Oh, look marks also in a place void away from the on tonight israel teeing upf a major Ground Invasion of gaza. 35 battalions, Tens Of Thousands of infantry , hundreds of tanks ready to roll the war plan, cu t their head off the snake. These medieval jihadists are burning babies jihadis, womo spraying automatic fire into concert crowds. Ameri 27 americans dead, 14 americans missing. Ls we fear theyre held hostage inside the Tunnels Beneathr a the gaza strip. Well over a thousand israelis are dead, the country seeking retribution, pummeling hamas hideouts, devastating Artillery Strikes and the before and after pictures of gazay are stark. Hamas territory reduced to a cementreducement gra graveyard. B but this war wont be won by Shelling IsraeliCombat Specialists have already ripped hamas cells from withinwithin their own country. That Long Bone Of Have To Capella in this. This then is hamas is trapped in gaza. The electricity and water theyve been shut off traineeyd israeli assassins are zeroing in. Starve and suffocateroing is tr strategy. Remember hamas is outmanned. Hamast 30,000 terrorists are up against nearly a half a million israelis soldiers. So is no match. Are the terrorists weapon of choice. Qassam rockets, these garage roe built rockets are inaccurate, assemble ad with cheap industri piping commercial explosives and homemade rocket fuel. Their Propaganda Machine boasts of Manufacturing Rocketsr from water pipes to the hamasth would rather murder an i israeli with a Missile Thanto provide clean Drinking Water to their people. Israels iron dome Missile Defense system is a trusted layer of protection. Hamas must rely on Guerrilla Warfare to survive, boostetode by an arsenal of heavy machine guns, rocket propelled grenades ,long range sniper rifles, v and their own version of a r. Nge hamas will also be leaning in with their alzawahiri kamikaze drone named after the dead al qaeda leader. These could present a challenge. F th now israels arsenal is state of the art. Their kit for Fighter Jetse are equivalent to american f35s, whichequivale theyre alo flexing a fleet of, as well as multimillion dollar baroque r tanks, which feature Ai Techn Technology built to surviveprov hamas stingers. Theyll prove deadly in combatde and the pentagon is already accelerating additional shipments of advanceanced weapo. To pad the israeli army stockpiles. The Israeli Defense force, the idf will have all the resources necessar all they to. For them, its personal. , it you seem to help the people of gaza, the civilians of gaza, responsible for not removing and hamas, and therefore, by implication, that makes them. Legitimate targets. No, i didnt say that, but i did not say that. I want to make it clear. I was asked somethin something about separating civilians from hamas. Hamas. But with all due respect, with all due respect, ifyo you have a missile in your kitchen and you want to shoot itt it at me, am i allowed to defend myself . Yemyselfs. But while hamas is Hunkering Plwn inside an elaborate tunneel system, theyre pleading with their arab neighbors to join the fight. The hamas chief is calling on the islamic world to engage e in a global day of tomorrow. Weve seen hezbollah in lebanon and Syrian Military already wev Syriag Rockets within isral from the north. A Two Front War Would Certainlyl Stretch the Israeli Defenseoon i forces, which is why the Unitedv States Soon Will Havea Stro Two carrier groups deployed in the region. A Strong Messageng Messa To Wane Allies of hamas who could get itchy Trigger Fingers who s lets bring in hugh dugan. N hes a former special envoy foro Hostage Affairs and major john spencer. Hes the chaincer r of the Urban Warfare Studies at the modern war institute. John, what is it going to look like when this Ground Operation is underway . S goin its going to look like hel hell on earth. Ed t i mean, you can do the operation the idf need to do to pry those Hamas Terrorists out of the cities of gaza withou beingt being exta destructive. Were already seeing that. But its going to be a really toug and allenge for the idf to face them deep buried in the tunnels and in the bunkersoing and the rubble. Its going to be reall to bey ll like its going to look like scorched earth. But the idfk like follow thes of war. Its just what happens in urban warfare of wa. Jesse how restrained is thell thi israeli army being . Theyre catching all this heat from the international press. Yeah, thats the tactic of hamas. Hamas is. If i teach urban warfare, i usef hamas as the example of using human shields, literallyeopl putting your people out to diee in military targets. B so that way you can broadcast to the International Media and cry for helpo th. The idf is being extremely restrained. Theyre Hitting Militaryedf hasn targets. I also teach what it takesakes to protect civilians. The idf are telling the civilians to leave their colony buildings beforeeat they strike it. Theyre dropping leaflets. Theyre being restrained and followins. Theyrg The Law O Bud when they go in, is this block by Block Building By building. What does that look like from the eyes of a soldier co the grounndd . It is the worst combat you could ever ask the soldierhe to do. Millions of Firing Points they could fac you. D the enemy gets a tick when they shoot at you. But he absolutely is blocit, by block, house by house, house bombs, snipers undergroun, d bombs, rpgs fromtf any direction. But there are a lot of challenges. But having studied other militaries one milit, one mility specifically designed for that is the idea. All right. We believe theres 150 hostagesa that hamas has. S. Theyre probably undergroul in the tunnels. We believe some of those Hostagesieve Se are americans. D what is this negotiation . If it is aoes negotiated, shouw it all look like . Well, we knowre that therewhi are 600 americans who live in gaza. Were not sure exactlyven ga the number in the tunnels or perhaps theyre elsewhere. It would be very usefuthelsewhet where they were. And thats a tactic that the hamas will use against us byunda moving them around, perhaps making it all the more difficult for us ort diffie the israelis to launch any typey of recovery effort. S so theres a strong chancere that as the israelis povingunding gaza and as they move Ground Forces in, hamas is moving some of these hostagesse into the front linese well, one hopes that theys ar realize that hostages are alive. Hostages are worth more to them than the dead one. And inem tha all of our maneuved and messaging, i hope that that message gets across at least to maintain the life of these people. So that t ls other developments might occur that could assist in their recover y. Erag what kind of leverage does hamas have now that they have hs hostages, especially american hostages . Is this about money . Are they holding out for a truce . Yre what exactly would their strategy be . Theyre building their brandg t unfortunately. This is well worth it to the im to demonstrate their ability to invoke pain among israelis. They set out this big dragnet to take hostages. Hostages one doesnt know if they targeted americans or not, ind takethe eney they di americans with them. The the end resultlt is oner of publicity, unfortunately, for their cause to create sympathy perhaps around the world. I think thats going to backfire. I think the state sponsors fire. Who are sponsoring hamas may have lost control and theyr ha you know, proxies gone wild, perhaps might make them think twice about whats goingd to happen on the ground and whether or not the hamaswhe are going to take it far too far for their for their sponsors to have anticipate far ford it. Yeah. So these sponsorpos are basical waiting to see how things play out. Theyve already got a message e sent by the u. S. Military. Thats for sure. John, last questio n. Havedelicate is a dance . When you have hostages, loca youre not sure the intelligence of where theyre located in the middl iee of Guerrilla Warfare. I mean, a ver my delicate. H and hamas will use the hostages as shields again, but that. Wont stop the operation. Yeah, the more time you wairb ,the better time to get the hostages back. But the tunnels that theyre s hiding them in are the worst condition you could ever seen. But i know, bui know some really specialized people that hamas tht. M an to mee all right. Well, i hope they meet them. And i hoped the they meet themy gentlemen, thank you so mucoh. Thank you. Thank you. So the israeli j airstrikes are demolishing hamas hideouts. This creates a tactica l problemists for israels ground offensive. The terrorists will use the rubble for cover, planting hads, hiding their snipers. The debris will also make it hard for israeli tanks a and heavy artillery to navigate while hamas can still move around freely underground. And hamas has builtil Three Hundred miles of tunnelsir underneath their cities and even Tunnels Intieo israel. Hamas can ambush Israeli Soldiers from every angle, then snake back down underground. Hamas hama wants you to chased with them underground. The tunnels are laced with traps, heavily armed terrorists ready to kill around every corner. Cornerits a maze of death. Some tunnels run over 100 feet deep, making them immune to airstrikes. T deep misraels destroyed these tunnels before, but hamas rebuilt using palestinian aid money courtesy of joe biden. So why doesnt israel implode the tunnels now . Because hamas is probablyground Holding Hostages underground. You cant collapse. The tunnel into 150 hostages. Its a Jihadis Hostat labyrinth that will increase casualties and prolong the waeaser. Tunnels give native insurgents an advantage. Bin ladegentn used a series of e tunnels to escape u. S. Special forces after 911. L you remember in tora bora, the 9 Built Underground Lairs acrossei europe. Hitler himself died in a bunker after swallowing a cyanide pill and shooting himselflf aft in te head. And then theres the deadliest Tunnel System of all vietnam. The vietcong lived underground ,maneuvered around our troops, ambushed us, and then escape d. S into the tunnels. So the u. S. Army took the fight to them. E fighthe smallest guys in the h they called them tunnel rats, dk had to go underground and smoke out the vehicles. The tunnels were Booby Trappedht and filled with North Arounamese who knew what was around every corner, every dark corner. Those tunnels every gave our troops nightmares. They still do not was brutal. We lost 60,000 americans. O and this israelihamas war is set to be long ang and bloodd the israelis need to be ready for a serious fight. Bob stewart is an army vet who fought in the tunnels of vietnam. Tell us what it was like. Well, you get called in inlue your unit and ask for volunteers. Most of guys some guysrsf the ge are going to training. A lot of guys are just volunteers. Ill go in. You got timers, ill gin to wair the other units to come in. So, you skinny guy. I was about £120, soaking wet, w kind of tall and thin, like a snak ande. The go down there. You got to worry about the punch sticks and the humannk waste on it and get you infection. Bacteria grow so fast, you amputateu an your feetst they and Everything Else before you can get it fixed. And they have a side slit dropn an in and the next thing you know, their bayonet. And yes, so wed take a concussiond grenade, throw it in there first, scramble the marines of other people. Its in there. Then get the snakes out. Yoe bamboo vipere outs and othr traps theyd have. And you got to go slow and easoy. Take it with a rope and you get hurt. You it back out. T hurt tack but no, most of the time to keep going. Theres different levels. They had trapdoors with seals on and then you put food, gas down there. You put tear gas down here. We even trie sea, Dowtear Gas End to drown them out. Didnt work. They would actually have entrance and Stuff Cominthey wg g from the rivers and stuff. These people over there in the middle east have learned a lesson from the viet minis and the japanese mese and the koreans, and they hit the hitlers guys and. S gubut so as israelis learn Fra The Americans about how to handle thesme e people, and itl type takes that special type of person thats willing p fo to give their life up for their country and their lovedaut ones and family, because itak o takes a lot of a lot of courage to go down inside of a dark hole with a 45 and a flashlight and hope for the best. But a loa lot of times you done want to use that 45 try to use your knife because you dont want that loud noise. It gives your position away ver muthat i cant talk very much 9 about me, but i talk about the f guys in 68, 69 that when they first went in the Iron Triangle where i was stationed at kuchi, vietna m and a 25the division, the first set of 27s o wolfhounds, it was horrible. And they were Plantation Rubber plantation that was completely honeycombed and they had big campaigns going in there ami to just try to clear it out. But i think of america and what they did in World War Two, and the israelis paid attention and they do it the like we didid in World War Two through the hitler and and japanese. R anthey had the caves and in io jima and guadalcanal, and they have a resolve to win that. And they can walk right throug h there and youre going to have casualties. And im fearful for the the hostages to have because the hos are going to pay the price because theyre going to use them as human shields. L themthey figure they play on U Christian Heart that you dont want to kill your owann people. And that is the sad part of it. And i pray for them. And ive got the theyre ingh ta my prayers every day because living throught, that, its a, horrible, horrible thing. And there are so many guys that just cant cope wit with thaticide, t. And theres a lot of guysca that committed suicidell and lie they call it 22 now with the guys from iraq and afghanistan. But the vietna vietnam m vets, every day we were in the holes and every day shooting in firefights. Ying att and i commend the israelis for paying attention. And they go in go in force ando what they got to do and pray yor the hostages. Did you just, bob, you justt blew me away. I never heard Anything Grap and that terrifying in my entire career. That that was that wast its a hell of a description of what its like underground. O each one of us raiseds our hands and gave uanpo to including our life, if need be, to go into the service and fight for our Countrrvice A we didnt ask what your race, your color, creative persuasion was or your religion color o. A youre american. Good enough for us. And i think thats the same attitude to have ough in israel. Youre an israeli and they will fight and die fol yourer theiro and their loved ones. Ved and weve got your six. All right. Well, weix. Salute you here, boh what a what a thank you. Her great hero you are. Love you, man. S i want to hear all part of it. Just to serve. Her did my job. Thats it. No hero. J esciate we appreciate you. Jes thank you. Bless. Is well, the fight in the tunnels Underneath Gaza is just the beginning. T the our very own Pete Hegsethk A firsthand look at these terror tunnels. Justf th a few years ago. Watch. So here we are just roughly 700e gaza meters from the gaza border inside a tunnel. Its not just a tunnel. Its a terror tunnel. Hamas take a lots a part of it budget to build this kind of structure and to buildd be a military force, money they could be using for their people, for schools and Hospitaltheir S and otherwi are going into Something Like this. The only purpose first to do T Massive Killing Inside Israel and a surprise. And so every day its partob of your job to find more terror tunnels. We have a good technology, but in the end, you need to discover this from one meter. This is what you need to discove 1r 15 or 20 meters ob inside to go on from octobererja to januarynuar. We found just in the lastmonths three months three tunnels here, finding them right now as hamas continues to dig undera the gaza strip into the into the israeli population. I want to get a sense of whathi its like to fight in a tunnel like this, becauses. You inrent the infantry, youre usually outside of different conflicts. Youre but this is a whole nother level. Its a physica is l, psychologil challenge for fighting sides like this. Likeim cramping up.