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Dozens of soldiers escorted journalists through a narrow stone tunnel — which the military said stretched 150 meters (164 yards) — to a series of underground bunkers beneath Shifa Hospital in a shattered Gaza City.

The living quarters, located at the end of the tunnel, had an air conditioner, kitchen, bathroom and pair of metal cots in a room fashioned from rusty white tile. They appeared to be out of use.

The AP was allowed access to Gaza on the condition that its journalist stay with the Israeli military convoy throughout the four-hour tour and submit all material to a military censor ahead of publication. There is no other way for foreign journalists to currently access the enclave.

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[–] halfempty@kbin.social 27 points 11 months ago

I am very skeptical of anything coming out of the information war related to this conflict.

[–] deegeese@sopuli.xyz 22 points 11 months ago (1 children)

IDF built that bunker in the last uprising.

[–] breakfastmtn@lemmy.ca 4 points 11 months ago

Interesting anecdote, I guess? It's more of an issue of who's using them than who built them though. If Hamas is using these bunkers as command posts (or any military purpose) under the hospital, Israel having built them 20 years ago doesn't change anything.

I've seen a lot of people posting this recently and, unless I'm missing something, it feels like a little bit of misdirection.

[–] bedrooms@kbin.social 12 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

The living quarters, located at the end of the tunnel, had an air conditioner, kitchen, bathroom and pair of metal cots in a room fashioned from rusty white tile. They appeared to be out of use.

Israel has not yet unveiled [the command] center, but the military portrayed the underground hideout as its most significant discovery yet.

The justification by Israel to destroy the hospital was that it was a command center. Apparently, AP is skeptical of this claim.

[–] Rapidcreek@reddthat.com -5 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Guess the walls aren't filled with monitors as a good command center should be. Those goalposts are traveling at light speed now.

[–] czech@kbin.social 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Every good command center has a pair of metal cots in a room fashioned from rusty white tile that appear to be out of use. That should be enough for anyone!

[–] Rapidcreek@reddthat.com -1 points 11 months ago

Yeah, cause it's really easy to move a king sized bed though an underground tunnel.

[–] cybervseas@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

Maybe the required hardware for IDF to stage the command post is flying at light speed?

[–] Zaktor@sopuli.xyz 8 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

pair of metal cots in a room fashioned from rusty white tile. They appeared to be out of use.

"Major Hamas militant hideout".

They ascribe the claim to Israel, so it's not technically false, but man is it completely abdicating any responsibility to convey truth to the reader.