Operation Breaking Dawn

Tisha B’Av lessons: Compromise over conflict to avert catastrophe - comment

Operation Breaking Dawn took place exactly two years ago, with a ceasefire declared on Tisha B’Av (August 7, that year). It was the fifth major campaign that the IDF had launched in Gaza.

 IDF strikes Gaza during Operation Breaking Dawn, August 2022
 IDF training exercises 2022.

Gaza, Syria quieter as West Bank ramps up - IDF 2022 stats

Iron Dome anti-missile system fires missiles as rockets fired from the Gaza Strip to Israel, in Ashkelon on August 7, 2022.

Rockets fired from Gaza into Israel for first time since ‘Breaking Dawn’

 IDF soldiers work to arrest Palestinians as part of Operation Break the Wave

IDF can't keep up West Bank operation due to logistics shortage - comptroller


Operation Breaking Dawn and politics around it - comment

At the time of writing, we do not know whether the prayers at the Kotel, and visits by Jewish groups to the Temple Mount itself on Tisha Be’av will be held without limitations or interruptions.

 POLICE INSPECT a vehicle that was damaged following a rocket attack from Gaza, in Ashkelon on Saturday.

Operation Breaking Dawn was a long time in the making - editorial

Operation Breaking Dawn so far seems to have more in common with Operation Black Belt in which Al-Ata was killed and Hamas chose not to get openly involved.

The damage from mortar bombs that fell on the Erez crossing during Operation Breaking Dawn.

Gaza power plant closes, Palestinians have 4 hours of electricity daily

Gaza is chronically short of electricity and is never able to provide 24-hour service.

A view shows Gaza's power plant through a barbed fence in the central Gaza Strip January 16, 2017

Avigdor Liberman promises compensation for embattled residents

“It was fine, better than corona because kindergarten was open,” a resident of Kfar Aza joked, but conditions are rough. “I couldn’t even get to the end of an email [without sirens going off]."

 Finance Minister Avigdor Liberman at a cabinet meeting on 24/07/2022.

Did the assassination of Baha abu al-Ata fail? - analysis

Is IDF operation just another tactical success with no strategic win?

The home of Islamic Jihad commander Baha Abu al-Ata after it was hit by the Israeli strike that killed him, in Gaza City on November 12, 2019

Labor and Likud primaries may be postponed over security concerns

Both primaries are for the parties' lists for the Knesset and not for the lead of the party.

Israel's Labor Party holds primaries ahead of the March 2021 elections.

How Israel shot down false reports on Jabaliya explosion in Gaza

As it soon became apparent, the children’s tragic death was not at Israel’s hands. Though many Israel supporters lament Jerusalem’s poor public relations efforts, this time it actually worked.

 Palestinians gather at the scene where senior commander of Islamic Jihad militant group Khaled Mansour was killed in Israeli strikes, in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, August 7, 2022.

How are Israel's soldiers protecting the country under fire? - interviews

Iron Dome troops and a combat soldier speak to The Jerusalem Post during a lull in the violence on Israel's southern border.

  IDF soldiers on the border with Gaza.

Gov't opens trauma hotline for olim living in South

The center was established in collaboration with The Community Stress Prevention Center (CSPC).

 Israelis run for shelter during a rocket alert in the southern Israeli city of Ashkelon, on August 6, 2022.

Heavy barrage targets central and southern Israel ahead of ceasefire

Interceptions over Tel Aviv and Ben-Gurion Airport • Close to 1,000 rockets fired since the beginning of Operation Breaking Dawn

 The damage caused to a house and the surrounding from a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip in a Moshav near the border with the Gaza Strip on August 7, 2022.