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Footage has emerged appearing to show the Israeli military detaining dozens of Palestinian men in northern Gaza – with some stripped to their underwear.

The video, widely shared on social media, shows those held lined up in rows. Some appear to have their hands tied behind their backs.

A number of Israeli commentators originally incorrectly identified the location as Khan Younis, in the south of the Gaza Strip.

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They also claimed the images showed Hamas fighters surrendering to the Israel Defense Forces (IDF).

Itay Blumenthal, military correspondent for Israel’s Kan News, later reported Israeli troops detained the men before checking if any of them were members of Hamas or Palestinian Islamic Jihad.

According to Qatari news outlet Al Araby, Hamas leader Osama Hamdan said the detainees were unarmed civilians unrelated to military operations.

Sky News cannot independently verify when the images were taken. The IDF has been approached for comment.

The New Arab, a Qatari-owned news outlet based in London, reported that at least one of the detainees was a journalist.

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The images come as 350 more Palestinians died in the last 24 hours, according to the Hamas-run Gaza health ministry.

IDF soldiers moved into Khan Younis as the war enters its third month, while Israel continues its ground operation into the south of Gaza.

US president Joe Biden also spoke over the phone with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday.

Mr Biden “underscored the importance of the continuous and sustained flow of humanitarian aid into Gaza” according to a White House statement.

Mr Biden and Mr Netanyahu “agreed to remain deeply engaged to pursue every possible opportunity to free the remaining hostages”.

The White House later said Israel and Hamas are not close to agreeing a new humanitarian pause.

The UK and US governments have imposed sanctions on two Russian hackers after the private conversations of high-profile politicians and civil servants were compromised.

The Foreign Office said the “Star Blizzard” group, a subordinate of an FSB cyber unit, had targeted MPs, Lords, civil servants, journalists and others in attempts to “meddle in British politics” and had “selectively leaked and amplified information” since 2015.

It added Britain had summoned the Russian ambassador over the issue – but Russia’s embassy in London said Moscow has no reason to trust British insinuations about cyberattacks, Russian news agencies reported.

The group used a technique known as “spear-phishing” to steal information, which involves tricking targets into opening malicious links in emails sent from email addresses designed to appear familiar.

The Foreign Office and US Treasury said sanctions would be imposed on Andrey Stanislavovich Korinets, AKA Alexey Doguzhiev, and FSB intelligence officer Ruslan Aleksandrovich Peretyatko.

The Treasury said Korinets conspired with Peretyatko to break into victims’ computer systems and in one case impersonated a retired US Air Force General in a bid to trick their targets into opening malicious links.

It also alleged they and other unnamed conspirators targeted the accounts of US government officials, including current and former employees of the departments of Defense and State and of the intelligence community.

The US has offered a reward of up to $10m (£8m) for information leading to the identification or location of any person who engages in malicious cyber activities against the US under the direction of a foreign government.

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The Foreign Office said the FSB had been identified as being involved in the hacking of UK-US trade documents which were leaked ahead of the 2019 general election, as well as the 2018 hacking of the UK think tank Institute for Statecraft.

In December 2021, the account of the think tank’s founder Christopher Donnelly was targeted by FSB, with documents subsequently leaked, the Foreign Office added.

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Foreign Secretary Lord David Cameron said: “Russia’s attempts to interfere in UK politics are completely unacceptable and seek to threaten our democratic processes. Despite their repeated efforts, they have failed.

“In sanctioning those responsible and summoning the Russian ambassador today, we are exposing their malign attempts at influence and shining a light on yet another example of how Russia chooses to operate on the global stage.

“We will continue to work together with our allies to expose Russian covert cyber activity and hold Russia to account for its actions.”