[UPDATE Aug 8, 21:00Z] IDF – ‘Operation Breaking Dawn’: Air-Raid Warning Sirens Go Off in South of Israel

“Sirens sounding in southern Israel,” it said without providing any additional information. The Israeli army’s press service reported last Friday that the army had begun hitting targets of the Islamic Jihad group in the Gaza Strip in the operation codenamed Breaking Dawn. According to Israeli army’s estimates, about 15 radicals, including a group’s commander in northern Gaza, were killed in the first series of strikes. During the second stage of strikes, Israel’s special operations forces and artillery hit Islamic Jihad’s six military targets and their rocket launcher in the Palestinian enclave. The Israel Defense Forces has hit 139 targets within…