In its recent report alleging Israeli war crimes in the May fighting with Hamas in Gaza, Human Rights Watch (see analysis here) repeatedly questioned Israel’s claims that the IDF was targeting Hamas tunnels and underground command centers, saying that HRW’s investigators could find no trace of these supposed tunnels.
But now comes a report from Gal Berger, the Palestinian affairs reporter for Israel’s KAN public television network, about a United Nations school in Gaza City that is known to have a Hamas tunnel underneath it. When UN staffers in Gaza brought in their own experts to check on the school’s safety, Hamas police arrived on the scene, forced the UN experts to leave and sealed off the site. (This has now been confirmed by UNRWA — see update below.)
Did Hamas have something to hide? And does Human Rights Watch now have something to hide? You be the judge.
Here are Berger’s tweets about the incident: