Preview: NBC News gets first-hand look inside the ‘largest Hamas tunnel’ discovered by IDF



Israel says it found one of the largest Hamas tunnels, just a ten-minute walk from the Israel-Gaza border. While embedded with the Israeli Defense Forces, NBC News Foreign Correspondent Josh Lederman was given a first-hand look at Hamas’ underground infrastructure.

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  1. Definitely Hamas wanted to use this tunnel as a resort

  2. Literally you showed nothing that was indicated in the thumbnail

    The Netanyahu Broadcasting Company at work again

  3. tunnel was made for civilian welfare and storage of explosives arms ammunition for peaceful purposes.

    of course it was for military terror use. How much more rabidly stupid and idiotic can you be in your pronouncements?

  4. Israel made that – stop the propaganda and stop believing Israel which brought uncounted lies from last 75 years which r always fake and created by IDF mostly and without proofs

  5. Ukraine is one of the countries we’re Muslim investment is. Muslims from the Middle East own Ukrainian companies. From Ontario to Lviv to Odessa and Mariupol before their evil industries were destroyed. Azov vacationed in Turkey for a reason. Azov which is a neoNaxi organization is actually Muslim as well. That’s why released terrorists from Azov vacationed in Turkey. All that wiring from Ukraine 🇺🇦. The same with metal structures. Ahmetov is Muslim first. Ukrainian- second. His products won’t sell in Singapore or Japan but good enough to exploit the United Nations organization and deal with shady states such as the Gaza Strip. Ukrainian neoNazi Muslim regiment “Azov “ not only was involved in that but was involved in other projects.

  6. AIPAC is the biggest internal threat to the US.

    They are forcing American politicians to redirect billions of hard earned US tax dollars towards their masters in Israel.

    Instead of using these billions of dollars on American schools, security and infrastructure, they’re going towards Israel’s wars and genocide of others.

    To make things worse, it’s also increases security threats to US interests globally.

  7. really? after dozens fake news from lDF and Netanyahu zionist government, who believes in another "Hamas tunels" ???

  8. DNBC News theres no use for partisan corp media in America. Might work in communist countries but not here. isnt the sleazey msnbc an affiliate of yours?

  9. Imagine when Human Rights Watch, Doctors without Borders, Save the Children, Amnesty International, the UN, UNICEF and even the Pope are against you. And you still magically think that you're in the right.

  10. EU,UN &others stop funding for terrorists! God defend israel!
    ISRAEL is not alone!

  11. IDF🇮🇱♥️♥️♥️♥️

  12. Why do government propaganda media outlets always get the first hand at funnelling Americas savings overseas? Where did Americas future go Joe?

  13. Its not hamas (its Palestinian military)

    It's not Israel (it's Palestine)

    It's not Nazareth (it's Al Nasra)

    It's not Acre (it's Akka)

    It's not Beit She' an (it's Bisan)

    It's not Tel Aviv Yafo (it's Yaffa)

    It's not Jaffa, (it's Yaffa)

    It's not Hebron (it's Al Khalil)

    It's not Jerusalem (it's Al Quds)

    It's not Jericho (it's Arecha)

    It's not Lod (it's al-Lydd)

    It's not Bethlehem (it's Bayt Lahm)

    It's not the Negev (it's al-Naqab)

    It's not Beer Sheva, (it's Bir As-Saba')

    It's not Tiberias, (it's Tabariyya)

    It's not Gush Halav, (its Al-Jish)

  14. Invite BBC, Al Jazeera, Hindustan and other channels for the tour.

  15. Israel claims to have found the biggest tunnel about a dozen times.I guess its tough to deal with tunnels that can grow by themselves.

  16. He really tried to justify the evil

  17. "NBC CAN'T VERIFY IF IT WAS USED FOR MILITARY PURPOSES"…???? Are you blind, nuts, or complicit???? WHAT OTHER PURPOSE WOULD IT BE THERE FOR, dimwit? Oh yeah… It's NBC. Can't rule out complicit.

  18. Where are the tunnels and the command centers under the hospitals they destroyed? Bunch of freaking liars and killers.

  19. What’s the difference between NBC news reports and Netanyahu’s ? Nothing.

  20. The irony is deafening in the halls of United States Holocaust Memorial Museum as Israel pursues the extermination of the Palestinian people and Jews around the world celebrate. Shameful example of humanity.

  21. Ukraine not only owns technologies without having a state. Ukraine agreed to store nuclear waste and can’t guarantee anything . Ukraine so antisemitic that a million of Ukrainian Jews ( not to be confused with those oligarchs) left Ukraine 🇺🇦 and it is a democracy? Ukraine while inherited Soviet technologies failed with state. That’s very dangerous. Those tunnels I believe wouldn’t be possible without Ukraine. Ukraine is the country that agreed to store nuclear waste without guarantees that it won’t end up in terrorist hands. Palestinians literally killed Ukrainians who lived in the Gaza Strip. American rockets leave no trace. Soviet ones like the one Russian Federation uses smoke is the same as those fired on October 7th

  22. If my neighbour control my life..yes I built a tunnel! Happen in Vietnam war too.

  23. Invite the UN cheif too. He seriously needs to visit that 😂😂

  24. NBC, "we can't independently verify how long these tunnels have been there or if they were used by Hamas" How stupid is that? They were invited into these tunnels to verify that they really DO exist, and it's plain to most people how these were used. C'mon… get real!!! What do you THINK they were used for? Did you verify the number of deaths reported by HAMAS before broadcasting it?

  25. Pro-Hamas protesters funded tunnels, a snare for the civilized people.

  26. Listed as a separate crime under Article 3 of the UN Genocide Convention is “complicity in genocide”, of which the US is 100% guilty. The Center for Constitutional Rights has filed a legal complaint in a California District Court against US President Joe Biden, Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, for their complicity in Israel’s genocide.

    “This unfolding genocide of the Palestinian people in Gaza has so far been made possible because of the unconditional support given” to Israel by the US in breach of its “responsibilities under customary international law…to prevent, and not further, genocide,” states the complaint.

    The US, which is Israel’s largest provider of military, economic, financial, political assistance and political cover, has the ability to use its considerable influence and unique position to take all measures to stop Israel’s genocide. Instead the US has done exactly the opposite. Biden, Blinken and Austin have pledged and continue to pledge all support to Israel. They have rushed military support, ammunition, precision-guided munitions, 2,000-pound bunker bombs, and they’ve been flying drones overhead. US military advisers also have been present in Israel’s war cabinet sessions.

    The US is Israel’s biggest financial and military backer. In addition to the annual 3.8 billion dollars it hands out to Israel every year, it is now coughing up an additional 14.5 billion dollars, without any conditions. US officials have reiterated in multiple press conferences that “there are no red lines or conditions for these weapons”.

    The Washington Post reported that Israel has dropped more than 22,000  US-supplied bombs on Gaza within the first month and a half of the war. This amounts to almost one US bomb per every 100 of the 2.3 million Palestinians who are practically imprisoned in the 365 sq. km strip of land that Israel has held under siege for 17 years.

  27. And The letter of the day kids is p for Propaganda can you say Propaganda kids
    And nobody likes using Propaganda like the us intelligent agency kids. Iraq .Syria Iran Ukraine. And now Gaza .you can thank the us intelligent agency for misinformation and Deceit . but i don't watch mainstream Media i watch redacted where the truth is Told.

  28. Most of the tunnels the IDF will show us, will be built by Israel itself, just like Israel has built all the facilities underneath al-Shifa, Israel expanded the hospital complex, and in the 1980s, gave it a major overhaul, with Israeli architects. Along with the medical facilities, the project reportedly saw the construction of “a secure underground operating room and tunnel network” underneath the Hospital’s Building Number 2 in 1983, with a large “underground concrete floor” constructed underneath the facility during the same period. Other reports indicated that the hardened underground facilities were used to house the hospital’s laundry and “various administrative” offices. The Israeli architects had previous experience with underground military facilities. Hamas reportedly knew about the hospital complex’s hidden underground fortified areas. An Israeli contractor “hired Hamas as a security company” for the hospital (remember that Hamas was created by the Mossad). As for the potential use of the underground facilities by Hamas after Israel’s withdrawal from Gaza in 2005, a 2009 report in Haaretz citing Palestinian sources indicated that the militant group’s leaders never hide in one place, but spread out and constantly change locations using an elaborate network of tunnels. None of the Israeli reporting on the hospital complex's construction shows photos of its reported fortified basement areas, and reporters covering Israeli attacks on or near the hospital during Israel’s wars with Hamas in 2008-2009, 2012, 2014 and 2023 have yet to present any direct proof of Hamas’ use of the underground facilities built by the Israelis.

  29. They air footage that they admit they cannot verify in any way. We have no idea where the tunnels are, what they're for, or who built them. All we know is that they appear to be tunnels. Stupid.

  30. They brought everything upon themselves in Gaza. They are all terrorists

  31. What Benjamin Netanyahu & Joe Biden are doing in Gaza to the Palestinian civilian population are called ethnic cleansing, starvation, offensive biological warfare, torture, domicide and genocide which are all war crimes and crimes against humanity, committed by Israel and the United States. This brutal slaughtering of innocent people serves no military purpose whatsoever:

    1. Israel deliberately kills enormous numbers of innocent civilians: more than 20,424 Palestinians were killed and more than 54,036 others were wounded as a result of Israeli airstrikes of whom 50% are children and 20% women. Approximately an additional 8,000 corpses are still buried underneath the rubble.

    2. Israel is deliberately starving the desperate Palestinian population by severely limiting the amount of food, fuel, medicine and water that is allowed to be transported into Gaza. Famine and infectious diseases will eventually lead to many more victims than the Israeli carpet-bombings.

    3. Israeli leaders talk in  shocking terms about what they would like to do with the "human animals" in Gaza, especially considering that some of these leaders also talk incessantly about the horrors of the Holocaust, while at the same time turning Gaza into Auschwitz 2.0. 

    4. Israel is not only committing genocide by indiscriminately killing and starving the Palestinian people, it also commits domicide by systematically destroying their homes and critical infrastructure. Including mosques, schools, cultural heritage sites, libraries, key government buildings and hospitals, in order to turn Gaza into an uninhabitable piece of wasteland.

    5. Israel not only terrorizes, unlawful imprisons, tortures and kills vast numbers of Palestinians, it also publicly humiliates many innocent Palestinian men who have been captured by the IDF during routine house searches.

    6. Although the Israelis are carrying out the massacres, warcrimes, crimes against humanity, domicide, ethnic cleansing and genocide, they could never have done so without the full support of president Joe "The Zionist"  Biden.

    7. While most attention is now focused on Gaza, it is important not to lose sight of what is happening in the West Bank at the same time. Israeli settlers, working closely with the IDF, continue to murder innocent Palestinians, to steal even more Palestinian land in favor of the Yinon-plan.

  32. 📽️As an Israeli citizen and lawyer, I demand that Netanyahu, the leaders of the right-wing extremist parties, Ben Gvir and his associates be tried at the International Criminal Court as well as Biden.