December 7–Dozens of Hamas terrorists surrendered to Israeli forces in northern Gaza Thursday.
The group turned themselves in after being pushed back by the advancing Israel Defense Forces near Jabaliya.
Local Channel 13 showed images of the surrender, which featured dozens of men lined up on a street, sitting in rows with their hands over their heads.
In one clip, the 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 turned themselves in, 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 were detained before the IDF could verify if they were all in fact members of Hamas or Palestinian Islamic Jihad.
The northern Gaza city has seen some of the most intense fighting in recent days as the IDF raided Hamas’ security headquarters in the area.
Hamas members are seen in the back of an Israeli military vehicle.
There, Israeli troops found weapons, equipment and intelligence documents belonging to the terrorist group, officials said.
The operation came after the IDF encircled the Jabaliya refugee camp, one of the largest in the region that had been besieged by nearby airstrikes and gunfire.
Israel has defended its attacks near the camp as a means to reach the headquarters in Jabaliya.
Thursday saw further fighting in northern Gaza as members of the IDF’s Border Defense Corps located a group of Hamas fighters approaching Israeli troops.
The terrorists were seen opening fire at the IDF soldiers, with some of the Hamas operatives armed with RPGs.
The Defense Corps unit was able to call in an airstrike that killed all the Hamas fighters, the IDF said.
After two months of advancing across northern Gaza, the IDF has demolished a majority of the terrorist infrastructure and has now ramped up incursion into the south, with fighting focused on Khan Younis, the enclave’s second largest city.
