Voices from the Tunnels: inside the secret London exhibition showing what life is like for the Hamas hostages

Underground in a secret location in East London this week, there’s a pop-up exhibition unlike any other. Voices from the Tunnel tries to give a sense of conditions for the roughly 130 hostages still held in Gaza by Hamas, over 100 days since the October 7 attacks.

It’s organised by the UK-based civilian group the 7/10 Human Chain Project, who have kept the location private for security reasons. That means the public cannot visit – instead, politicians, academics, influencers and journalists have been invited in the hope that they will talk about it.

As I enter the ruined building, a guide asks me to close my eyes and count for 100 seconds. The idea is to start to comprehend the length of a seemingly interminable 100 days in captivity. I’m led past a scooter like the one used to take a hostage back to , and then