The IDF announced that it has located and destroyed three tunnel shafts in the area of Gaza City’s Rantisi Children’s Hospital that connect to underground passages beneath the medical center used by the Hamas terror group, Paralel.Az reports citing The Times of Israel.

The IDF says the operations revealed that the three shafts “are connected by a wide underground network that runs under the hospital, is several kilometers long and leads to strategic points in the heart of Gaza City.”

It says the tunnel at Rantisi was used by Hamas as a command center to manage the fighting against Israel.

One of the shafts, found in a high school adjacent to Rantisi, has an elevator heading down some 20 meters, according to the IDF. Another shaft, found in the home of a commander in Hamas’s naval forces, featured a blast door to prevent troops from entering, it says.

After being investigated, the tunnel network was demolished by combat engineers.