[national anthem] [national anthem] [national anthem] [national anthem] will straight to a fox news alert, israel preparing for a full scale Ground Invasion of gaza as the idf confirmed troops and tank it is are already involved inside the hamascontrolled area. Rachel overnight an israeli airstrike reportedly killed a top hamas official believed responsible for last weeks deadly attack. Israeli Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu issuing a stark warning to the terror group. [speaking in native tongue] translator we are pounding our enemieses with unprecedented force, and i stress this is only the beginning. Our enemies have only just begun to pay the price. I will not detail our plans, but i will tell you this is only the beginning. Pete the Israeli Military extending the window for people to evacuate Northern Gaza to 9 a. M. Eastern time, is so just three hours from now. Two routes are currently open to allow Palestinians Safe Passage Out of gaza city to the south. This as the u. S. Officials are reportedly negotiating to allow u. S. Nationals currently in gaza to evacuate at the rafa Border Crossing into egypt. Right now we know hamas has at least 120 host ams and are responsible for hostages and are responsible for killing at least 1300 israelis and 27 u. S. Citizens. Will now lets yet to trey yingst live on the ground in Southern Israel morning. Trey. Reporter hey, guys, good morning. We could just with hours away are from this Ground Operation or into gaza. Cover night and this morning we have seen a variety of points, a form of Staging Points for these troops in the southern part of israel. Tanks and apcs, Infantry Troops being guarded preparing for their orders to ultimately move up and go to the line of departure and then enter what gaza with that assault that is expected to be announced by Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu. There are a number of tanks and different can units deployed not just to the northern part of gaza, over the border where we are here, but also throughout the border area along the strip. This is going to be the a multifront assault. We counderstand according to officials in israel, they will hit a hamas hard from multiple different directions. And this comes as rocket fire continues into southern and central the israel. Today Air Raid Sirens sounding in tel aviv. We saw some of the rockets coming off the strip and in total more than 5,000 rockets have been fired by hamas and Islamic Jihad since this Massacre Start on saturday morning and then the war that erupted aftera wards. You mentioned the Gaza Evacuation that is continuing, israel extending that win toe to allow the safe window to allow the safe passage. We do understand that they will be able to make it to the second largest city in gaza, and already sources Inside Gaza City telling us thousands are heeding those warnings by the israelis. Theres a real understanding that in the coming days the israelis will not only ramp up airstrikes, but launch that ground assault. A scene last night along the border, we were watching as the israelis In The Dark Of Night pounded the gaza strip. Every so often youd see A Flash Of Light in the distance hitting different hamas positions, and as we have learned this morning, two top officials have been targeted by israeli strikes over the past 12 hours. This is one of the individuals that was responsible for planning the the massacre that left more than 1300 dead on saturday morning and also a Company Commander from an elite unit inside hamas. So we do know this is going to be a continuing operation and, again, all signs point to this kicking off in the next few hours or even the next day. Guys, back to you. Pete trey, what do we have any updates on status of hostages as this invasion is imminent . Do you have any sense they have a better idea of where they are, how they might play into this invasion . Reporter so we just got one update when it comes to hostages, and that has to do with something we learned last night. An Israeli Military official telling fox news there was an operation yesterday for the israelis to conduct small raids inside gaza, so they sent in tanks and Infantry Troops to do a limited operation, gather swell, and we intel, and we do understand at least according to some reports try and retrieve the bodies of some hostage as that a went in. Now, we werent able to confirm that information independently, but we do know they were trying to get information regarding these hostages. They may be trying to identify if any are being kept mere the border so when that initial push goes in, they could try to rescue some of these people. But the concern is the majority of them are held within the tunnels beneath gaza, and it will take a concerted effort not just to hold the territory in gaza, but then to to enter the tunnels and figure out if theyre able to rescue any of these individuals. Rachel trey, are you hearing anything about how theyre prioritizing rest daying the hostages you rescuing the hostages versus this invasion . Because i guess just sitting here, im thinking if they invade, if they go do this Ground Invasion, the life of these, the lives of these hostages are going to be in worse danger. Reporter absolutely. Look, as israel continues to hammer the gaza strip with not only airstrikes but also artillery and naval support, on the ground we are talking about a massive operation here. You hear that jeep going by in the distance filled with soldiers. There are thousands of Infantry Troops here along the border. There are tanks, apcs. When they really face the pressure that we understand they will face in the coming days, the concern is they could use these hostages as bargaining chips, as negotiating chips. And weve seen what isis did in the past rachel yes. Reporter israeli Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu wanted to make clear that hamas is worse than isis. You saw what isis did to hostages, we can only imagine what will be done to these individuals. Will really quickly, trey rachel talks about this as though i think accurately theres a timeline on rescuing these hostages. Weve heard President Biden talk about The Americans being held hostage. Do you or have you seen any sign of an american presence in israel, American Military or diplomatic for that matter on the Ground Presence in israel . Reporter other than the defense minister, no. The defense secretary, lloyd austin, making that visit trying to send a message. But there has not been any sort of u. S. Military presence here along the border. There are american weapons that have been provided in the past to the israelis. We counderstand there are also these flights coming in to military bases with very specific requests, two examples, one has to do with the Missile Defense system, the iron dome, and the batteries or that are used to basically deploy across this area. And then the missiles used to shoot down the rockets coming from gaza. And the second has to do with small diameter bombs. The israelis need more support when it comes to this because they understand they also could run low on supplies as this conflict appears it will be, at minimum, a weekslong war. Guys, back to you. Pete at minimum. Trey yingst, thank you so much for your time this morning. Rachel thank you, trey. Pete yeah. You can only imagine the the calculations going into what theyre going to do down there. Rachel i saw the video of the little babies being held by the terrorists. It was so mindblowing, so sickening and, of course, i im thinking about that. Im going, what happens to those babies if theres a Ground Invasion . I mean, its unthinkable. Will its also listening to trey talk about one of the top terrorists who helped plan this attack already having been targeted does highlight the intelligence capabilities which always, to me, i find it impossible the went unnoticed. Theres a New York Times report talking about this thing had been in the planning perhaps over a year with camps set up in lebanon with forces there syria with, iran and hamas all training in preparation, and i just dont know how that flies under the radar of intelligence in in the United States or israel. Rachel i couldnt agree more. And, by the way, we give 3 billion a year to israel, and i think theres a lot of questions about huge, massive Security Failure with. Pete a ott lot of that is about to be utilized. They purchase a lot of americanmade weapons. Theres a lot of fingerpointing going on amongst them. Heard from some top israeli officials saying, hey everyones pointing at each other, but this is on the defense and Intelligence Services who should is have seen this, and if they did, didnt alert civilian authority to that, but thats one view of it. And ultimately, at this point trying to identify where hostages are, where the enemy is a herculean task. In large part not because of of whats above the ground, but because of whats below. Heres a basic schematic, but it gives you a sense of the complexity of the Tunnel System inside gaza. I dont think thats the right graphic. But theres another graphic that shows the thats the road, by the way, one of the roads northsouth that evacuees are attempting to leave. By the way, before we theres the Tunnel System right there. If you look up knot, thats north, thats gaza city where most of the hamas headquarters are. They say there are 300 miles of tunnels underneath gaza. You effectively have a Tunnel City Underneath that makes clearing that area really difficult because if you clear something above ground, you may think they have, but you havent below ground with, and they could fill it back up with fighters or hide hostages. Of i dont know whether to be heartened or concerned about the fact that we havent seen Hostage Videos yet. You know the famous isis videos we saw . Hopefully theres things happening underneath the surface and behind the scenes were not aware about, but heres another just basic sense of the amount of depth that theyre willing to go to in order to hide these tunnels. Rachel pete, youve been inside these tunnels but on the israeli side . Pete correct. Yeah, in 2018 i was on the israeli side but not far from gaza at all, and the Israel Defense forces gave me a sense of these terror tunnels. Take a watch. A portion of. But so here we are just roughly 700 meters from the gaza border inside a tunnel. Translator its a terror tunnel. Hamas large part of to build this kind of structure. Pete so every day its part of your job to find more terror tunnels. We found [inaudible] three tunnels. Pete youre finding them right now as hamas continues to dig under the gaza strip into the israeli population. I want to get a sense of its like to fight in a tunnel like this, because you in the infantry, youre usually outside of different conflicts, youre underground but this is a whole different its a psychological challenge. Pete im cramping up and sore already, and weve been in here for, what, two minutes . Just imagine the difficulty of fighting in a tunnel like this but also the ideological dedication of the radical islamist enemy thats willing to spend months and months and months and months underground picking away at the soil, putting in steel, putting many lights, pumping in air just so that they can kill innocent civilians. Will pete, i know you saw that from the israeli side. Im curious if youve come to understand that Tunnel System is certainly what were seeing on the screen from you is essentially a transport system. Its a passageway. But once you get in there neither gaza, is it more extensive . Is it bunkers . Is it places for longterm stays for either a terrorist or for hostages . Pete yes. So its barracks, its meeting rooms, its places for people to eat and sleep and stay and live for long periods of time. They can pump oxygen down there, electricity. So the system is not just tunnels inside gaza, its entire underground cities, prisons is what, you know, it could also be. And what you saw there were the tunnels that hamas has been building for decades to tray to get into israeli territory with the biggest fear of those that live in the south that in the middle of the night hamas may just spring out of the ground and is suddenly be in your backyard which is why what happened a week ago was the biggest nightmare rachel i have so many questions about this. So, the first, this is not cheap to do this. So you wonder where, how where the money comes to build pete a hamas decides to use humanitarian aid. Rachel exactly. So from a fighting point of view, it looks pretty narrow. What does that mean for the fighting . Pete thats just one of them. There were tunnels with vehicler vehicles to drive through. Of it was a race against the idf. Theyd build a tunnel, the israelis would discover it and blow it up, and theyd build another tunnel. Thats why it brought to mind the radical islamist ideology to never stop and the thirst to kill jews. Will speaking of that thirst to kill jews or at the very minimum hatred of antisemitism, we did see a lot of that yesterday as hamas called for a global day of jihad, a day of rage all across the world. And the United States was no exception. We saw this in the streets of New York City, you saw it on American College campuses throughout the week, and you heard essentially the sentiment in their own words. Sara carter was out there, and she talked to people who took the part in this global day of entry had. How do you respond when people say, hook, these babies were beheaded, some of them were burned to death, there were children that were killed . Why, why not speak out against that and then, you know, protest later . Why protest now . Because theyre already killing hundreds of lives right now even as we speak. And were protesting until something ends, something stops forus. Do you think its going to ever stop when you well, the problem is as long as gaza is led by a terror organization, i dont see any different. Do you care about the babies that were beheaded they were never beheaded. That was a madeup story how do you knowsome. Thats not are true, thats [bleep] show me the pictures now. Youre a lying [bleep] if youre full of [bleep] they did not kill their babies. That is [bleep] so no babies no validation of that whatsoever. There is no proof of that. Netanyahu is basically running his own [bleep] narrative of what he wantses to excuse how does this end . Killing and genociding and holocausting all the palestinians its its a shame that hamas in the middle of New York City and say every, every day this is crazy, this is crazy. I dont understand how the American People dont afraid for this [inaudible] one mans terrorist is another mans freedom fighter. Dont forget it. Rachel that was in times square, correct . Pete yeah. Rachel that was in times square. So, again, or i saw the video of the babies being rocked to sleep and held and pacify if by terrorists. Pacified by terrorists. That is the most sickening, as a mother, frightening image. I was i dont understand. Pete that was hamas attempt to look like they were rachel it didnt work. It made me so scared. Pete just murdered their parents, and now youre you know, this is where we live in a world where we dont even have objective facts. And trey yingst has been into these neighborhoods, into these places, looked into the camera and said ive been in these kibbutzes, ive seen the bedrooms, the children, where the Maas Can Kerrs have taken place massacres have fake then place. There are plenty of times in war where narrative and propaganda occur, no doubt about that. Rachel 100. Pete in this particular case, considering the amount of cameras trained on locations, its t hard to believe people deny that. Will i think its true the first thing that dies in washington is the truth. Rachel yes. Will weve had this discussion on the couch, and its quite honestly a discussion you wont hear many places. I actually dont begrudge Vladimir Zelenskyy or ukraine engaging in propaganda da. I dont begrudge any combatant in a a war using propaganda. Their job is to fight with every ounce for their tribe. What i begrudge is our leaders whose job is to do the best we can to find the truth of not cutting through propaganda. When it heard from this particular if line you heard from protesters on the fight thats happening online whether or not babies were beheaded, it is essentially splitting hairs between the fact that babies were undoubtedly killed. Rachel and kidnapped. Will i dont know what is true, what is confirmed, what is not, the Biden Administration has not conifer firmed confirmed on that particularly narrow slice of the story. Its not a narrow slice of the story to say in fact pure terror and savagery unleash ared on a population. That is true. If. Pete yeah, that civilians were target in their homes intentionally is objectively true. Rachel yeah. Pete and by trying to make the whole argument about beheading of babies, they excuse away the entirety of it. Rachel and really the onu