I had an interesting encounter two days ago with a bloke who had worked for 37 years in hospital administration at a major hospital in an Australian city. He said he was puzzled by all the fuss about the tunnels under the al-Shifa hospital in Gaza.
He explained that all major hospitals in Australia have elaborate and extensive tunnel systems and networks under their buildings. I asked him why they had these tunnels and he explained in some detail the various roles they played that were essential to a large hospital’s functioning. You can hear his explanation in the ten minute audio clip below.
The hospital in which he worked in Australia had to link several different hospital buildings and the tunnel network even ran under a major road in order to connect them underground. He said the footage on TV of the tunnels under the al-Shifa hospital was unexceptional, just standard tunnels in any ‘British built’ hospital. (Al-Shifa was originally built by the British).
I recorded him on my mobile phone, elaborating on the many different functions of the hospital tunnels. I’m attaching the audio, which goes for ten minutes.
Perhaps you knew all this already – but I certainly didn’t.
C21st Left 
Yep, here’s explanation by former Israeli Prime Minister showing BBC interviewer Ammanpour surprised by what should be well known about hospitals anywhere.
And here is the outrage against him even mentioning it, despite him still claiming that Hamas was using them as command.
Naturally they did not catch or kill any armed opponents when they closed and occupied the hospital. So they have arrested the hospital director instead.
The current mood in Israel appears to be outright fascist suppression of even mildest discordant note from relentless direct and public incitement of genocide.
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Yes absolutely agree I worked at Royal Adelaide Hospital and they had a tunnel system connecting the Nurses Home to the North Wing and then to the East wing. Our change room was in the North Wing basement so a lot of travel occurred from there. In the tunnels which were more extensive than just where I traveled there were work shops and heavy machinery. I also worked at the Repat which during WW2 prepared a second underground hospital in case bombs started to fly.
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