IDF publishes footage of Hamas tunnel shaft located inside abandoned school in northern Gaza

The IDF publishes footage recovered from the camera of a Hamas operative, showing armed members of the terror group operating in an abandoned elementary school in the northern Gaza’s Beit Hanoun.

Within the school compound, as the footage shows, is an apparent tunnel shaft that the operatives are seen entering. According to the IDF, the shaft leads to a Hamas tunnel that is part of a wider underground network in Beit Hanoun.

This undated video released by the IDF on November 20, 2025, shows Hamas gunmen operating in a school in northern Gaza’s Beit Hanoun. (Israel Defense Forces)

The IDF says Hamas built a wide tunnel network under Beit Hanoun, which crosses the entire town and runs underneath homes and other civilian sites.

In addition, the military says that “thousands of structures above ground were identified as having been used by the Hamas terror organization as weapons storage facilities, firing positions, and command centers for terrorists.”

Nearly every structure in Beit Hanoun was razed by the IDF during its ground operations against Hamas in the past two years. The IDF says it operated in the town “systematically and thoroughly, and neutralized the terror infrastructure that posed a direct threat to the residents of the western Negev.”