Hamas used the last resting place of hundreds of British soldiers in Gaza to store weaponry for its war with Israel, The Mail on Sunday can reveal.
The Israel Defence Forces (IDF) said in August it had recovered a missile launcher from a graveyard in Daraj Tuffah in Gaza City.
But the IDF did not say it was the Commonwealth Gaza War Cemetery, known locally as the British War Cemetery.
The weapons were found after the IDF destroyed a Hamas supply tunnel near the graveyard.
Bombing the tunnel damaged the graveyard, with satellite footage showing debris blasted into the cemetery at two points.
The MoS has learned that a second Commonwealth graveyard at Deir El Belah in Gaza has also been damaged.
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission said it was 'deeply concerned', and added that both cemeteries appeared to have 'sustained significant damage' to headstones, memorials, boundary walls, staff facilities and storage areas.
The commission said some 10 per cent of headstones at Deir El Belah had been damaged.
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