troops, tunnel entrance under a destroyed UNRWA structure
HEADLINE: ISRAEL SHOWS TUNNELS UNDER UNRWA IN GAZA
2. Troops arriving at site of large crater
ANNOTATION: The Israeli military says it has discovered tunnels underneath the main headquarters of the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees in Gaza City.
3. Destroyed UNRWA structure
4. Exterior of UNRWA headquarters
5. Troops walking alongside wall with writing: (English) “UNRWA headquarters-Gaza”
ANNOTATION: The army invited journalists to view the tunnel on Thursday.
6. Troops showing bucket lowered on portable device
7. Lt. Col. Ido UPSOUND (English) “We want every international to organization to work in Gaza. They are not our problem. Our problem is the Hamas, the Hamas working in the UNRWA and under the UNRWA. We will show you now what we found for the last two weeks that we’ve been here."
8. Various of tunnel filled with water
ANNOTATION: The unveiling of the tunnels marked the latest chapter in Israel's campaign against the embattled agency, which it accuses of collaborating with Hamas.
9. Lt. Col. Ido UPSOUND (English) “Twenty meters above us is the UNRWA headquarters. This is the electricity room, you can see all around here the batteries, the electricity on walls, everything is conducted from here, all the energy for the tunnels which you walked though are powered from here.”
10. Destroyed area with heavy machinery
ANNOTATION: Recent Israeli allegations that a dozen staff members participated in the Hamas attack on Israel Oct. 7 plunged the agency into a financial crisis.
11. Troops with sea in background
12. Troops walking alongside wall with writing (English) “UNRWA headquarters-Gaza”
ANNOTATION: UNWRA says it had no knowledge of the facilities underground, but the findings merit an “independent inquiry.”
STORYLINE:
The Israeli military says it has discovered tunnels underneath the main headquarters of the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees in Gaza City, alleging that Hamas militants used the space as an electrical supply room.

The unveiling of the tunnels marked the latest chapter in Israel's campaign against the embattled agency, which it accuses of collaborating with Hamas.

Recent Israeli allegations that a dozen staff members participated in the Hamas attack on Israel Oct. 7 plunged the agency into a financial crisis, prompting major donor states to suspend their funding as well as twin investigations. The agency says that Israel has also frozen its bank account, embargoed aid shipments and canceled its tax benefits.

The army invited journalists to view the tunnel on Thursday.

It did not prove definitively that Hamas militants operated in the tunnels underneath the UNWRA facility, but it did show that at least a portion of the tunnel ran underneath the facility's courtyard. The military claimed that the headquarters supplied the tunnels with electricity.

UNWRA says it had no knowledge of the facilities underground, but the findings merit an “independent inquiry,” which the agency is unable to perform due to the ongoing war.


At one point, journalists were able to gaze upward from the tunnel, through a hole, and make eye contact with soldiers standing in a courtyard within the UNWRA facility.






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