Inside the child’s bedroom tunnel where Hamas executed six Israeli hostages

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Inside the child’s bedroom tunnel where ****** ********* six ******** hostages

With paintings of Mickey Mouse and Snow White next to the word “Love” scrawled on a white wall, it has all the hallmarks of an ordinary child’s bedroom.

Yet beneath the Disney characters ***** a chamber of horrors where

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by ****** gunmen, according to the ******* Defense Forces (IDF).

On Tuesday, the ******** army released footage of the tunnel in Gaza where it claims the

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were ******* two weeks ago.

Video footage released by the IDF shows a massive tunnel shaft located inside what appeared to be a children’s bedroom in a home in the city of Rafah in southern Gaza.

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The entrance appeared to have been covered by a removable floor. It led to a shaft running 20 metres deep, with four separate ladders to climb down to the main part of the tunnel.

Daniel Hagari, the IDF spokesman, estimated the narrow tunnel to be 120 metres long, 1.7 metres high and one metre wide. It had no rooms, just a single corridor.

A thick iron door separated the last part of the tunnel in which the hostages were kept for weeks, according to ******** estimates.

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In the video, the first items seen behind the iron door are bottles of ******, some kept in a bag.

A ***** has been dug in the ground where a bucket was used as a *******.

A battery charger hangs from the ceiling. On the floor ***** a Koran, women’s clothes, mattresses, AK-47 magazines and a hairbrush.

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Finally, a pool of blood is seen on the floor, showing where, according to the IDF, the hostages were *********.

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The IDF also said tuna cans, energy bars and a chessboard were found inside the tunnel.

Throughout the war in Gaza, ******** troops have been uncovering

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.

As well as homes, they have been embedded under schools, hospitals, apartments, mosques and UN facilities.

Many of the

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are believed to be kept in tunnels similar to the one exposed on Tuesday.

Between two and six terrorists were guarding the hostages, according to Mr Hagari.

“Why ******* them in a tunnel after they survived 11 months?” Mr Hagari asks in the video where he conducts a tour of the inside of the tunnel.

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A graphic created by the IDF showing the ****** tunnel network – IDF

The IDF believes two terrorists ********* the six hostages on Aug 29 before making their escape from the tunnel.

The bodies of Carmel Gat, 40, Eden Yerushalmi, 24, Hersh Goldberg-Polin, 23, Alex Lobanov, 32, Almog Sarusi, 27, and Ori Danino, 25, were discovered by ******** forces the following day.

Mr Hagari said they were held in “horrific” conditions.

Mrs Yerushalmi weighed just 36kg (five-and-a-half stone), indicating that she was starved, a form of ******** other hostages have testified to after their release or rescue from captivity in Gaza.

Other hostages who made it out alive have revealed they were ********* abused, beaten and psychologically tortured.

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The six hostages ******* by ****** in southern Gaza: (Top row from left) Hersh Goldberg-Polin, Ori Danino, Eden Yerushalmi, and (Bottom row from left) Almog Sarusi, Alexander Lobanov and Carmel Gat – Reuters

After the IDF released the footage from the tunnel, the Hostages Families Forum issued a statement saying the dry blood stains “leave no doubt as for the cruelty of their last moments”.

The six hostages “suffered until their last breath” and “fought for their lives until their ******”, the *******-based campaign group said.

“Hungry, exhausted, tortured, they cling to a single hope: that we will continue fighting for their freedom,” the forum added, before calling on the ******** government to reach

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with ******.

“They trust us to bring them home. Every day in captivity is eternity. Every day that passes is a danger to their lives, hanging by a thread, at the mercy of terrorists capable of the worst ******* against humanity… A deal must be signed NOW!”

Avigdor Lieberman, the former defence minister, and Yisrael Beiteinu, the leader of the opposition party, also reacted strongly to the video, calling for an immediate halt to humanitarian aid into Gaza.

“No food, no water, no cigarettes, no fuel and no goods,” Mr Lieberman said, accusing ****** of using the same methods to ***** Jews as the Nazis.

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