Fox News foreign correspondent Trey Yingst went into haunting detail as he reported on the carnage and destruction Israel has seen at the hands of Hamas.

For the past two years, Yingst has reported for Fox News from Ukraine, Afghanistan, and other areas ravaged by conflict. After reporting from Gaza City, Ashdod and parts of Israel that Hamas attacked, Yingst traveled to Sderot, providing updates throughout Monday on the crisis.

Yingst’s reporting took up the bulk of Outnumbered on Monday, and at one point, he and his team had to get down as Israel’s Iron Dome intercepted rockets flying above them. This was just one of several on-air moments when Yingst and his team had to duck for cover.

“We’ve got to take cover,” Yingst said. “This is what communities along the border are dealing with. It is constant fire. All of those short-range rockets were intercepted, but that is not always the case. Hamas and Islamic Jihad will fire rockets in way that they try to overwhelm Israel’s missile defense system, the Iron Dome. When they do that, it leads to casualties and it leads rockets slipping past missile defense, slamming into buildings.”

The coverage continued with Yingst telling Fox about how Israelis are trying to sift through the rubble of buildings destroyed nearby in order to recover the bodies of those who’ve been killed. As Yingst explained the attack, he became visibly emotional as spoke about how families are being forced to identify the bodies of their relatives.

A lot of the areas that were overrun by Hamas militants, the territory that they took in southern Israel. They haven’t been fully reclaimed. There are still battles ongoing to make sure the border is restored between Israel and Gaza.

And so, they don’t know if people are dead and in their home, or if taken to the Gaza Strip. It is a mixture, and that is important to note… There has been a center set up in Israel for families where they can give names and DNA. When you watch the Israeli press at night, you see scenes of parents showing up to — Sorry. It’s difficult. Parents showing up to give hair of their kids to the authorities to see if they can match the DNA to the bodies. Just horrific.

Yingst then reported on the buildup to Hamas’ attack, and the Israel Defense Forces’ response, which he said “will be a ground war that Israel has not seen in decades. ”

“It points to the fact that the region is on the brink of a disaster,” he said. “A larger conflict that could spill over. It could create a scenario where the entirety of the Israeli population is participating in this conflict, and a scenario where the United States — Israel’s closest ally — may have to get involved at a different level.”

Yingst’s coverage from Israel at night follows his daytime coverage where he broke down Israel’s mobilization for war with Hamas, plus the “horrific” scenes of the two sides trading fire as Hamas continues to hold their hostages. One of the most jarring reports Yingst provided was one where he looked at cars outside of the Gaza Strip that were riddled with bullet holes and covered with blood as a result of Hamas’ attack

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