PM Netanyahu tells Hamas to surrender as Gaza war rages on
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00:00 As the war in Gaza continues into its third month,
00:03 Khan Younis has found itself directly at the epicentre.
00:07 Fierce clashes erupted here once again on Sunday,
00:10 as Israeli tanks ventured into the centre of the enclave's biggest southern city.
00:15 Here, the bodies of Palestinian victims
00:18 are constantly pulled from the wreckage of Israeli strikes.
00:22 "We got married six months before the war and today he is dead.
00:26 He left me alone."
00:28 In central Gaza, mourners gathered outside the Al-Aqsa hospital for a mass funeral,
00:34 after an Israeli bombardment repeatedly hit the town of Zoueda throughout the day.
00:38 "Here in this house we found a young man dismembered,
00:43 just body parts, and we found this woman, who is the owner of the house,
00:47 on top here, in pieces, and a column above filled with blood and body parts."
00:52 Violence meanwhile continued in the north of the strip on Sunday.
00:58 In Gaza City, Jabalia and Shijia, where the IDF claimed a series of arrests.
01:04 Those efforts were praised by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu,
01:08 who called on Hamas to abandon the fight.
01:10 "In the past few days, dozens of Hamas terrorists have surrendered to our forces.
01:16 They're laying down their weapons and turning themselves in to our heroic soldiers.
01:20 This will take time. The war is still ongoing, but it's the beginning of the end of Hamas.
01:26 I say to the Hamas terrorists, it's over. Don't die for your leader, Yehia Sinwar. Surrender now."
01:32 Israel's military claimed it struck more than 250 targets over the past 24 hours,
01:38 including a Hamas military communications site and underground tunnel shafts in the south.
01:44 In response, Hamas said no more hostages taken on October 7th
01:49 would leave alive unless their demands were met for Palestinian prisoners to be released.
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