"We made a decision that we don't want to fight and as soon as the army comes we will turn ourselves in," said Abu Al-Baraa, a commander of Hamas's Nuh'ba force. "We sat in the room, we put all the weapons outside - when the army came we raised our hands and surrendered," he said.

When asked to deliver a message to other activists in the organization who are currently in the tunnels, he said: "I recommend everyone to surrender because your destiny is to die"