WATCH: NBC Reporter Gives A Look Inside ‘Largest Hamas Tunnel’ Found So Far

NBC’s Josh Lederman gave viewers a look inside what Israel called “the largest Hamas tunnel discovered so far.”

“This is the entrance to the tunnel and you can see how it goes from the surface of the Earth diagonally into the ground. You could easily see how they could fit a full-size vehicle down into this tunnel,” Lederman said on tape from northern Gaza.

He filed the rest of his report from Tel Aviv, where he told MSNBC’s Alex Witt, “What surprised me the most about this experience with this tunnel today was just how close it is to Israeli territory,” Lederman said, continuing:

We walked only about 10 minutes from the Israeli border through the Erez border crossing, which was breached by Hamas terrorists on October 7th, to this tunnel that you see right here, which Israel says goes 2 1/2 miles under the ground all the way to Gaza City. They say that Hamas was driving vehicles through it. You can see how it is reinforced with concrete, with plumbing, with electricity. It really speaks to the level of advancement that these tunnel systems really have developed over the years.

Witt asked, “Were you able to see rooms off the tunnel, something where a hostage could be kept, and/or supplies, artillery, weapons? Was there lighting in that tunnel? I mean, what was this like?”

“Certainly, a lot of these tunnels we have seen in other video, they’re like these narrow caverns, they seem kind of makeshift — this was not that. If you had told me that you could have fit a couple of hundred people in this tunnel, that would not be a surprising thing to say at all.” He continued:

And In the ground, the bottom of this tunnel, Alex, there were these shafts that went vertically down. Israel says that these were basically offshoots of the tunnel. From this main tunnel, here were these other legs that would go out, sort of like a spiderweb, they presume potentially to the offices or  homes of Hamas officials.

But they also say that, while they feel and believe they have cleared Hamas from this tunnel network, they can never be absolutely sure. And so, at a certain point in this tunnel, we were not allowed to go further because there were two Israeli special forces officers standing with their guns drawn, pointed in the direction of the distance within the tunnel, just in case any Hamas terrorists were to emerge.

Watch the clip above via MSNBC.