This isnt going anywhere. Our cameras take you on an exclusive tour of the iron dome air defense system. They have been incredibly active and have intercepted more than 500 rockets and more than 3,000 rockets have been launched from gaza. And youll meet the brave men and women of the idf. Our people in israel are being attacked every day, are being threatened and i believe were the only country in the world that has to face such a threat. Hannity on the ground in israel and it all starts right here, right now. A senior israeli official says that the government has accepted an egyptian ceasefire. The truce is said to begin on Tuesday Morning but given the records on the past ceasefires, rick is on the ground in gaza city. Rick . Reporter sean, its a good question. Fresh hope or false hope. The security cabinet approving this new 72hour ceasefire with hamas scheduled to begin at 8 00 a. M. Tuesday. But weve seen this movie before. It is the same deal that was in place last week. 90 minutes later, hamas killed three Israeli Soldiers and broke that ceasefire agreement. This one was proposed by the palestinians, encouraged by the palestinians, supposedly an israeli delegation will head to cairo to negotiate a permanent ceasefire agreement with hamas. Today is expected to be quieter and it was for the most part. Although, we saw dozens of rockets fired and more than 10,000 homes and businesses have been heavily damaged and destroyed. The palestinians report more than 1800 deaths here and more than 9,000 wounded. Many of them civilians. Of course, israel blames hamas for these civilian casualties says it is using weapons from civilian strongholds. It is firing weapons from homes, from schools, from businesses and israel says it has little choice but to respond when its nation is fired on. There were also some casualties in jerusalem today, sean, in a sort of bazaar attack carried out by the Israeli Police by a palestinian who is living in east jerusalem. He stole, according to the Israeli Police a. Construction excavator and then used it to knock over a city bus. The bus was empty except for the driver who was injured. Unfortunately, there was a passerby, a pedestrian who was killed, a 29yearold father of five, before police opened fire and killed the man who stole the construction excavator. They are on alert for more possible attacks because of the animosity on both sides. You know, rick, we keep hearing well, you said weve seen this movie before but even when we arrived here in israel earlier today, supposedly they were in the middle of a ceasefire. We keep hearing this but the israelis remain committed to break up the infrastructure and the funnel infrastructure that i went into earlier today that leads into israel. Do you have any indication that this has been fixed . Reporter well, it really depends on hamas if you talk to the israelis. They make the agreements and then hamas continues to break those agreements. Its a wait and see kind of situation. Israel is taking, as you know, a barrage of rockets on a bailey bay basis. We saw a number of them fired near our position here and we saw the iron dome that youre near put to good use. We saw three rockets shot out of the sky as they headed in your direction. So the iron dome is being used. Its working for the most part. Again, this barrage of rockets continues from hamas, from the gaza territory. By the way, rick, we heard a big explosion and were going to go back to you later in the show. Rick leventhal, thank you so much. Earlier i spoke with idf troops who had just returned from a mission to search and destroy hamas tunnels. This is what they told me earlier today. So here we are, we are literally at the gaza border and this idf team just got back from a mission. Successful . Hes from st. Louis, missouri, right . I am. How did you get here . I moved here two years ago. It was my dream to serve here and here i am. So how long were you in gaza . Weve been here 3 1 2 months altogether. Been here since the very beginning. Not much sleep . Not too much, no. Right behind us is where the gaza is. How many rocketlaunching places did you see . We didnt see too many. Were here for the tunnels. Thats what were doing. How many have you seen of those . Because we just got out of a tunnel . Are you as shocked as i am about the level of sophistication . They are using israeli mortar, israeli electricity and instead of helping the palestinian people, they are building tunnels so they can go into israel and kill people. Just tunnels to kill us. Thats why were here. Have you lost any friends . Yes. Tell us about im from north carolina. We have two americans over here. Why did you come . My family moved five years ago. My dad still works there. Why did you feel you wanted to serve . Same thing. Its always been my dream. I would have been like sort of to do it. So youve been out there since it started . Yeah. Mostly tunnels . Yeah. Lots of tunnels. How many when all is said and done, how many tunnels do you think youre going to find . Are you surprised at the level of engineering and sophistication that goes into them . Well, im not sure how many tunnels but, yeah, they are very sophisticated. Lots of things we didnt think wed see and then for example . Just the amount of money and time spent into making one of them. Right. Look, any time youre in a war zone, any time youre in a tank, any time youre next to an enemy that has in their charter that they want to kill you and destroy your country, its dangerous. Do you think about it . Sure. Of course we think about it. They are our neighbors, unfortunately. And what about people both of you have this perspective, because youve both lived in the United States and yet there are some people that keep saying, israel needs to engage in a ceasefire. What would you tell them, having seen all of these tunnels, having seen the rockets being fired, some 3,000 of them. From your perspective living here, what do you tell them that maybe they dont understand . That it began with three weeks of rocket fire. We didnt do anything. We met with calm and peace and it continued. For thei were here to destroy the tunnels. Make israel a safer place to be. Pretty sick that they have a group of people for no real reason that has a charter that wants to object literate israel. Thats what is in the charter. Thats the people we have to make peace with. Is it possible . Unless they change, i dont see it is possible. Not with hamas in power. Do you agree . Yes. And there were a couple of ceasefires in the middle and the last ceasefire they killed a bunch of within two hours . Yeah, within two hours. They kidnapped supposedly a soldier . Yeah. And its supposed to be a ceasefire today. We saw one of the iron domes. So theres no ceasefire today. Thats every ceasefire. Thats how it is. Its just onesided. You can see life in the war zone, these guys every day, imagine if you lived in a country 3,000 rockets being fired into your cities and a sophisticated Tunnel Network that was designed to kidnap your sons and daughters. How do i get up here . How yall doing . How are you . You just got out of gaza . Yeah. How was it . It was exciting, a lot of pressure. The soldiers are very they are excellent. How many tunnels did you find and how many rocket launching areas did you find . Every one of those monsters, we found about an average of five tunnels. And rocket launchers. Some we didnt see. Now, this particular piece of machinery, this goes in front of the tanks for the purpose of what . Okay. This leads the path for mines underground and on the first day we cleared around 50 miles or 50 bombs on the way to the so this would hit a bomb and it would go off and would the guys inside be protected . Exactly. How many friends did you lose . I specifically in my department, everyone is okay. Thank god. But i have some people that i knew very well that i lost and also my soldiers, a lot of people. Last question. Obviously youve seen the tunnels. Youve seen the rockets. You see twothirds of the israeli population now theyve been in bunkers in the last month. Why is risking your life so important . For the good guys, we cant send people attacking us from hate and reasons that are not reasonable. And coming up next, right here tonight on hannity, when we come back, well take you inside this tunnel that hamas has dug. Look at the level of sophistication and engineering, time, money, not spent on the people of palestinian, it was to create a terror function against israel. Coming up next, my report from inside the hamas tunnel as hannity on the ground in israel continues. Stay with us. [ female announcer ] this allergy season, will you be a sound sleeper, or a mouth breather . A mouth breather [ whimpers ] how do you sleep like that . Well, put on a breathe right strip and shut your mouth. Allergy medicines open your nose over time, but add a breathe right strip and pow it instantly opens your nose up to 38 more. So you can breathe and do the one thing you want to do sleep. Add breathe right to your allergy medicine. Shut your mouth and sleep right. Breathe right. Add breathe right to your allergy medicine. Oohh, you got it o i love the looks of it. sound of garage closing nobody touches my dodge dart, jake johnson not even your best friend slash neighbor . No one i can still get in craig id like to see you try all id have to do is roll in, dude. Lets see it i choose not to right now come on indiana common, let me in. Let me in mmmm let me sit in the car mmmm dont touch my dart welcome back to hannity. Were on the ground in israel. Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has made it clear there can be no end to this until all of the tunnels are destroyed. I saw with my own eyes just how extensive and sophisticated they really are. Take a look. You, meaning the israelis, actually dug down. You knew this tou thats deep. Its very deep. We know that the tunnel in front of us is about 14 meters deep. In order to allow us access to it and really Operational Flexibility to deal with the tunnel, we had to dig and to get down there. Look how far down. Its a pretty steep hill. Yeah. And you guys actually excavated this. Watch out there. Its steep. So that you can have access. This is actually a midpoint of the tunnel . Yes. This is an access point. We know that the projected exit point was actually about 300 meters from the nearest community, Residential Community right here. So its clear to us and its obvious from what we see on the ground that the goal was to have exactly. 10, 15 Hamas Terrorists in the middle of the night surprise that entire community and just pop up from a tunnel. This may surprise us. Well go down, a lot of the cement that was here was provided to the palestinians by israel . Yes. We know that the tunnel here has been built with cement and its come in as aid to the gaza strip. This is really sophisticated, engineered Tunnel Network. Tens. 15, 16 more . Yeah. It wouldnt be a crazy estimate. We know when we look inside you can see the engineering and architecture. This is not dug haphazardly. This is a real Tunnel Network with wiring . With wiring. Its important to note that when we found this tunnel, there were track along the ground to allow for exit of material that was being dug. There was electricity. Israeli electricity . Yes. Okay. And israeli cement . Exactly. That would have otherwise have been used for schools and infrastructure and building peoples homes . Exactly. Okay. This is one of maybe 50, 60. All right. You found a number of them and israel is in the process of breaking up this infrastructure . Exactly. Did they leave it in place and then they have the infrastructure to come in and kidnap three israelis, maybe like they did with the three students . Exactly. Theres clear tunnels and passageways to a community here. If you can look at the excavation here, this is really important. If we can pan out and look straight up here, i cant estimate the feet. What are we, 40, 50 feet . Easily. Easily down into the ground. And so thats how deep this is and how, again, they did this not in one place but in 50, 60, 100 locations. Exactly. It makes this the state of israel vulnerable. Very much so. The fact that we have these tunnels possibly under our feet, under the communities that are littered all around this area, this is no greater definition of a threat. All right. Headfirst or feet first . However you want. All right. Maybe ill go this way. It seems small in the beginning but it really isnt. First of all, this is important libby, are you coming in . Im good. Im good. Thank you. The way you film is important. You literally this is all here. This is all wiring. Yep. All of the wiring, we found tracks. Okay. What are these here what are these tracks for . Reinsuran reinforcement . Reinforcement and electrical wires to wire the place with electricity. How far will this tunnel back . It goes for a kilometer, 300 meters. Estimate of miles . I would say probably about half a mile to a mile. About half a mile to a mile. Now, i used to be a contractor. Look at the level of sophistication here. Youve got these cement walls and blocks. All the same size. All the same shape. All the same size, all built out, all pieced together. By the way, the construction overall, very solid. Very. This isnt going anywhere. So they worked their way all the way through. We estimate that the progress took about two, three years. And a lot of money. And a lot of digging to get this. This is cement that is incredibly valuable pricewise. Its going towards terrorist tunnels. Unbelievable. So were going to move back and move a little further. Literally we could walk this for an entire mile and still im 6 foot tall and you can stand. I can stand. So i would say its about 59 up in the air. Now, what is this thing here . What is this canister . This is from our troops. They were in here understanding what was going on. Again, keep in mind, destroying these kinds of tunnels requires troops to go inside, possibly look for bobby traps. Were now beginning to see the tracks. Tracks. These tracks, i assume, are used as they bring the reinforcement as they get further and further along and this helps to ex pedite the building. Exactly. It helps shovel owl the sand and the dirt that were seeing in here. Im actually standing on what seems like track. Obviously they would use something to go along the tracks to move there. Thats pretty unbelievable. All right. Again, this infrastructure is here. This wiring, sophisticated behind the cement blocks. Unbelievable. Again, we forget this is millions of dollars. 2, 3 million per tunnel. What happened to feeding the palestinian people. Right. Rather than take the cement and build schools and businesses, we have terrorist tunnels. We have tunnels that literally bring Hamas Terrorists to the homes of the israelis. Unbelievable. And this is what the Prime Minister of israel has been talking about when he talks about the tunnels and the infrastructure. This is the very thing that hes trying to break up here. By the way, this is one that you found pretty early on, right . Correct. Since then youve found 30, 40 . Yes, several dozen. And looking for many more . Yes. Now, if you can, turn the camera around and lets see how far there are steps back there. Does that look like part of the tracting . It seems to go into a curve. Lets walk down that and through that and go back a little further and see what things look like back there. The cement stops here and i want to look at what that is. That seems to be the natural so if that is the natural rock that is broken up, obviously theres a lot of jackhammering going on and serious we found drills. We found highquality drills here as well. Yeah. Unbelievable. And this will go for another full mile into either a mosque or a hospital or a school or exactly. Any kind of civilian location. And coming up, i traveled to the side of the iron dome. We get a firsthand look at israels defense system. That and much more as hannity on the ground continues straight ahead. I make a lot of purchases for my business. And i get a lot in return with ink plus from chase. Like 50,000 bonus points when i spent 5,000 in the first 3 months after i opened my account. And i earn 5 times the rewards on internet, phone services and at Office Supply stores. With ink plus i can choose how to redeem my points. Travel, gift cards, even cash back. And my rewards points wont expire. So you can make owning a business even more rewarding. Ink from chase. So you can. Welcome back to hannity. Were in israel and israel is crediting its iron dome Missile Defense system with intercepting many of those rockets. By the way, its right behind me and it prevents strikes in major cities across the country. Libby weiss gave me a tour of one of the iron domes earlier today and we have another one behind me. Take a look at this, though. We are at nine operational iron domes which is literally protecting the entire country of israel. Joining me is libby weiss. How long have you been with the idf . About three years. Nonoperational iron domes, when you pulled up, literally we heard an explosion, a rocket being taken out of the sky. Yes. How often is this happening . This is happening constantly. In the last 20 something days of the operation, nearing 30 days, these iron dome matters have been incredibly active. They have intercepted more than 500 rockets and more than 3,000 rockets have been launched from gaza into israel. They are working 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Whats fascinating is the int kra see and how complicated it is and how Computer Generated it is. For example, the entire system is all interconnected, correct . A rocket is fired. Walk us through that process where they decide if its going to hit a heavily populated area or not. Of course. The system was able to calculate the trajectory of the incoming rocket, to calculate will it land in ashkelon or jerusalem or an open area where no civilians or no important assets are at risk. If the calculation indicates that it will land in a civilian area, its intercepted and this whole area is a matter of seconds. We do not have time to intercept these rockets and its a calculation made within seconds. And its computer talking amongst each dome knowing which one should fire . Exactly. Where they anticipate it would land . Yes. All of the systems are connected with one another and then, of course, theres the Human Element which our soldiers are sitting and really are able to be part of the system. What about the 15 seconds that we hear from the time that the alarms go off that you really have to get to a shelter . Is it literally 15 seconds . Its literally 15 seconds. Unfortunately, for most israelis who live here in the southern part, 15 second escape is part of their daily routine. Everywhere they go, they se