Dozens of Hamas terrorists reportedly surrendered to Israeli forces in northern Gaza on Thursday.
The group surrendered after being pushed back by advancing Israeli Defense Forces near Jabaliya, the Times of Israel reports.
Local Channel 13 showed images of the surrender, in which dozens of men appeared lined up on a street, sitting in rows with their hands on their heads.
Many of the men were left naked only in their underwear as IDF troops lined up others to advance further along the closed road.
In one video, Hamas members could be seen in the back of an Israeli military vehicle.
Channel 13 reporter Almog Boker estimated that more than a hundred Hamas fighters surrendered, the largest group to surrender to the IDF since Israel began its incursion into the Palestinian enclave.
Israel’s Kan News, however, reported that the group of men was detained before the IDF could verify whether they were all actually members of Hamas or Palestinian Islamic Jihad.
The New Arab, a Qatari-owned news outlet based in London, alleged that one of the men seen in the images was Diaa Al-Kahlot, one of its correspondents reporting from Gaza.
Hamas leader Osama Hamdan claimed that the people arrested in the video were unarmed civilians who were not affiliated with the terrorist group. The Arabic station Al Araby reports.
The IDF has not yet commented on the arrests in Jabaliya.
The northern Gaza city has seen some of the heaviest fighting in recent days as the IDF raided Hamas’ general security headquarters in the area.
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There, Israeli troops found weapons, equipment and intelligence documents belonging to the terrorist group, officials said.
The operation came after the IDF surrounded the Jabaliya refugee camp, one of the largest in the region that had been besieged by airstrikes and nearby gunfire.
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The United States previously demanded an explanation for why Israel carried out bombings in the camp that reportedly killed dozens.
Israel has defended its attacks near the camp as a means to reach the headquarters in Jabaliya.
More fighting broke out in northern Gaza on Thursday when members of the IDF Border Defense Corps located a group of Hamas fighters approaching Israeli troops.
The terrorists were seen opening fire on the IDF soldiers, and some of the Hamas operatives armed with RPGs.
The Defense Corps unit was able to call in an airstrike that killed all of the Hamas fighters, the IDF said.
After nearly two months of advancing through northern Gaza, the IDF has demolished most of the terrorist infrastructure and has now intensified its incursion into the south, with fighting centered on Khan Younis, the enclave’s second largest city.
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