JERUSALEM: The Israeli military said on Sunday it had uncovered a tunnel under Gaza's Al-Shifa Hospital that stretched 55 meters beneath the war-torn complex where troops have been conducting a major operation.

"IDF troops exposed a 55-meter-long terror tunnel 10 meters deep underneath the Shifa Hospital complex," which ran under the hospital and ended at a blast door, an army statement said, using the acronym of the Israel Defense Forces, the military's formal name.

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