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During a cabinet meeting a week ago, Shin Bet chief Yuval Diskin said senior Hamas officials found refuge in the hospital basement because they know Israel would not target it, due to the patients in the upper floors. Palestinian sources told Haaretz that not all the senior Hamas leaders are hiding in one place.

During a cabinet meeting a week ago, Shin Bet chief Yuval Diskin said senior Hamas officials found refuge in the hospital basement because they know Israel would not target it, due to the patients in the upper floors. Palestinian sources told Haaretz that not all the senior Hamas leaders are hiding in one place.

Rather, they have spread out, and some are constantly changing locations. Some of the bunkers they are using were linked by tunnels Hamas built in recent years.</blockquote></ref><ref>"Underground Warfare," Daphné Richemond-Barak, (Oxford University Press, 2018), [https://books.google.com/books?id=ZBBADwAAQBAJ&pg=PA209&#v=onepage&q=Reap&f=false p. 209].

Rather, they have spread out, and some are constantly changing locations. Some of the bunkers they are using were linked by tunnels Hamas built in recent years.</blockquote></ref><ref name=intllaw>Laurie R. Blank, ‎Gregory P. Noone, "International Law and Armed Conflict: Fundamental Principles and Contemporary Challenges in the Law of War." (Wolters Kluwer; 2nd edition, September 14, 2018), [https://books.google.com/books?id=fmxuDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA627 p. 627].<br>

''Cast Lead... Anthony H. Cordesman, The “Gaza War”: A Strategic Analysis 24 (2009) (describing how Hamas used a mosque to store Grad missiles and Qassam rockets), http://www.csis.org/media/csis/pubs/090202_gaza_war.pdf; Jeffrey Fleishman, Charges Fly in. Battle Over What Happened in Gaza, L.A. Times, Jan. 23, 2009, at A1 (detailing how Hamas used a bunker beneath a hospital as a headquarters).''</ref><ref>"Underground Warfare," Daphné Richemond-Barak, (Oxford University Press, 2018), [https://books.google.com/books?id=ZBBADwAAQBAJ&pg=PA209&#v=onepage&q=Reap&f=false p. 209].

''UNDERGROUND WARFARE IN URBAN AREAS. 

''UNDERGROUND WARFARE IN URBAN AREAS. 

Hamas did not have to dig to reap the benefits of operating underneath the Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City.''</ref><ref>"Mabat - a failed Hamas launch towards Israel from the Shifa hospital complex in Gaza ended today with the deaths of 10 Palestinians."

Hamas did not have to dig to reap the benefits of operating underneath the Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City.''</ref><ref>"Mabat - a failed Hamas launch towards Israel from the Shifa hospital complex in Gaza ended today with the deaths of 10 Palestinians."

* 2009, PBS' statement from a doctor at hospital of Hamas terrorists hiding there;  

* 2009, PBS' statement from a doctor at hospital of Hamas terrorists hiding there;  

*2011 Hamas boasting, bragging of its launching actually showed in its provided images the residential locations where it fired from;

*2011 Hamas boasting, bragging of its launching actually showed in its provided images the residential locations where it fired from;