IDF says they captured 100 Hamas terrorists in north Gaza

A group of more than 100 Hamas terrorists were stripped to their underwear by Israeli Defense Forces after surrendering their weapons in the northern part of the Gaza Strip Saturday, according to a video posted by an Israeli broadcaster.

N12 News shared the clip of the men standing in line across a rubble-strewn street in Jabaliya as IDF soldiers trained automatic weapons on them and ordered them to drop their own weapons across the street. One of the men gingerly crossed the street, his automatic weapon held over his head, before dumping into a pile of seized arms.

“In Shejaiya and Jabaliya, terrorists who surrendered handed over weapons and equipment,” said IDF spokesman Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari Saturday, the Times of Israel reported, adding that many of the men told Israeli forces that Hamas leadership underground “does not care about the public in Gaza who are above ground.”

Hagari said that interrogations of the captured operatives already provided valuable intelligence for the Israeli military and “aids us in operational activities.”

Meanwhile, the Kan public broadcaster reported Saturday that Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar fled northern Gaza at the beginning of the fighting in October by hiding in a humanitarian convoy heading southward.

Sinwar escaped Gaza City and headed toward south Gaza’s Khan Younis in a vehicle that provided “humanitarian cover,” the report said, adding that more precise details of the vehicle are barred from publication at this point.

The report adds that Israel’s assessment is that Sinwar is still in Khan Younis, or rather in one of the tunnels that run underneath it.

Earlier in the day, the IDF released video of their troops of the Nahal Infantry Brigade’s 931st Battalion battling Hamas in northern Gaza.

“The terrorists prepared an ambush in the area and were prepared to attack our forces when they would have moved through the main road,” the IDF said in a statement. “The forces arrived through one of the alleys, behind the enemy, surprised them and fired at the terrorists.”

The IDF said the Hamas gunmen opened fire at the troops and hurled grenades.

On Thursday, the IDF released footage of dozens of Hamas terrorists who had surrendered to Israeli troops

Images of the surrender featured dozens of men sitting in rows with their hands over their heads. 

As in the video Saturday, many of the men were wearing only their undershorts as the IDF troops lined up others to proceed farther down the closed-off road.  

In one clip, the Hamas terrorists could be seen crowded in the back of an Israeli military vehicle.