VIDEO - BINT JBEIL – The tanks and armored vehicles stop at the middle of the night and we step out. After several hours of a tense ride across the border, it gives us the opportunity to unwind. Yes exactly at that point, when we feel safe, something whistles and lands with a huge thunder not far from us – a mortar shell fired by Hizbullah members. No one is hurt and everyone is back inside their vehicles in a hurry. The troops in this war include everyone: Young and old, regular soldiers and reservists, religious and secular, members of all ethnicities. Nobody says ''no" to Lebanon, everyone shows up – just like the story of Shai Shalev, 33, who traveled to the world championship of poker in Las Vegas. And then the war started. "We happened to turn on the television at the hotel and suddenly saw missiles hitting Haifa," he says. "We were stunned, and within a few days returned home. At 7:20 a.m. I walked into the house, at 7:35 they informed me I need to go back up north, and there I am. Is this a strange situation? Bizarre? "It's just going from one extreme to the other. From the world of pleasures in Las Vegas to the world of war here in southern Lebanon." It's morning in Bint Jbeil, also known as "Hizbullah's southern capital." The engineering crew I've been attached to takes controlling positions along with the other forces at the outskirts of the town. The armored corps, engineering troops, and infantry forces take positions and set up observation posts to prevent surprises. Everyone knows Hizbullah has some surprises left in store. Grisha Barzon from Kiryat Ata, near Haifa, says that only a few days ago he celebrated his 22nd birthday. Now it looks distant, very distant. Erez Hirshfeld, 20, who is known as "Stick" among his comrades, talks about the longing home, but at the same time stresses "how important it is for me to be here." Everyone talks about the sense of responsibility and about being the country's first line of defense. The sun is beating down, hunger sets in, and battle rations are pulled out. Staff Sergeant Ido Shbeinbaum is doing wonders with a culinary work of art based on a sweet combination of tuna, canned beef, peanuts, and olives. It looks good, but when it comes to taste opinion is divided. The sounds of artillery pound the ear drums incessantly. Second Lieutenant Ido Betito maintains his cool and shares his worldview with us: "We're here to defend residents of the North. The reports that we hear, just like today, abut another person killed in the Nahariya region, only reinforce our need to continue defending the State of Israel's northern border." Meanwhile, troops on the two-way radio are talking about wounded soldiers in the adjacent zone. We're inside Lebanon, and it is still far from being over.