• Satellite images have shown how Israeli forces are gearing up on the northern border of Gaza, as they prepare for ground invasion 
• Pictures have shown hundreds of armored vehicles including tanks, personnel carriers and bulldozers  
• The Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant has told soldiers at the border to ‘get organized, be ready’ for their move into Palestinian territory

Satellite imagery has revealed where Israel has deployed hundreds of tanks and armored vehicles, as it prepares to invade Gaza.

The military buildup seen in satellite images is some four miles north of the Erez Crossing, a primary entry point on Gaza’s northern border. 

Tanks and other armored vehicles are seen in the pictures, which were taken at the end of last week by Planet Labs. 

Among those include Merkava tanks, armored personnel carriers and militarized bulldozers, according to the New York Times.

Ahead of the ground invasion, Israel had demanded that the population of northern Gaza evacuate to the southern half of the territory.

Despite this, Israel have continued to fire on parts of the southern strip that had been declared safe zones. 

A residential building in Khan Younis, a city in southern Gaza where hundreds of thousands of Palestinians had sought shelter, was among the places hit.

Palestinian militants fired rockets into Israel on Thursday from Gaza and Lebanon, and tensions flared in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. 

In a fiery speech to Israeli infantry soldiers on the Gaza border, defense minister Yoav Gallant urged the forces to ‘get organized, be ready’ for an order to move in.

Speaking to the tens of thousands of troops that Israel have amassed on the border, he said: ”Whoever sees Gaza from afar now will see it from the inside … I promise you.

‘It might take a week, a month, two months until we destroy them,’ he added, referring to Hamas. 

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said his forces were fighting against the ‘worst monsters on the planet’. 

The Israeli Prime Minister added that this was during the ‘world’s darkest hour’ as he also warned there would be ‘ups and down’. 

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