Footage shows dozens of ‘Hamas suspects’ stripped and blindfolded being paraded around in their underwear by IDF soldiers
Israel continued its offensive against Hamas on Sunday as dozens more “terrorism suspects” were pictured tied up, stripped and lined up on their knees.
Footage published by Israeli media showed Israel Defense Forces (IDF) soldiers rounding up dozens of men and transporting them on the back of trucks.
The men are believed to have surrendered in the Jabaliya refugee camp and other areas in northern Gaza, and the Israeli newspaper Walla said they were stripped “to rule out the possibility that they were carrying weapons.”
One video posted on social media showed huddled, half-naked Palestinian men lined up against a wall.
One man then steps forward to hand the machine gun to the Israeli soldiers, raising his hands in the air, while others behind him hold up their ID cards.
The men are believed to have surrendered in the Jabaliya refugee camp and other areas in northern Gaza.
“Slowly, slowly,” an IDF soldier says to a man with a pistol walking barefoot through the rubble next to an Israeli tank.
Other images show the suspects sitting in the middle of the street – stripped, bound, blindfolded and surrounded by IDF soldiers.
Hamas claims the men were all unarmed and innocent civilians, but Israel has said it will interrogate all those who surrender to the troops and have potential links to Hamas.
Among those detained in recent days are Hamas militants who provided intelligence to the Israeli military, the IDF says.
“Every day we see more and more terrorists killed, more and more terrorists injured, and in recent days we see terrorists surrendering – a sign of the collapse of the system, a sign that we need to act stronger,” said the Saturday IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi.
Israeli army spokesman Daniel Hagari said last week that Israeli troops had detained and interrogated hundreds of people in the Gaza Strip with suspected links to militants.
Khagari told reporters: “Jabaliya and Shejaya are centers of gravity… for terrorists and we are fighting them.
Dozens of naked “terrorism suspects” lined up with their hands tied behind their backs
Other images show the suspects sitting in the middle of the street – stripped, bound, blindfolded and surrounded by IDF soldiers.
Footage published by Israeli media showed Israel Defense Forces (IDF) soldiers rounding up dozens of men and transporting them on the back of trucks.
“They hide underground, come out, and we fight them. Whoever is left in these areas is coming out of the tunnel shafts and some of the buildings, and we are finding out who is affiliated with Hamas and who is not. We will arrest them all and interrogate them.”
Meanwhile, Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant told IDF soldiers on Friday that he “sees signs that disintegration is beginning inside the Gaza Strip.”
Israeli forces have surrounded major urban centers as they seek to destroy Hamas following its unprecedented attack on October 7, when the terrorists broke through Gaza’s militarized border to kill about 1,200 people and take hostages, 138 of whom remain captive, according to Israeli data.
Since Israel began retaliatory bombing of the small enclave, more than 17,170 Palestinians have been killed and 46,000 wounded, according to Gaza’s health ministry.
It came after Israel vowed to continue its “just war to destroy Hamas” and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu thanked the United States for blocking a UN ceasefire proposal.
The US, a key Israeli ally, was the only member to veto a UN Security Council resolution demanding an immediate humanitarian ceasefire, while Britain abstained from voting despite widespread international support.
An Israeli soldier stands next to a truck containing detained Palestinians, supposedly “Hamas suspects.”
A truck filled with stripped Palestinian “terrorism suspects”
Israeli army spokesman Daniel Hagari said last week that Israeli troops had detained and interrogated hundreds of people in the Gaza Strip with suspected links to militants.
Israeli warplanes carried out a merciless bombing raid on parts of the Gaza Strip on Saturday, hitting some of the dwindling swaths of land that Israel designated as safe zones when it ordered Palestinians in the south to evacuate.
Residents are “ordered to move like human pinballs, ricocheting between smaller and smaller pieces of the south, without any basic survival,” UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told the council ahead of the UN Security Council vote.
Israel blames Hamas militants for the civilian casualties, accusing them of using civilians as human shields, and says it has made significant efforts to issue evacuation orders to keep civilians out of harm’s way.
Israel says Hamas operates out of hospitals and has released videos to back up the claim, and has in the past attacked ambulances it says were used by Hamas. Hamas denies this.