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The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has uncovered a network of tunnels running underneath Gaza City from a property allegedly owned by Hamas chief Yahya Sinwar.

Footage released by the Israeli army shows a spiral staircase in a tunnel shaft leading down to an underground corridor.

Lieutenant Colonel Peter Lerner, the IDF spokesperson, told reporters that soldiers found the tunnels after securing a central area of the city in recent days.

The tunnels are kitted out with surveillance cameras, heavy blast doors and electricity, the IDF videos showed.

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