Israel says Hamas surrendering in north Gaza

The Israeli Defence Minister, Yoav Gallant, has stated that the battalions of the Palestinian group Hamas in northern Gaza are 'on the verge of being dismantled.' He mentioned that many Hamas members are surrendering, especially from their Jabaliya and Shejaiya battalions. Hundreds more civilians have died in Israeli bombings and a ground assault on Gaza in the past few days. The Israeli army has reiterated its preparedness to fight for months or longer to defeat Gaza’s Hamas rulers.“We have encircled the last strongholds of Hamas in Jabaliya and Shejaiya, the battalions that were considered invincible, that prepared for years to fight us, are on the verge of being dismantled,” Gallant said at a press conference Monday.He said hundreds of Hamas operatives had surrendered to Israeli troops in recent days, which “shows what is happening” to the terror group.Gallant also threatened Hamas’s Gaza leader Yahya Sinwar, the mastermind of the October 7 onslaught, saying his fate and that of “any other senior commander in Hamas, and the fate of the [low-ranking] terrorist is the same: surrender or die. There is no third option.” In northern Gaza, Nahal Infantry Brigade troops discovered a Hamas training site inside a mosque in northern Gaza’s Jabaliya.

Troops of the Nahal Infantry Brigade have discovered a Hamas training site inside a mosque in northern Gaza’s Jabaliya.

Footage published by the IDF shows an officer giving a tour of the mosque, revealing on the third floor a room used by Hamas for combat simulation. A machine… pic.twitter.com/6dRumKwU2c

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According to the UN, more than 80% of Gaza’s 2.3 million residents have been displaced since the start of the war, some of them more than once.While Israel has urged people to seek refuge in the south, there are few safe places for civilians to go as the war continues to expand.