Report: Hamas Preventing Evacuation From Gaza City as IDF Prepares For Offensive
Israel’s security service foils Hamas plot to assassinate National Security Minister Ben Gvir.
Hamas is preventing civilians from evacuating Gaza City as the Israeli military prepares to capture the terrorist stronghold.
The Islamic terror group was threatening and intimidating Gaza City residents into staying within the possible combat zone to use them as human shields, according to the new evidence released by COGAT, the Israeli agency overseeing humanitarian efforts in Gaza.
“The military said it has identified increasing attempts by the terror group to keep residents inside the city as human shields, using both propaganda and physical pressure,” the Israeli news website Ynetnews reported Tuesday.
The capture of Gaza City, dubbed as Operation ‘Gideon’s Chariots II,’ is key to Israel’s military aims. Most of the remaining hostages and Hamas’ combat-ready terrorist forces are believed to be in the area.
Hamas is reportedly threatening to ambush civilians trying to leave the city. “We want to go south but Hamas are waiting for us on the way,” a Gaza City resident told a COGAT official. “They tell people: go back home, there is no evacuation, go back, go back – and the people are scattering.”
“People are really afraid. Some of them are going through side streets and looking for alternative ways. Hamas is standing on the seashore near Al-Nablsi and in other places, preventing the population from moving along the main roads,” the Gaza resident added.
🚨LISTEN: A conversation between a Gaza City resident and a COGAT officer exposes Hamas’ Attempts to prevent residents from moving south for their protection, in order to use them as human shields:
“We want to go south but Hamas are waiting for us on the way. They tell people:… pic.twitter.com/ijoLAqecHu
— COGAT (@cogatonline) September 3, 2025
Despite Hamas’s threats, the COGAT is undertaking efforts to secure humanitarian relief as Gaza City’s population moves south, the IDF said on Tuesday:
In recent weeks, under the leadership of COGAT, steps have been taken to adjust the humanitarian response, as part of the preparations to receive the population in the southern part of the Gaza Strip for their protection.
Accordingly, the entry of food, medical equipment, and shelter supplies has been increased. In addition, steps have been taken regarding water supply and medical response in the southern Gaza Strip.
IDF mobilizing reservists, making logistical preparations for Op Gideon’s Chariots II
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) announced that it was ‘increasing operational readiness’ as Operation Gideon’s Chariots enters its second phase.
“We have entered the second stage of Operation ‘Gideon’s Chariots’ in order to achieve the objectives of the war. The return of our hostages is a moral and national duty. We will continue operating against Hamas’ main strongholds until its defeat.”
-The Chief of the General… pic.twitter.com/FisotLogMc
— Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) September 3, 2025
“The IDF, under the leadership of the Ground Forces Command, is preparing to enhance operational readiness for the reservist troops mobilized ahead of Operation ‘Gideon’s Chariots II’,” the military said in a press release on Tuesday. “In the coming weeks, the troops will undergo a series of exercises, in which they will carry out combat drills in open and urban terrains to strengthen operational readiness in the Gaza Strip.”
The military was mobilizing reservists and making logistical preparations for the offensive. As part of this effort, led by the Ground Forces, advanced equipment and weapons have been procured, including UAVs for platoon and company commanders, which will provide a broad tactical advantage for the reservists,” the IDF statement added. “The reservist troops are a central and essential pillar in the defense of Israeli civilians and the security of the state, and the IDF will continue to support them at all times.”
IDF: Preparations for “Gideon’s Chariot’s II” Continue: the IDF is Increasing the Readiness of its Reservist Troops
The IDF, led by the Ground Forces, is preparing to increase operational readiness for the reservist troops mobilized ahead of Operation “Gideon’s Chariots II.”… pic.twitter.com/YZ36VwNxaB
— Israel War Room (@IsraelWarRoom) September 3, 2025
Israel’s security service foils Hamas plot to assassinate National Security Minister Ben Gvir
Israel’s Shin Bet security agency foiled a Hamas plot to assassinate National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir. Shin Bet busted a Hamas terror cell planning to murder the Israeli minister using explosive drones, news reports say.
“Israel’s Shin Bet domestic intelligence service said on Wednesday it had thwarted a plan to assassinate National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir, and that members of a Hamas cell had been arrested,” Reuters reported Tuesday. “The planned Hamas attack against the far-right cabinet minister would have involved use of explosive drones, the Shin Bet said.”
The terror cell managed to fly an explosive drone over the private residence of Minister Ben-Gvir before his bodyguards and security services intercepted it, the Israel National News/Arutz Sheva suggests:
IDF and Shin Bet forces in recent weeks arrested a squad of Hamas operatives from Hebron who allegedly operated under the Hamas headquarters in Turkey to assassinate National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir.
During their interrogation, the Shin Bet found that they purchased several drones, which they planned to equip with explosives to use in the attack. The drones were seized during the arrest. The Shin Bet continues to interrogate the suspects.
Arutz Sheva-Israel National News has learned that approximately a month ago, the minister’s security detail noticed drones flying over his home while his family was present. The guards evacuated the family to a safe place, and later found that the drones were equipped with explosives.
Minister Ben-Gvir thanked the security forces for their work: “I am grateful to the Acting Head of the Shin Bet, to the agency’s investigators and operatives, to the Israel Prison Service intelligence, to the Magen Unit personnel, to IDF soldiers, to Israel Police officers, and to everyone working to protect lives.”
The Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet), in cooperation with the Israel Defense Forces, has foiled a Hamas plot to assassinate Minister of National Security Itamar Ben Gvir using explosive-laden drones.
A Hamas cell from the Hebron area was arrested in recent weeks. According to… pic.twitter.com/qfpZSlTUJY
— Jonathan Sacerdoti (@jonsac) September 3, 2025
The IDF eliminates senior Hamas terrorist who held female hostages in Gaza City
The Israeli military eliminated a Hamas terrorist, who had held three female Israeli hostages prior to their release. Hazem Awni Naeem, a senior terrorist belonging to Hamas’s Gaza City brigade, also played a key role in the terror group’s intelligence operation.
“Naeem had held Israeli hostages Emily Damari, Romi Gonen, and Naama Levy in captivity prior to their release as part of a ceasefire deal,” The Times of Israel reported.
🔴 ELIMINATED: The senior terrorist Hazem Awni Naeem, who held Emily Damari, Romi Gonen and Naama Levy in captivity, was eliminated in the Gaza City area.
Naeem held several roles in Hamas’ Gaza City brigade, and throughout the war, he was a senior operative in the military… pic.twitter.com/2SsQ4qq7br
— Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) September 2, 2025
He had close ties to Hamas’s new apparent leader, Ezz al-Din Haddad, who rose to the top rank after the IDF eliminated Gaza-based terror chief Mohammad Sinwar three months ago. “He was considered close to the brigade’s commander, Ezz al-Din Haddad, now regarded as Hamas’ de facto military leader in Gaza,” Ynetnews reported.
“On August 28th, 2025, the IDF and ISA [Shin Bet security agency] eliminated the senior terrorist Hazem Awni Naeem in the Gaza City area,” the military said in a statement on Tuesday. “The terrorist held several roles in Hamas’ Gaza City brigade, and throughout the war, he was a senior operative in the military intelligence of the Gaza City brigade and was close with the commander of the Gaza City brigade, Ezz al-Din Haddad.”
The IDF eliminated senior Hamas operative and hostage captor Hazem Awni Naeem, who held hostages Emily Damari, Romi Gonen, and Naama Levy in Gaza. i24NEWS Senior Correspondent Ariel Oseran has the latest pic.twitter.com/OmZV86WicG
— i24NEWS English (@i24NEWS_EN) September 2, 2025
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“Hamas is preventing civilians from evacuating Gaza City as the Israeli military prepares to capture the terrorist stronghold.”
You get the government you vote for.
I’m shocked! Shocked, I tell you that Hamas would actively work to prevent civilians from leaving Gaza City. No, not really. Just another attempt by Hamas to maximize the civilian casualties and injuries to provide more fake propaganda to the deluded people of the West now that their whole, “Starving Children” narrative has been repeatedly proven to be false.
But elections have consequences. And that’s the government Gazan’s voted for. So no sympathy for them. None. At. All.
Thus… civilian deaths and injuries are in spite of Israeli efforts. Disregard all such reports from Hamas. The Palestinians deserve to get their gov’t good and hard. No sympathy from me.
No surprise. It’s all aimed at support against Israel, which is why Israel needs correct moral arguments instead of their victimhood history. They’re setting up Palestinian victimhood to stand against it.
It’s pathetic to make such a stupid argument. One might say the constant deflection away from reality and facts on the ground to harangue about morality is immoral.
Hardin is still angry at the Jews over the Holocaust.
Israel is always working to minimize collateral damage, and Hamas to maximize Israel’s collateral damage. Why is that?
No good saying it’s because they’re bad people. It’s a strategy. There’s a reason for it.
It’s because Hamas is bad people. That’s it. There’s no deeper reason.
Hamas’s strategy is countering an Israeli argument that does not work externally. Hence campuses everywhere.
It is because Israel is good people and Hamas is bad people. Israel wins the moral argument.
but that would mean that the blmplo brigade wants to sacrifice people for their own benefit/power grab/ more bad pr from the anti western msm
shades of demvid19 shutdown of the usa>>world
Just a reminder that Hamas is not the elected government of the Gaza strip. Hamas seized power in the strip by a bloody coup.
There has never been an election for a government of the strip. In 2006 there was an election throughout the “Palestinian Authority” for its legislature, in which Hamas won a majority of seats. Abbas, of Fatah, had already been elected president. After two short-lived attempts to form coalition governments for the PA, in 2007 Hamas simply seized power in the strip, where it was strongest, and abandoned the “west bank” to be governed by Fatah alone.
Its almost like hamas trying to maximize civilian casualties?
Hamas claims there is only victory or martyrdom? Does the koran approve of using other muslim civilians as human shields without their consent?
Hamas means destruction. Give them what they ask for!
Is that a pun on the Hebrew word חמס (“Ḥamas”)? I’d translate it as “violence”. Destruction is הרס (“heress”). But it’s close enough.
(The terrorist group’s full name is Ḥarakat al-Muqāwamah al-ʾIslāmiyyah, which means “Islamic resistance movement”. Ḥamas is an acronym for that. But in Hebrew it sounds exactly like the word for “violence”, which is appropriate.)