in an elaborate campaign, the IDF presented its evidence that a HAMAS data center was found just below UNRWA HQ in Gaza City. They released a series of videos, and the Israeli Foreign Ministry wished good luck refuting this unbeatable evidence.
After the UNRWA HQ has been besieged for weeks, this new discovery is indeed somewhat surprising, especially since plenty of time has passed to prepare everything thoroughly.
Finally, the IDF organized a tour for selected journalists to UNRWA HQ (31.512505° 34.444301°).
Finally, the IDF organized a tour for selected journalists to UNRWA HQ (31.512505° 34.444301°).
What they were presented with there in the courtyard was a hole. The IDF had drilled this hole to prove that a HAMAS data center was located just below UNRWA HQ.
Drilled? So there was no entrance or exit through which one could have entered the tunnel from UNRWA HQ.
Drilled? So there was no entrance or exit through which one could have entered the tunnel from UNRWA HQ.
Journalists were also not allowed to enter the HAMAS data center through this hole. Instead, the journalists were shown a video and allowed to film the reflective screen of the Solo-Pro Mini-Cam with their mobile phones.
(Of course, everything had to be submitted to and approved by the Israeli military before any of it could be published.)
Allegedly, a drone was lowered into the drilled hole. In fact, the SoloPro-MiniReel is a sanitary camera on a cable. So the camera wasn't guided...
Allegedly, a drone was lowered into the drilled hole. In fact, the SoloPro-MiniReel is a sanitary camera on a cable. So the camera wasn't guided...
...through the data center by a drone, but by the hand of a soldier.
Likely the unsuspecting journalists on the genocide PR tour were shown a video that had been recorded beforehand. And this video on a small reflective screen probably did not contain ...
Likely the unsuspecting journalists on the genocide PR tour were shown a video that had been recorded beforehand. And this video on a small reflective screen probably did not contain ...
...the crucial transition from the drilled hole to the data center, nor did any of the videos released by Israel. These videos cut from a battery room directly to the interior view of the pipe without transition.
Of course, you also have to wonder how a several meters long steel pipe keeps its own weight floating in the air without touching the ground, so that a soldier can go somewhere from inside the pipe with the toilet camera. However...
It should be noted that so far there is no evidence that the hole drilled by the IDF leads anywhere except into the depths, and that the journalists were apparently only shown a prepared video.
From this video screening, the PR tour drove the journalists 350 meters north. There, the IDF had excavated a tremendous crater about 20 meters deep, at the bottom of which the entrance to a tunnel was found.
According to the IDF map, this entrance is located in the northern corner of the schoolyard of the UNRWA Al-Rimal school. The satellite image generously outlines an entire neighborhood as a school, while...
... GoogleEarth refers to the special school complex as "Al-Zaytoun Preparatory Boys School" (31.514629° 34.442629°). The Al Rimal School is adjacent to the northeast of it.
The crater is also not on the school grounds, but on a traffic island northwest of it, while the tunnel runs almost parallel to the school. The camera in the photo is looking in the direction of the UNRWA compound and it is obvious that the tunnel does not run in that direction.
How the IDF knew that there was a tunnel 20m below the traffic island is a moot point. Why they had to dig an immense crater in weeks of preparation for the PR tour is just as much a mystery. Crucially, the tunnel does not lead towards the school and not towards UNRWA HQ.
Nor is there a straight line between the drilled hole and this traffic island that leads under the UNRWA HQ building.
In this context, it is interesting to listen to the exact wording of the German ARD Tagesschau (the major News program in Germany):
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In short, Sophie von der Tann (ARD Tagesschau) says the following:
1. the entrance was not on the school grounds
2. the IDF claims to be below the school
3. IDF claims Hamas uses schoolchildren as human shields
...
1. the entrance was not on the school grounds
2. the IDF claims to be below the school
3. IDF claims Hamas uses schoolchildren as human shields
...
4. the IDF claims that there is a Hamas intelligence headquarters under UNRWA HQ
5. the ARD cannot verify it
6. UNRWA cannot comment on this, saying that they do not know anything about the tunnel. However, indications of tunnels have always been investigated.
5. the ARD cannot verify it
6. UNRWA cannot comment on this, saying that they do not know anything about the tunnel. However, indications of tunnels have always been investigated.
The sixth point can be confirmed with a quick Google search, and according to UNRWA chief Philippe Lazzarini, UNRWA personnel had already vacated the HQ on October 12 on the orders of the Israeli military.
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Points 4 and 5 say that those PR tours for journalists apparently did not go through the tunnel to the alleged intelligence headquarters, but had to rely on the information provided by the IDF, as well as on the video from the toilet camera.
But where are they here, if not in the Hamas data center? We'll get to that in a moment.
Point 3 is extremely questionable, since Hamas would only be endangered under the most severe war conditions at a depth of 20 meters, if at all. There will be no children in school during these times, so the human shield will not work if the worst comes to the worst.
So the IDF argument takes itself to the point of absurdity.
Point 2 is an outright lie, as we noted above. And point 1 confirms that the satellite map published by the IDF is, to put it nicely, misleading.
Point 2 is an outright lie, as we noted above. And point 1 confirms that the satellite map published by the IDF is, to put it nicely, misleading.
If you try to find out where the 20-meter-deep tunnel entrance leads, the videos released by the IDF usually show a soldier climbing through a welded protective door. But that door isn't there.
In other videos, a cheerful journalist climbs into the tunnel without a safety door /CUT/ apparently looking straight into a bright room at the far end. Note the thick cables on the right side of the tunnel.
In variant 3, another journalist climbs into the tunnel, follows it straight ahead and also arrives at a brighter place, but without cables on the right wall. And he didn't have to climb through a protective door either.
After a cut in which the wall changes from the rough vertical pattern of the Hamas tunnel concrete elements into narrow horizontal lines, he suddenly finds himself in the battery room.
And this is the same battery room that the IDF allegedly entered through the drilled hole with the toilet camera, even in the same direction.
The bright room with the cables on the right is probability just this fork in the road, which leads to the left into a closed room and to the right into a further tunnel.
This means that this further tunnel probably runs under the road to the southwest and not at all to UNRWA HQ to the southeast.
Back to the question of where the journalist of the ARD Tagesschau apparently ended up because, as she says in the commentary, she did not see the alleged intelligence headquarters at the other end of the tunnel.
So, where is she?
So, where is she?
She is in a room where Hamas has allegedly cut off all the cables coming from above. And all these cables, according to the IDF, were previously connected to the small box on the wall, which seems absurd per se.
The column of the wall is also striking. So we are in a building and no longer in a tunnel system.
In short, we are in the basement of the UNRWA building, and what we are shown is the UNRWA data center in the basement of the same building. Why Hamas would cut all the cables here remains a mystery, but a Reuters video sheds a little more light on the matter.
The IDF's claim is that the cables that disappear into the ground there go directly to the Hamas intelligence center and connect that intelligence center to the UNRWA servers.
However, unsuspecting journalists are not told that in data centers of a large organization such as UNRWA, the cables are usually laid under the floor.
And since no one among the journalists has seen the data center, we are now in the realm of fantasy at the latest.
This fantastic intel center is mixed in various wild video potpourris with, for example, senior/disabled scooters, as if Hamas were rolling through the narrow tunnels at a snail's pace. This, too, is medical material, presumably in the basement of UNRWA.
And that, in turn, means that a curved ceiling is not synonymous with "Hamas tunnel".
In another video potpourri, an IDF soldier finds a single mortar shell on the shelf among a spray, a USB cable, an old phone and paperwork.
That's the way they do it! C'mon, it's Hamas!
In another video potpourri, an IDF soldier finds a single mortar shell on the shelf among a spray, a USB cable, an old phone and paperwork.
That's the way they do it! C'mon, it's Hamas!
In another detached room with antique furniture, the IDF finds a number of weapons, some of them completely rusted. However, the documents of the "terrorists" were apparently blurred, presumably in order not to be able to establish a connection to a completely different incident.
And so the IDF proudly shows us what they have found in UNRWA HQ.
Only a particularly rusted sniper rifle, a "stolen" IDF weapon and a 60mm grenade are on the truck for some reason and not in the display of finds. A rascal who thinks that possibly all weapons came with this vice and only the particularly implausible ones remain on the truck.
Let's summarize:
- The tunnel does not run under the school or in the direction of the UNRWA site.
- A hole drilled by the IDF is supposed to be proof of the existence of a HAMAS intelligence headquarters, although apparently only an edited video was shown ...
- The tunnel does not run under the school or in the direction of the UNRWA site.
- A hole drilled by the IDF is supposed to be proof of the existence of a HAMAS intelligence headquarters, although apparently only an edited video was shown ...
...that connects the pipe to a battery room, which is not under the pipe but in the basement of the UNRWA building.
- The battery room, in turn, presumably buffers the power supply to the UNRWA data center in the same basement of the same HQ building.
- The battery room, in turn, presumably buffers the power supply to the UNRWA data center in the same basement of the same HQ building.
- Again, the connection to a Hamas intelligence center is just a bundle of cables running into the ground, which is standard in any data center.
In other words, so far there is no evidence whatsoever of the existence of that intelligence headquarters. On the contrary, ...
In other words, so far there is no evidence whatsoever of the existence of that intelligence headquarters. On the contrary, ...
...the direction of the tunnel, as far as it can be traced, suggests a deliberate misleading of invited journalists and thus of the world public.
But there is one more video posted by the "Osint613" Twitter account. This account is not so much "Osint" as Israeli Intel, and similar to the Ukrainian nazi kill list Myrotvorets, this account sells a kill card set with Hamas leaders and maintains the "Eliminated" list.
On Feb 6, this account published a video in astonishingly poor quality, which is why this video could just as well be years old and may have been launched from the secret service's drawer. The video was also circulated by DailyMail. The place is commonly referred to as "Gaza".
This server room is accessible via a tunnel with a number of orange cables running along the ceiling. When you enter the server room, the (mostly empty) server cabinets are on the left side. If you compare the two rooms, then the server room with the cut cables is definitely...
...a different room, with different dehumidifiers, different server cabinets, a different back wall and no indication of cables coming through the ceiling. At the same time, there is no bundle of orange cables disappearing into the ground in the UNRWA basement.
The publication of the blurry video without comment is rather disturbing, as the timing is more in line with the planned journalist tour than with the usual breaking news on the IDF Twitter channel, which, as far as I know, did not mention this video at all.
In addition, not only has not a single journalist seen the alleged data center, but Israel has apparently also released prepared press/TV material, so that one can find almost identical reports on various channels, right down to the editing.
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Compare this one:
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All in all, there is no proof of the alleged data center under UNRWA, but I think it is amply proven that Israel once again lied about the direction of the tunnel. So it's an anti-UNRWA propaganda campaign.
And this man stands in the basement of UNRWA HQ and lies:
And this man stands in the basement of UNRWA HQ and lies:
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