Tunnels found under UN agency headquarters in Gaza City: Israeli army
Israel’s military says it has discovered tunnels beneath the headquarters of the UN Palestinian refugee agency in Gaza City that were being used by Hamas militants as an electricity supply chamber.
Israeli Army Lieutenant Colonel Ido said, “This is the power room, you can see batteries all around and electrical equipment on the walls, everything is powered by these. They get electricity supply from these tunnels.”
However, Juliet Touma, communications director for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNWRA), said the agency was unaware of what lay beneath the headquarters building. Touma said that he had visited the headquarters several times and had not found out about the electrical room.
In a statement, Touma said UNWRA had conducted a routine quarterly inspection of the facility in September. “UNRWA is a human development and humanitarian organization that has neither the military and security expertise, nor the capacity to conduct military oversight of what is or could be within its premises,” the statement said.
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