(10 Feb 2024)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Gaza City, Gaza Strip - 08 February 2024
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1. Large crater showing troops, entrance to tunnel entrance under a destroyed UNRWA structure
2. Troops arriving at site of large crater
3. Masked troop next to APC
4. Destroyed UNRWA structure
5. Exterior of UNRWA headquarters, sign on wall reading: (English) “UNRWA HQ - Gaza Security. All visitors please report here.”
6. Interior showing UNRWA room with shattered windows and ceiling destroyed
7. Lt. Col. Ido UPSOUND (English) “This is the UNRWA headquarters here, you can see the sign there, and we’ll start walking inside”
8. Troops walking alongside wall with writing: (English) “UNRWA headquarters-Gaza”
9. Troop and reporters walking next to writing on wall: (English) “UNRWA headquarters-Gaza”
10. UN vehicle with shattered windows
11. Troops lowering bucket with several belongings of media attending tour down tunnel shaft said to be 20 meters deep
12. Various of troops lowering bucket down tunnel shaft
13. Troops showing bucket lowered on portable device
14. Troops lowering bucket down tunnel shaft
15. Masked troops
16. Lt. Col. Ido UPSOUND (English) “We want every international to organisation 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."
17. Various masked troops
18. Tunnel with banner on wall reading: (Arabic) “Victory factors when fighting a battle, remember god.”
19. Tunnel
20. Walking shot in tunnel filled with water
21. Lt. Col. Ido UPSOUND (English) “We had a walk approximately 400 meters, at the depth of 20 meters, and before we were at the UNRWA headquarters, above, on ground, now we are underneath.”
22. Masked troops in tunnel
23. Lt. Col. Ido UPSOUND (English) taking bucket that was lowered and handing back belongings “The bucket from upstairs from 20 meters high, press (card)? That’s yours”
24. 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.”
25. Destroyed car in rubble and troops
26. Soot after what appears to be fire in buildings
27. Destroyed area with heavy machinery
28. Troops with sea in background
29. Various of troops
30. Troops walking alongside wall with writing (English) “UNRWA headquarters-Gaza”
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.
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