Israel reveals what Hamas terror base hidden beneath Gaza’s largest hospital looks like: Video shows labyrinth of underground tunnels and war rooms used as headquarters for militant group

Israel has revealed what a Hamas terror base hidden beneath Gaza’s largest hospital looks like, with a video showing a labyrinth of underground tunnels and war rooms used as headquarters for a militant group.

An ‘intelligence-based illustration’ released by the Jewish nation’s military shows a sinister network of corridors and chambers deep beneath the buildings where innocents are treated.

The IDF claims that Shifa Hospital – the largest medical complex in the Gaza Strip – actually houses the terrorist organization’s headquarters.

Photos show armories, storage areas and armed guards patrolling the web of passageways.

In another is a conference room, complete with computers, rugs and leather chairs.

It comes after Israel’s ambassador to the UN said the “only way to destroy Hamas is to drive them out of their tunnels and their underground city of terror.”

A top political adviser to Benjamin Netanyahu warned that Hamas will feel the “wrath of Israel tonight” as the Jewish nation’s warplanes unleash airstrikes of “unprecedented” intensity over all parts of the Gaza Strip and announced it is “expanding” the operations of its ground forces .

Hamas has rejected Israeli claims that it is using hospitals as shields for underground military infrastructure, saying it has “no basis in the truth.”

On social media, the IDF said: ‘The Shifa Hospital is not only the largest hospital in Gaza, but also serves as the main headquarters for Hamas’ terrorist activities.

“Terrorism has no place in a hospital and the IDF will operate to expose any terrorist infrastructure.”

According to one report, the Israelis have unleashed “bunker buster” concussion rockets in an attempt to destroy the extensive Hamas tunnel network under Gaza.

And experts claim the terrorist group has used hospitals and innocent Palestinians as “shields” and used their deaths to further their own cause against Israel.

Colonel Philip Ingram, a former British military intelligence officer, told MailOnline: ‘Israel will particularly target areas where Hamas has concentrated or has military facilities.

“What Hamas is doing now is putting those military facilities in civilian buildings. Hamas wants civilians to die.

‘They want the world to see photos of women and children being pulled from the rubble after an attack.

‘Israel is proportionate to the threat it poses and is doing everything it can to limit the number of civilian casualties as much as possible.

“But because Hamas uses the Palestinian people as a human shield, civilian casualties are not inevitable.”

The Israeli airstrike came with an IDF warning to Palestinian civilians still living in Gaza to move south as quickly as possible, fearing that the long-awaited ground invasion of the enclave could take place within hours.

The bombings, which observers described as much heavier and louder than previous days, coincided with electricity and communications disruptions in much of the besieged enclave.

The IDF said tonight that it was expanding its bombing campaign against Gaza, and was “working vigorously in all dimensions” to achieve its military goals.

Hamas returned fire with a “salvo” of rockets, although it is not known how many of them were absorbed by Israel’s Iron Dome defense system.

The terror group also called on those in the West Bank and the “1948 areas” – a term used by Palestinians to refer to Israel in reference to when it was founded – to take up arms as soon as the ground invasion begins. of Israel begins.

Hamas has reportedly said it holds Israel, the US and Western countries that support Israel “fully responsible for the series of horrific massacres” against the people of Gaza.

It was not clear whether the latest development in the bloodiest conflict between Hamas and Israel was a threat of a full-scale invasion or a larger but similar “probe” to the one launched on Wednesday and Thursday evenings, with troops returning at dawn.