There is a brigade of Israeli soldiers being redeployed into Gaza. That doesn’t necessarily say much about the number of troops inside because they are often taken out and then redeployed, Al Jazeera’s Laura Khan reports from the occupied East Jerusalem.

“But what we do know is that there are at least four divisions operating inside of Gaza and often a division is made up of somewhere between 6,000 to 25,000 troops and there is one operating on the border.

“There are six brigade level combat troops operating inside Khan Younis at the moment …They are trying to take control of area because they say Hamas operatives are inside,” Khan says.

“There has also been an ongoing battles inside Gaza City. Israelis say they are relatively in control of the north, but what that means we don’t yet know because there has been a lot of fighting and the majority of casualties have come from the north, specifically an area along the border called Beit Lahia,” the reporter adds.