On Thursday, Israel’s Defense Minister Yoav Gallant told soldiers massed near the Gaza border they would soon see the territory “from the inside,” suggesting a ground invasion is imminent.

Defense Minister Yoav Gallant: “There can be no forgiveness, only total annihilation of the Hamas organization, its terror infrastructures, everything that has to do with terrorists and whoever sent them. It will take a week, it will take a month, it will take two months, until we eliminate them. You are not alone in battle.”