As the Israeli military's ground forces advance into Gaza City, Prime Time has been compiling satellite images taken in recent weeks into a single detailed image to try to understand the scale of military operations and destruction.

Combined with footage from the ground, they help tell the story of the Israeli military’s incursion into the enclave.

On 27 October, Israeli forces entered the Gaza Strip for the first time since 2014. Their plan is to wipe out Hamas, the group that has controlled the Palestinian enclave for almost two decades.

Images captured by commercial satellite provider Planet Labs in the days following show how they breached the Israel-Gaza border wall in the northwest of the enclave, and in the west.

A highly detailed satellite image from Planet Labs shows heavy vehicles tracks like those associated with tanks and other military vehicles spooling from north to south near the coast.

The route spools south down the western side of the enclave, continuing for 6km.

At least a dozen Israeli military positions can be seen within this 6km stretch near Gaza's northwest coast. Multiple tanks and armoured vehicles can be seen along the route position.

Dozens of craters mark the landscape, evidence of the weeks of Israeli bombardment that preceded the ground operation.

Whole neighbourhoods were flattened during that campaign, which particularly targeted the region where ground forces have since been operating.

To the east of where Israeli forces initially entered, satellite imagery from another company, Maxar, shows residential areas in the area of Beit Hanoun that appear to have been almost wholly flattened by airstrikes.

Prior to the attacks of 7 October in which Hamas killed more than 1,200 Israelis and kidnapped more than 230 others, Beit Hanoun had a population of approximately 30,000.

Rows of streets across Beit Hanoun, as well Al Karameh, 'Izbat, Atatra, and others have been levelled by airstrikes.

Grey rubble can be seen in the images taken on 21 October, where the buildings once stood. Footage released by the Israeli military on 11 November showed what it described as its forces operating in the area demolishing Hamas infrastructure.

The footage shows paratroopers moving from house to house and tanks moving through rubble-filled streets in the districts.

Israeli airstrikes have also targeted refugee camps, of which there are eight officially in Gaza. They are some of Gaza's most densely populated and poorest areas and typically lived in by people whose descendants fled their ancestral homes during the war that followed the declaration of the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948, which Palestinians call the Nakba.

The largest is Jabalia camp, southwest of Beit Hanoun and north of the centre of Gaza City. Jabalia refugee camp was where the first Palestinian intifada began in 1987, and the Israeli military has long considered it a Hamas stronghold.

Prior to 7 October, 50,000 people lived within its 1.4 square kilometres. Since, it has been hit by Israeli airstrikes.

Satellite imagery taken on 1 November by Maxar shows the aftermath of an airstrike on the camp the previous day in which dozens of people were reported killed.

Israel said the strike killed Hamas commander Ibrahim Biari, who it said was a ringleader of the deadly attacks on 7 October.

The image shows at least a dozen buildings destroyed and a large crater in the centre.

The impact of such strikes is not limited to the initial explosion.

Large fires can be seen burning around the city in other images taken on 7 November.

The fires and bombardments continued as Gaza City has been gradually encircled by Israeli ground forces, which have moved from north to south, but concurrently east-west.

To the south of the city, Israeli military vehicles have advanced from the Israeli border to the coastline, cutting through two main roadways running south, encircling Gaza City.

Deep tank tracks stretch from the Israel-Gaza border westward towards the coast road. The tracks create a route that cuts across the width of the enclave.

At least a dozen Israeli military positions with multiple groups of armoured vehicles and newly created protective mounds can be seen along the route.

Since splitting the enclave in two, Israeli forces to the south have moved to try to reach their colleagues who entered from the north.

Satellite imagery taken by Planet Labs on 6 November and Maxar on November 11 show evidence that a large number of people have been sheltering around Al-Shifa hospital, Gaza's largest. Doctors and the Hamas-run health ministry said tens of thousands of people have been living in the grounds of the hospital.

The surrounding area has been the site of intense recent fighting, which led to desperate pleas for help from hospital staff who say they are unable to treat patients due a lack of power, medicine and food supplies.

Israel cut imports, electricity and water supplies into Gaza in the wake of the Gaza attacks, and since then the situation has grown increasingly desperate.

On Monday 13 November, the World Health Organization said as a result the hospital was "no longer functioning." Reuters news agency reported that 650 patients, including newborn babies, remain at the hospital. Doctors in the hospital say they are treating patients without anesthetic and disinfectant.

The Israeli military says an area north of the hospital represents Hamas’s "military quarter", and footage released by both it and Hamas in the days prior showed close-quarter fighting on the streets around 2km from the hospital.

It said Hamas rockets and rocket launchers had been found during searches of nearby locations.

Hamas released footage from the same area, which appeared to show its fighters firing at Israeli tanks with shoulder-mounted anti-tank weapons.

Prime Time geolocated part of the footage, in which a tank was struck at a staging area positioned less than 500 metres from the coast and roughly 3km to the north of the Al-Shifa hospital.

Hamas said the footage was taken between the 7-8 November, however Prime Time could not confirm this.

On 12 November the Israeli military released footage it said showed its troops operating in the Al-Shati refugee camp, less than 2km north of the Al-Shifa hospital. The footage shows Israeli tanks and troops patrolling residential streets near the coast.

The Hamas-run Gaza health ministry said on 13 November that 11,240 people, including 4,630 children, had been killed since 7 October.