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IDF releases video from Hamas tunnel under Gaza hospital where Muhammad Sinwar was killed
Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian is The Times of Israel's military correspondent
The IDF publishes footage showing a Hamas tunnel beneath the European Hospital in southern Gaza’s Khan Younis, where the terror group’s leader, Muhammad Sinwar, was killed in a strike on May 13.
In a special operation carried out by the military and Shin Bet, troops reached the underground facility in recent days, where they located the bodies of several terror operatives, the IDF says.
The remains are still being identified, though the military believes that among them is the body of Sinwar.
The military says the tunnel featured command and control rooms, weapons, and other intelligence materials.
“Throughout the war, the IDF repeatedly exposed the use of hospitals across the Gaza Strip by the Hamas terror organization for terror activity and as hiding places for senior members of Hamas’s military wing,” the military says.
The IDF says the tunnel it reached “is located directly beneath the European Hospital in Khan Younis and was also built by Hamas.”
The strike on May 13 also killed Muhammad Shabana, commander of the terror group’s Rafah Brigade, and Mahdi Quara, commander of the South Khan Younis Battalion.
A Hamas tunnel underneath the European Hospital in southern Gaza’s Khan Younis, where Hamas leader Muhammad Sinwar was killed, in a video published by the IDF on June 7, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)
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