November 21
As Israel wages its propaganda war over Al-Shifa, it is simultaneously laying siege to yet another medical facility.
“Al-Shifa’s Tunnels Were Built by Israel
It’s also well known that there are, in fact, tunnels and rooms under Al-Shifa. We know that because Israel admits that it built them in the early 1980s. According to Israeli media reports, the underground facilities were designed by Tel Aviv architects Gershon Zippor and Benjamin Idelson. ‘Israel renovated and expanded the hospital complex with American assistance, in a project that also included the excavation of an underground concrete floor,’ according to Zvi Elhyani, founder of the Israel Architecture Archive, writing in Israel’s Ynetnews.
The underground infrastructure was part of a modernization and expansion effort at Al-Shifa commissioned by Israel’s Public Works Department. ‘The Israeli civil administration in the territories constructed the hospital complex’s Building Number 2, which has a large cement basement that housed the hospital’s laundry and various administrative services,’ according to a report in the Israeli newspaper Haaretz. The room and tunnels under Al-Shifa were reportedly completed in 1983. Tablet magazine described the space as ‘a secure underground operating room and tunnel network.’ Zippor’s son Barak, who began working at his father’s architecture firm in the 1990s, said that during the construction at Al-Shifa in the 1980s, the Israeli construction contractors hired Hamas to provide security guards to prevent attacks on the building site.”
Read the article: AL-SHIFA HOSPITAL, HAMAS’S TUNNELS, AND ISRAELI PROPAGANDA
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