Amid Israel's ground attack in Gaza, videos showing men wearing blindfolds and only their underpants have been making the rounds on social media in the last few hours. Israeli television aired images purportedly showing detained Hamas fighters in Gaza City.

Seated on the ground with their wrists tied behind their backs and heads bent, the Palestinians, most of whom are young, are visible. They are seen being taken in the back of an Israeli military truck in one of the clips. One of the people reportedly taken on Thursday morning is Diaa Al-Kahlot, the reporter for Al-Araby Al-Jadeed in the northern part of the region.

The journalist's family later informed the outlet of his detention, although the outlet had lost communication with him in the afternoon. Israeli troops 'arrest, target, and murder journalists on purpose to stop them from exposing their atrocities in Gaza,' according to editor-in-chief Hossam Kanafani.

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) expressed its "deep concern" at the news of the correspondent's detention along with his relatives.

One of the few pan-Arab news organizations currently operating in northern Gaza is Al-Araby Al-Jadeed. While denying any ties to Hamas or any other organization, some Palestinians living overseas also recognized relatives in the images and recordings. Seeing his family in the photo, Hani Almadhoun, a Palestinian-American living in the US state of Virginia, emphasized that they were "innocent civilians with no links to Hamas or any other faction." Speaking, he stated: "They took them from a family-owned house near the market."

They took into custody my father, 72, my brother Mahmoud, 32, his kid Omar, 13, my nephew Aboud, 27, and a few of our in-laws. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) have not yet provided a statement about the mass arrests, and Metro.co.uk was unable to confirm the posted footage and images independently. According to Israeli military spokesman Daniel Hagari, soldiers are engaged in combat with terrorists within Hamas' "centers of gravity." He declared:

"Those who remain in the area during this fighting emerge from tunnels and some houses. We investigate to see who is affiliated with Hamas and who is not; we detain and question everyone." Hagari would not comment on the photos, but he did mention that hundreds of suspected militants have been questioned so far and that a large number of them had turned themselves in on the last day. In the meantime, the IDF allegedly imprisoned and brutally mistreated scores of Palestinian residents in northern Gaza, according to Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor. Days they were passed as soldiers barricaded two refuge centers in the town of Beit Lahia, beating and disrobing the men of their clothing.