Hamas Commander to Comrades: Time to Surrender

4:20 PM · February 09, 2024

Excerpt Jerusalem Post jpost.com

Senior Hamas Nukhba Brigade Commander Abu al-Baraa told the Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) during interrogations on Thursday that he had a message for the remaining Hamas fighters, "I recommend everyone surrender, your fate is death."

The Shin Bet published parts of their investigation of Hamas operative Muhammad Nasir Suleiman Abu-Namr or Abu al-Baraa - who told them about the moments when he was captured and how he and his friends chose to lay down their arms and surrender.

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Ed Morrissey Feb 9, 2024 4:20 PM ET

This says something about the morale of Hamas rank-and-file and perhaps even up to mid-level command. This may also be a consequence of the breakdown of communications over the last several weeks as Israeli forces destroy the tunnel systems under Khan Younis and other places. According to the interrogation, this commander had plenty of munitions to fight to the death, but ... his team lost interest in martyrdom. Maybe the rest of them will do the same and surrender.