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>> this isn't 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 you'll meet the brave men and women of the idf. >> our people in israel are being attacked every day, are being threatened and i believe we're 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 cease-fire. the truce is said to begin on tuesday morning but given the records on the past cease-fires, rick is on the ground in gaza

city. rick? >> reporter: sean, it's a good question. fresh hope or false hope. the security cabinet approving this new 72-hour cease-fire with hamas scheduled to begin at 8:00 a.m. tuesday. but we've 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 cease-fire agreement. this one was proposed by the palestinians, encouraged by the palestinians, supposedly an israeli delegation will head to cairo to negotiate a permanent cease-fire 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 29-year-old 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 we've

seen this movie before but even when we arrived here in israel earlier today, supposedly they were in the middle of a cease-fire. 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. it's 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 you're 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. it's 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 we're 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? >> he's 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? >> we've 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 rocket-launching places did you see? >> we didn't see too many. we're here for the tunnels. that's what we're 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. that's why we're here. >> have you lost any friends? >> yes. >> tell us about -- >> i'm 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. it's always been my dream. i would have been like sort of -- to do it. >> so you've 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 you're going to find? are you surprised at the level of engineering and sophistication that goes into them? >> well, i'm not sure how many tunnels but, yeah, they are very sophisticated. lots of things we didn't think we'd see and then -- >> for example? >> just the amount of money and time spent into making one of them. >> right. look, any time you're in a war zone, any time you're in a tank, any time you're next to an enemy that has in their charter that they want to kill you and destroy your country, it's 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 you've both lived in the united states and yet there are some people that keep saying, israel needs to engage in a cease-fire. 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 don't understand? >> that it began with three weeks of rocket fire. we didn't do anything. we met with calm and peace and it continued. for thei we're 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. that's what is in the charter. >> that's the people we have to make peace with. >> is it possible? unless they change, i don't see it is possible. >> not with hamas in power. >> do you agree? >> yes. and there were a couple of cease-fires in the middle and the last cease-fire they killed a bunch of --

>> within two hours? >> yeah, within two hours. >> they kidnapped supposedly a soldier? >> yeah. >> and it's supposed to be a cease-fire today. we saw one of the iron domes. so there's no cease-fire today. >> that's every cease-fire. that's how it is. it's just one-sided. >> 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 y'all 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 didn't 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 you've seen the tunnels. you've seen the rockets. you see two-thirds of the israeli population now they've been in bunkers in the last month. why is risking your life so important? >> for the good guys, we can't 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, we'll 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

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welcome back to "hannity." we're 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 that's deep. >> it's 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. it's a pretty steep hill. >> yeah. >> and you guys actually excavated this. watch out there. it's 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 it's clear to us and it's 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. we'll 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 it's come in as aid to the gaza strip. >> this is really sophisticated, engineered tunnel network. >> tens. >> 15, 16 more? >> yeah. it wouldn't 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. it's 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 people's 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. there's 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 can't estimate the feet. what are we, 40, 50 feet? >> easily. >> easily down into the ground. and so that's 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 i'll go this way. >> it seems small in the beginning but it really isn't. first of all, this is important -- libby, are you coming in? >> i'm good. i'm 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. you've 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 isn't 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. it's going towards terrorist tunnels. >> unbelievable. so we're going to move back and move a little further. literally we could walk this for an entire mile and still -- i'm 6 foot tall and you can stand.

>> i can stand. >> so i would say it's about 5'9" 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. >> we're 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 we're seeing in here. >> i'm actually standing on what seems like track. obviously they would use something to go along the tracks to move there. that's 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 he's trying to break up here. by the way, this is one that you found pretty early on, right? >> correct. >> since then you've found 30, 40? >> yes, several dozen. >> and looking for many more? >> yes. >> now, if you can, turn the camera around and let's see how far -- there are steps back there. does that look like part of the tracting? it seems to go into a curve. let's 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 there's a lot of jackhammering going on and serious -- >> we found drills. we found high-quality 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 israel's defense system. that and much more as "hannity" on the ground continues straight ahead. i make a lot of purchases for my business.

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we're in israel and israel is crediting its iron dome missile defense system with intercepting many of those rockets. by the way, it's 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. >> what's 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 it's 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, it's intercepted and this whole area is a matter of

seconds. we do not have time to intercept these rockets and it's a calculation made within seconds. >> and it's 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, there's 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? >> it's 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 search for shelters. bus stops are all shelters as well. playgrounds, there are shelters. this has become, unfortunately, part of the every day routine of millions offi israelis.

>> we're about three miles from gaza. we were watching troops come back from an operation. daily occurrence? go daily occurrence. >> for those, for example, all of the political talk about whether or not this is the right thing to do and i notice that a lot of people seem to say, well, we need a cease-fire. what if israel doesn't take out the infrastructure of hamas? what does that mean for israel? >> for us i think the daily life here is impacted to such an extent that i can't imagine anywhere else in the world people would be able to live this way and would not feel the need to defend themselves. life here, life for millions of people has truly become intolerable and unliveable. this is a summer vacation. kids cannot play outside. for us, it's truly a matter of survival. >> one thing that really had an impact on me was down close to gaza we saw a playground. >> uh-huh. >> multiple shelters surrounding the playground. so i guess the alarm goes off and the kids run into the

shelter. >> they run into the shelter. >> that's how they grow up knowing? >> for us it's clear, target hamas, a terror organization to stop their ability to hurt us is a natural goal and operation. >> it seems with all of the talk of cease-fire i don't know if people read hamas' charter which is to object literate israel, right? >> hamas is a terrorist organization. it's a terror organization and operates in such a way by targeting israeli civilians and using its own civilians as well. >> you've been here three years and how many in that period of time, even prior to this conflict, how many rockets on an annual basis are being fired at israel? >> it's constant. it's truly a constant occurrence. it becomes to the point where we get used to it and we start to

feel as if it's a normal part of life. it shouldn't be for anyone. >> libby weiss, thank you for being with us. >> thank you. coming up next right here on "hannity" -- >> our people in israel are being attacked every day. they are being threatened and it's something that i believe that we are the only country in the world that has to face such a threat such as the people coming out of the tunnel. i spoke with more idf troops who are in charge of protecting a kabbutz and patrolling the gaza border. much more to come straight ahead.

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soldiers who were response bibl for protecting the gaza border. here's what they think about this war. hi, guys, nice to see you. so we're less than a mile from gaza where the fighting is going on. have you been out there? >> yeah. >> tell us. >> it's pretty crazy. but we're very selective of where we hit spots, not killing children, not killing women. it's very hard but where the hamas is standing is buried with schools and hospitals and all of that kind of stuff. >> so that's a direct order to avoid civilian casualties whenever possible? >> no doubt. >> how many tunnels have you been in? >> me myself, i've been in one. but there's hundreds. and they are all around gaza. >> what do you say to people that they make a moral equivalence between hamas, which is a terrorist organization, and israel, which only wants peace and you're trying to protect

your citizenry from getting hit with these rockets, what do you say to the people that don't understand? >> you know, it's surreal. all you can say is look at the picture, look at the reality. that's all i can say. >> 3,000 rockets is a lot of rockets. >> exactly. >> were you surprised by the number of tunnels that were dug and built? >> yeah, i was. yeah. took a few years, but yeah. >> israel seems to -- and everybody i have spoken to seems to have come together as a country more than ever. >> we're always coming together but i believe all over the world when there's war, especially war like this, we all come together, yeah. >> but not everybody says israel should have a cease-fire. a lot of people around the world says cease-fire. if you have a cease-fire, doesn't that infrastructure stay in place? doesn't that mean increase of a likely future attack? >> you're always going to have two opinions. one like this and one like this. you're never going to have one

side. >> did you drop any of the leaflets, we have images of the israeli military -- >> the air force does that. >> the air force drops the leaflets? >> yes. a few days before or few hours before. >> and they text and call? >> everything. >> when you are in gaza, how do the palestinians themselves treat you in? >> i guess it depends. it depends on each person, i guess. >> some are -- some of them -- i seriously think some of them want peace, just to live in peace. but some of them are with hamas. you can't speak for everyone, you know. >> when you go to just a little a mile away from the border and where the fighting is going on and we were earlier today at a playground and at the playground you have all of these bomb shelters, when you see that, what do you think? >> i grew up like that. it's not new for me. >> how are you? you speak english, right? >> yeah, that's right.

>> what do you say to how important this operations and to finish it? >> the operations very really important. we've been waiting for this for a long time. it's such a serious operation. our people in israel are being attacked every day. they are being threatened and it's something that i believe that we are the only country in the world that have to face such a threat such as the people coming out of the tunnel. and i'm -- as an israeli and as an idf warrior, a soldier, i really hope that this operation will put an end or a start to put an end to this threat and he a resolve this situation over there. >> how do you have peace with a group whose own charter calls for your destruction? >> you don't. >> you don't, yeah. >> exactly. >> you don't. >> not because we don't want to. we want peace. >> all right, guys.

good to see you. nice to meet you. very nice to meet you. thank you. >> and earlier today while we were on the ground, we met a cab driver who has lived his entire life in constant fear of the radical group hamas' rockets and he explained the real toll that it takes every day on the israeli people. >> very, very difficult to live here because you have 15 seconds to find shelter. i work here in the taxi. this is my taxi. yes. and no words. no words. the people are afraid to come outside. the children are afraid. i take you to some house, missiles inside the house. all the family are lucky because this is all of the building like this. this is all building.

i come from this side with my taxi. i hear the alarm. quickly i stop because i have 15 seconds. stop the car, i jump to this side, take the shoulder and take maybe five seconds and i hear the -- and i hear the strong boom. and it comes inside this house and i see the dust and the roof explodes and everything in the air. very, very -- very, very afraid because it's close to me. and quickly i take the taxi and leave this area because the ambulance and police and army, everybody comes to here and close the road. and i leave quickly. and this is not the first time.

seven missiles close -- landing close to me. seven missiles. the bombs are very, very strong and you can't live like this. it's impossible. no city the world accepts missiles every day. it is not logic. coming up, talking about the military offensive against hamas. that and much more as "hannity" continues on the ground in israel straight ahead. if you wear a denture, touch it with your tongue.

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going to guarantee what they are doing? >> we just manage to take care of most of them and -- >> you think so? >> of most of -- yeah. we are about finished taking care of all of those. we are aware of before we leave gaza probably tonight. and if there are some left, it's much less than what hamas had prepared for so many years. the idea of hamas was to enable them to infiltrate into israel and carry out major terror attacks. in this war, they have lost this strategic effort. when you look at that hamas is ready to have a cease-fire, you have to ask yourself -- >> why?why are they ready to do this now when they could have done this same thing three weeks ago. >> here's my question. but i've always admired israel's defense capabilities. you can go back to '48, '67,

even recent years, an incredible defense record of which you have spent your entire career. did you not know that this vast tunnel network >> and didn't know about it. and because looking for them on the ground is very civil we have an information system. and that involves us for three weeks >> general, thank you. >> thank you for everything. >> appreciate you being with us coming up, the rise of anti-semitism and radical islam spreading across the globe the rest of the world needs to wake up to what's happening where we are and how to deal with radical islamists we're going to speak to someone who knows, as we continue from israel, next. in new york state,

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welcome back to "hannity". since israel launched military operations to defend citizens in gaza, we've been witnessing anti-israeli protests around the globe. what is behind this rise of anti-semitism? joining me now is the commander of british forces in afghanistan. colonel, how are you?

honor to see you. >> thank you >> you see what's happening in france and germany. great britain and the united states, i put up a map the other day. it's around the globe. why this rise in anti-semitism? >> why we have not seen protests directed against he moenormous 200,000 people killed in syria? >> isn't it scary to see it in germany? europe? africa? middle east? israel, it's bad enough they're surrounded by islamic jihad and hamas and hezbollah and isis and al qaeda. now, in europe, africa? >> part of this is the result of hamas's policy of using human shields and causing the media to

be more dead palestinian children as human shields which incites violence and hatred against jews around the world. >> you're saying propaganda campaign by ham wras has been effective in creating a backlash against the israelis who have only been defending them selves? >> it's been effective. our world leaders have not stood up and told the truth as they know it to be. they've been pandering to the minority communities in their country to islamic feeling which is a hugely significant thus far. >> with the rise of anti-semitism we're seeing a rise in radical is slam. is the world standing up to these radical groups the way they should? >> many people in the world think you can appease your way out. it's refusing to accept the threat in the face thinking you can buy it off or

talk it off. >> does this remind you of the ideology if you want to wipe israel off the map, that is equivalent of wanting a modern day holocaust. >> i think radical islam is a huge element of the problem we face. and you can, it's got horrible, eerie similarities to what's happening, particularly when you think what's happening in germany and france the french collusion with the nazis responsible for the destruction of large numbers in jews in france we didn't see that in britain but we're seeing the similar kind of apeasement. >> what do you think of the united states under this president. has he done a good job? >> have you to look at the reaction to the united states now of countries like saudi arabia and egypt.

who feel themselves let down by failure of what was their closest ally and powerful ally to back them up against the threat not just from sunnis but perhaps the bigger threat of iran. >> colonel, thank you so much. that is all the time we have left this evening. one programming note. tomorrow night, 10:00 p.m eastern we'll be back here in israel we'll be interviewing israeli prime minister benjiman netanyahu from the iron dome right behind us. we're going to show you more of the inside of the conflict tomorrow, thank you for being with us we'll see you back here tomorrow night.

>> the o'reilly factor is on, tonight. anti-semitism on the rise provoked by israeli hamas conflict. here in the usa some jewish houses of worship have been assaulted we'll have a factor investigation the jihadist isis army the subject of videos threatening america this, one saying they will not stop until the flag of the prophet mohammed is raised over the white house. >> the whole thing with violence in the media, people are okay with that. but if you show a nipple, everyone goes crazy. >> dogs, cats swimming together? hysteria. >> part one of a special