The Israeli military discovered an underground information processing and communication center of the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas in the Gaza Strip, located under the headquarters of the United Nations Middle East Agency for Palestine Refugees.
What is known about the underground Hamas center under the UN headquarters in Gaza
According to the publication, the center had its own electrical substation, industrial battery power units, as well as living quarters for Palestinian Hamas terrorists.
The Israeli military invited journalists and showed them this center.
The journalists, accompanied by the military, entered the opened tunnel passage and saw with their own eyes a real underground town.
According to the Israeli military, Hamas terrorists used the center for intelligence gathering, information processing and communications.
According to the commander of the 401st Armored Brigade, Colonel Benny Aaron, his unit discovered several caches of weapons directly inside the UNRWA building, while the personnel of the UN headquarters had long been evacuated.
However, the IDF says it has found equipment and documents in some UNRWA offices that indicate "the same offices were also used by Hamas terrorists."
There is no doubt that UNRWA personnel knew that [Hamas] was digging a huge tunnel under them. UNRWA provides cover for Hamas, UNRWA knows exactly what is going on underground, and UNRWA uses its budget to fund some of Hamas' military capabilities, that's for sure, the IDF colonel said.
At the main building of the UN complex, Aaron led reporters to the UNRWA server room, which he said was located directly above Hamas's underground data center.
According to him, separate cables are connected. He showed journalists those that went down to the floor.
At the same time, the UN building also supplied the Hamas terrorist center with electricity.
What is known about the reaction of the UN
The head of UNRWA, Philip Lazzarini, said that the agency allegedly knew nothing about the huge underground complex just below their headquarters.
UNRWA did not know what was under its headquarters in Gaza. UNRWA is a human development and humanitarian organization that lacks military and security expertise and the ability to conduct military inspections of what is or may be under its premises, Lazzarini said.
