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Addition to the original idf forces and brigades. do you have a way to know how vast this is? >> well, i think there was the 40,000 and then another 8,000, along with -- i think it's right around 50,000 ground troops right now amassed, and that's -- along with all the heavy artillery, like i maybed, 105-millimeter tank cannon, 55-millimeter howitzer, and then the f-16 eagles, apatch -- apaches and naval vessels. in terms of the force, i real do meant to know if it would be the full contingent -- i don't think so. i think there would be an initial, first wave of troops that would go in with the...

Mine fields. when you get close to the border, it's a no man's land. when we crossed the border coming into gaza, once you cross over to the gaza side, there's a long corridor and the first thing we heard was an explosion when we came in five or six days ago now, and then there's just nothing. it just wide open space. minefields. so they have get to through probably -- boy, maybe two miles two and a half, three miles, worth of all that open area, and they got to get through that first before they even start to get into gaza. so, it's a wide-open no man's land area full of mine and obstacles th...

Northeast. that's where the troops have been amassed. with the the d-9s, the bulldozers which are the tunnel busters. they've been coming in from the eastward direction and we have seen artillery fire looks like it's coming from the north and also from off the coast. so, -- again, it's so hard to hear because you have the fire from the east and then basically all directs and then of course the constant hum of the drones before us and, i see overhead in the distance what looks like a fighter jet. so they've been doing -- that's been a constant thing throughout the day that we have been here in ...