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.