[IsraelTimes] Hamas men seen surrendering to troops in northern Gaza; after deaths reported at Gaza Humanitarian Foundation sites, GHF says ‘nothing’ happened near them
The Israel Defense Forces defeated Hamas
 ..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,...
’s Beit Hanoun battalion, the military declared on Saturday, after three of the terror group’s operatives surrendered to troops of the Givati Brigade in the northern Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response ...
town.
The operatives emerged from a tunnel and surrendered to the forces in the area, the IDF said, adding that they told the troops they had sought to flee the area after another gunman with them was killed during a previous exchange of fire with the military.
The Hamas button men also led the forces to a weapons depot near the tunnel from which they emerged, where the IDF said the troops found numerous weapons and equipment.
The military stated that troops also discovered food, water, and other supplies inside the tunnel, suggesting it could be used for long-term underground residence.
The IDF said the three operatives were taken for further interrogation, the weapons were seized, and combat engineers are mapping out the tunnel ahead of its demolition.
"The Beit Hanoun Battalion, which posed a threat to Nir Am and Sderot, has surrendered and been defeated by Givati Brigade troops," the IDF said.
Defense Minister Israel Katz posted footage of the operatives surrendering on X. "Hamas gunnies are surrendering in Beit Hanoun. They are emerging from the burrows into the destroyed city," he wrote. "The IDF is destroying both the above and the underground [infrastructure] to defend the city of Sderot."
Hamas operatives surrender to IDF troops of the Givati Brigade in northern Gaza’s Beit Hanoun, August 2, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)
Last week, during a tour of Beit Hanoun, the commander of the Givati Brigade told news hounds that there were just four or five remaining button men in the area.
The IDF has operated in Beit Hanoun five times since the beginning of the war, slowly degrading Hamas’s battalion there, which, before October 7, 2023, consisted of over 1,000 operatives.
The majority of the Hamas button men in the Beit Hanoun Battalion were either killed during the fighting or fled, like the battalion commander, Hussein Fayyad.
The IDF’s declaration on Beit Hanoun followed a Channel 12 news report, which stated that Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir had pleaded with cabinet ministers this week to present a strategy for how they wanted the army to proceed amid the standstill in hostage talks. Zamir reportedly emphasized that the government lacks a clear game plan, as Jerusalem’s diplomatic standing has plummeted due to the humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip.
On Friday, Zamir told troops inside Gaza he estimates "that in the coming days we will know whether we will be able to reach a partial deal to release our hostages," otherwise "the fighting will continue unabated."
MORE DEATHS REPORTED AT AID SITES
Israel has been facing growing global scrutiny over the amount of aid distributed to civilians in Gaza since a ceasefire with Hamas ended in March, amid reports of hunger in the enclave. Much of the criticism has focused on the hundreds of reported deaths at aid distribution sites run by the Israel-and US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation.
Hospitals in Gaza reported Saturday the killing of more than a dozen people, eight of them food-seekers, by Israeli fire as Paleostinians endured severe risks in their search for food amid airdrops and restrictions on overland aid delivery.
Near a GHF distribution site, Yahia Youssef, who had come to seek aid, described to the News Agency that Dare Not be Named a panicked scene now grimly familiar.
After helping carry out three people maimed by gunshots, he said he looked around and saw many others lying on the ground, bleeding.
"It’s the same daily episode," Youssef said.
In response to questions about several eyewitness accounts of violence at the northernmost of GHF’s four sites, the GHF media office said "nothing [happened] at or near our sites."
Meanwhile,
...back at the pie fight, Bella went down under the weight of the custard...
the IDF on Friday afternoon announced the largest airdrop operation since efforts to increase the supply of aid to Gaza began, with 126 packages of humanitarian supplies from six countries being dropped by aircraft in the coastal enclave. Aircraft from Jordan, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates, and — for the first time in over a year — Spain, Germany, and La Belle France airdropped food in both northern and southern Gaza.
The IDF said the airdrops were carried out "in accordance with the directives from the political echelon and as part of the cooperation between Israel, the UAE, Jordan, Egypt, Spain, La Belle France, and Germany."
The airdrops are part of a "series of actions aimed at improving the humanitarian response in the Gaza Strip," the military said.
"The IDF will continue to work in order to improve the humanitarian response in the Gaza Strip, along with the international community, while refuting the false claims of deliberate starvation in Gaza," it added.
On Saturday, another 90 packages of aid were airdropped by Jordan, the UAE, Germany, and La Belle France in Gaza, the military said. 
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