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<\/p>\nSHOCKING new video appears to show shirtless Hamas fighters surrendering to Israeli forces amid continued fighting in Gaza.<\/p>\n
The clip shows a group of men stripped to their underwear, holding guns and ID cards above their heads before piling them together on the ground.<\/p>\n
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Fighting has intensified in Gaza over recent days as Israeli forces round up more terror suspects in the war-torn enclave.<\/p>\n
The IDF have vowed to interrogate anyone who surrenders with links to Hamas, but have yet to reveal how many militants have been captured so far.<\/p>\n
The chilling video, released by Israeli media, shows dozens of captured, near-naked men next to a military tank.<\/p>\n
As they wave what appears to be ID cards above their heads, a voice can be heard giving commands over a loudspeaker from behind the camera.<\/p>\n
One man holding a rifle above his head walks gingerly towards a pile of weapons and surrenders his own as the man, possibly an IDF soldier, shouts "Slowly, slowly."<\/p>\n He has been described by the Times of Israel as an "apparent Hamas operative".<\/p>\n Israel has not confirmed whether the men in the clip are Hamas terrorists, but government spokesperson Eylon Levy has said \u201cincreasing numbers\u201d of Hamas fighters are surrendering.<\/p>\n It claims fighters have been turning themselves in close to the heavily bombed Shajaiya and Jabaliya neighbourhoods in northern Gaza.<\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n And desperate Palestinian residents are reportedly turning on Hamas, slamming the leader dubbed "Gaza's Bin Laden" as having "killed his own people".<\/p>\n IDF forces have said they are closing in on the terror chief Yahya Sinwar, who they believe is holed up underground in the southern city of Khan Younis.<\/p>\n Sinwar, 61, is understood to be\u00a0the "mastermind" behind the October 7 attacks, which saw the terror group\u00a0slaughter 1,200 men, women, and children.<\/p>\n In a tell-all interview with The Sun, IDF spokesman Lieutenant Colonel\u00a0Peter\u00a0Lerner\u00a0said he is "at the top" of their "kill list".<\/p>\n Israeli PM Netanyahu said on Sunday that it is now the "beginning of the end" for Hamas.<\/p>\n He said: "I say to the Hamas terrorists – it\u2019s over. Don\u2019t die for [Yahya] Sinwar. Surrender now.<\/p>\n "In the past few days, dozens of Hamas terrorists have surrendered to our forces. They are laying down their weapons and handing themselves over to our heroic fighters."<\/p>\n Just days ago further chilling footage appeared to show over 100 Hamas terror suspects forced to sit in the middle of the street, stripped, bound and blindfolded.<\/p>\n In the background of the video,\u00a0Israeli\u00a0officers can be seen holding large weapons and keeping a close eye on the men – believed to be mainly\u00a0Palestinians.<\/p>\n Hamas claimed they were unarmed, innocent civilians but this has not been verified.<\/p>\n Israeli troops had rounded up the men to check if any of them had links to Hamas before taking them to an unknown location, according to The New Arab.<\/p>\n As campaigners and relatives of the trapped Israeli hostages beg for their release, Hamas has vowed that none will leave Gaza alive unless their demands are met. <\/p>\n And the terror group even vowed to carry out "additional terror attacks" against Israeli civilians according to the US Institute for the Study of War.<\/p>\n Abu Obeida, a spokesman for the armed wing of Hamas, said on Sunday: "Neither the fascist enemy and its arrogant leadership, nor its supporters can take their prisoners alive without an exchange and negotiation and meeting the demands of the resistance."<\/p>\n Palestinian civilians have been left fleeing for their lives as Israel continues its attempts to destroy Hamas after the terror group massacred 1,200 civilians on October 7.<\/p>\n Families living in Gaza are once again caught in the brutal crossfire following the temporary ceasefire, with regular accusations that the terrorists are attempting to use them as \u201chuman shields\u201d.<\/p>\n Much of the northern part of the strip has been turned into a devastated war zone – with ruined buildings, dwindling supplies and horrific suffering for Gaza\u2019s people.<\/p>\n The Red Cross estimates that over 1.5 million civilians have been forced to flee south amid the Israeli onslaught from land, air and sea.<\/p>\n Figures for the death toll remain unverified – but Hamas\u2019 health officials claim more than 18,000 civilians, including more than 4,500 children have been killed.<\/p>\n Israel disputes these figures – and US President Joe Biden said he had \u201cno confidence\u201d in them.<\/p>\n But Benjamin Netanyahu admitted Israel has "not been successful\u201d in reducing civilian casualties.<\/p>\n He said the deaths must be blamed on Hamas – not Israel.<\/p>\n![](\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/TM-HAMAS_COMP.jpg\")
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