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.

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

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'Zionists, go home!' chanted at anti-Israel protest in London

One of the protest's attendees brought a sign saying "Stop the Judaization of Jerusalem, and Britain, Europe, Ukraine and USA."

DEMONSTRATORS GATHER at Kensington Palace during a protest in London on Saturday.

Operation Breaking Dawn: What's changed in the Israel-Gaza conflict?

The buildup leading to this operation was somewhat similar to Operation Black Belt both in its target and in its effort to thwart planned attacks against Israelis.

 ANOTHER BRICK in the wall: Inspecting the damage to a house following Operation Breaking Dawn, in the Gaza Strip, August 8.

WATCH: IDF aborts attack on Islamic Jihad outpost due to presence of little girl

The Israeli military can be seen tracking the girl to ensure she is a safe distance away before conducting the strike on the post.

 A Palestinian girl is seen at an Islamic Jihad outpost targeted by the IDF during Operation Breaking Dawn

Amid Gaza border rocket barrages, Israelis develop resilience - opinion

When everyone works together toward a common goal, even the most dire situations can be overcome and life can go on.

The Jewish National Fund-USA Roklen Resilience Center in Sderot, where animal-assisted therapy has been provided in the past.

Civilian casualties: The real cost of Operation Breaking Dawn - opinion

Us vs them: While the statement is technically framed as conditional, the speaker assumes that the choice is inevitable: Our children or theirs.

 PALESTINIAN CHILDREN walk through the rubble of a destroyed building in Gaza City, following Operation Breaking Dawn

The Gaza operation, in perspective

Given the fact that it is only a matter of time before Israel will once again have to go into Gaza for one reason or another, perhaps we need to recalibrate our goals.

 MEMBERS OF al-Quds Brigades, Islamic Jihad’s military wing, at a gathering for movement commander Khaled Mansour, slain on the first day of Operation Breaking Dawn, in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, August 8.

Israel's Yair Lapid and Benny Gantz: Dynamic duo or natural rivals?

INSIDE POLITICS: Lapid and Gantz have a complicated relationship, but in the Gaza operation they showed close partnership and cooperation.

 PRIME MINISTER Yair Lapid and Defense Minister Benny Gantz consult during Operation Breaking Dawn

Israel's military must be ruthless in Gaza, West Bank - opinion

This is the necessary Israeli strategic posture; this is the Israeli reality. It is the only true path to Israeli security, and ultimately to regional peace.

 IDF SOLDIERS operate in Hebron, this week: Israel must ensure that the West Bank is not militarized over the long term with its own forces, says the writer

Gaza conflict: Israel in times of crisis is a mix of routine, solidarity

NATIONAL AFFAIRS: When threatened or attacked, Israel's disparate parts have always come together.

 PEOPLE IN Ashkelon stroll on the promenade on Monday, soon after a ceasefire was declared between Israel and Islamic Jihad

Jihad and peace: When apples grow on cherry trees - opinion

The idea that there is even the slightest chance of achieving peace, let alone a “two-state solution,” with a society that promotes murder and welcomes martyrdom is laughable.

Palestinian Islamic Jihad militants attend a military parade in Gaza October 19, 2016.