Thank you @YetAnotherSpartacus for posting that.
The NYT has now published an article about the Hamas tunnels so that's finally going mainstream too. Paywalled unfortunately but the tweet contains quite a lot of information:
"The newspaper reported it had seen a "2022 document showed Hamas budgeted $1 million on the tunnel doors, underground workshops and other expenses in Khan Younis." They also saw, "a 2015 report indicated that Hamas had spent more than $3 million on tunnels throughout the Gaza Strip, including many built under civilian infrastructure and sensitive locations such as schools and hospitals."
Reporters were taken on Jan. 8 "to see three tunnel shafts in central Gaza — one inside a one-story farm building on the outskirts of Bureij, the second inside a civilian steelworks on the edge of Maghazi and a third inside a shed near the steelworks."
The NYT also reported, seeing a tunnel that "lead to a nearby shed made from corrugated iron. The journalists were escorted to that shed, where they saw 10 large rockets that were roughly three yards long and painted olive green. The rockets were contained in long oblong cages, possibly used to transport them. The logo of the Qassam brigades, the military wing of Hamas, was stuck to a wall."
Meanwhile, in a one-story farm building in Bureij, reporters saw "a shaft had been hidden behind a locked door, which had been blown off its hinges. The journalists were again not allowed to enter the tunnel.
Outside, roughly 100 yards away, military bulldozers appeared to have unearthed part of the tunnel leading from the farm building. It was roughly five yards below the surface, arched in shape and wide enough for one person to pass comfortably."
An Israeli official told the NYT: "Whenever the Israeli military finds a school, a hospital or a mosque, soldiers know they can expect to locate an underground tunnel system beneath them."
https://twitter.com/academic_la/status/1747472774191571006