Iran Press/ America: The video, released on Thursday, shows a hole in the ground and what appears to be a shaft reinforced with concrete with exposed pipes and cabling.
At one point, the video, which has been geolocated by CNN, tilts up to reveal one of the hospital’s main buildings about 30 meters away from the hole.
The video does not show the inside of the shaft.
Israel has been under significant international pressure to prove its claims about Hamas’s supposed infiltration of the hospital.
In a televised briefing later Thursday, the Israeli military spokesman Daniel Hagari said army engineers were still working to expose the tunnel infrastructure.
The UN’s High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk called on the Israeli regime to grant independent investigators access to Gaza to probe the competing claims.
“This is precisely where you need an independent international investigation, because we have different narratives,” said Türk on Thursday. “You cannot use … hospitals, for any military purposes. But you also cannot attack a hospital in the absence of clear evidence.”
The release of the video came as Israeli troops continued to conduct what an Israel Defense Forces (IDF) spokesman called “very specific, contained operations” both “inside and in the vicinity of the hospital complex.”
Israel has been bombarding Gaza, an impoverished and densely packed territory, since the October 7 attack on its territory by Hamas.
Israeli airstrikes have killed 11,470 people in Gaza, 4,707 of them children, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health in Ramallah said Thursday, citing medical sources in the enclave.
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