Over 500 targets have been hit since start of Operation Protective Edge; IDF targets infrastructure sites used by Hamas's senior commanders; army strikes infrastructure used by organizer of failed beach raid.

Senior source says ''not a single Hamas brigade commander has a home to go back to,'' hints that some long-range rockets may be hidden under large civilian buildings in Gaza.

Rockets fired from the Gaza Strip kept pushing northward on Tuesday night when the rocket alert siren was blared in Caesarea.

For second time on Tuesday evening, Gaza terrorists launch rocket at central Israel; air raid sirens sounds in Jerusalem, central Israel; Tel Aviv opens public bomb shelters; no injuries reported.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Tuesday that the time had come to ''take off the gloves'' against Hamas.

Air raid siren sounds in Gush Dan region for first time amid recent Gaza escalations; Tel Aviv ordered to open public bomb shelters; no injuries.

Hamas terrorists commandos attempt a landing on Zikim beach across from an IDF army base near Gaza and exchanged fire with IDF forces.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) on Monday night announced the start of Operation Protective Edge in Gaza ‘’to stop the terror Israel's citizens face on a daily basis.''

IDF takes steps to enhance preparedness on the border including the calling of up to 1,500 reserves, municipalities of Ashkelon, Ashdod, Beersheba, and border communities ordered to open public bomb shelters.

At the weekly cabinet meeting on Sunday, Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu chastised ministers, including Economy Minister Naftali Bennett and Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, who spoke out publicly against the government’s policy on Gaza.