LIVE UPDATES: Israel Reportedly Intercepts Rockets After Sirens Sound in Gaza Border Towns

The Palestinian enclave's health ministry said on Saturday that at least 24 people had been killed and 203 others suffered injuries as a result of the airstrikes targeting the Gaza Strip under Israel's operation Breaking Dawn.

The Palestinian enclave's health ministry said on Saturday that at least 24 people had been killed and 203 others suffered injuries as a result of the airstrikes targeting the Gaza Strip under Israel's operation Breaking Dawn.

On Friday, the Israel Defense Forces launched the Breaking Dawn operation against the Islamic Jihad movement in the Gaza Strip and carried out missile strikes, initially killing 10 people and injuring over 50, according to the Palestinian health ministry. Following the airstrikes, Ziyad Nakhalah, the leader of Palestinian Islamic Jihad, threatened to retaliate by launching a missile attack on Tel Aviv. Israel introduced a state of emergency and has since been repelling missile attacks while continuing to launch new strikes on the Gaza Strip.

Furthermore, airborne alert sirens are being heard in the city of Modi'in in central Israel and in the south of the country, as well as in the city of Tel Aviv, the Israel Defense Forces said on social media.

Moscow is calling on all parties to the conflict in the Gaza Strip to exercise restraint and respect the ceasefire regime, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Saturday.

"Moscow is seriously concerned about the new wave of armed violence in the zone of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. The Israeli air force's airstrikes triggered another escalation on August 5, in response to which Palestinian armed militants launched a massive indiscriminate shelling of the Israeli territory," the ministry quoted Zakharova as saying.

Russia expresses deep concerns about the situation, she said, adding that this "is fraught with the renewal of full-scale military confrontation and further deterioration of the already deplorable humanitarian situation in Gaza."

"We are calling on all parties involved to exercise maximum restraint, prevent the escalation of hostilities, and immediately return to the sustainable ceasefire regime," Zakharova concluded.

The European Union is concerned about the escalation of the conflict between Israel and the Gaza Strip, and calls on the parties to prevent the aggravation, EU spokesman in the Palestinian Authority, Shadi Othman, said.

"The EU is following with great concern the events in the Gaza Strip which have resulted in a number of casualties, including among civilians and children... It is necessary to prevent a wider conflict that will primarily affect civilians on both sides, and lead to large casualties," Othman said.

The Gaza Power Plant (GPP), the only power plant in the Palestinian enclave, suspended operations amid an escalation with Israel, the Gaza Strip Energy Authority said on Saturday.

"The power plant will be completely shut down today, at 12:00 p.m. [09:00 GMT]," the agency said in a statement.

Representative of the Gaza Strip Energy Authority Muhammad Tabet said that in connection with the shutdown of the GPP, electricity would be supplied to residents only four hours a day.

The Gaza Strip depends on two sources of energy, the GPP, which provides a maximum capacity of about 80 megawatts, and Israeli power lines that can provide up to 125 megawatts.

On Friday, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) launched an operation dubbed Breaking Dawn against Palestinian movement Islamic Jihad in the Gaza Strip, and carried out missile strikes, killing 10 people and injuring over 50, according to the Palestinian health ministry. A state of emergency was declared in the Israeli rear as retaliation rockets flocked in. The Palestinian group Islamic Jihad confirmed the death of one of its commanders, Tayseer al-Jabari, in one of the airstrikes.

The Israeli troops have detained 20 Palestinians last night during another anti-terror raid in the West Bank, with 19 of them belonging to the Islamic Jihad group, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said on Saturday.

"Overnight, IDF, Shabak [the Israel Security Agency] and Israeli Border Police conducted counterterrorism operations to detain Islamic Jihad militants in several locations in Judea and Samaria [the Israeli name for the West Bank]... So far, 20 suspects have been detained, 19 of whom are Islamic Jihad militants," the IDF said in a statement.

The raids by the Israeli security forces have been carried out in the Qalandiya refugee camp, in the cities of Beit Ummar and Surif, and the towns of Idhna, Hebron, Nur Shams, Bir al Basha, and Sanur.

The detainees were handed over for further interrogation, with no Israelis injured, the military added.

On Friday, the IDF launched an operation dubbed Breaking Dawn against Palestinian movement Islamic Jihad in the Gaza Strip and carried out missile strikes, killing 10 people and injuring over 50, according to the Palestinian health ministry. Following the airstrikes, Ziyad Nakhalah, the leader of Palestinian Islamic Jihad, threatened to retaliate by launching a missile attack on Tel Aviv. Israel has since been repelling missile attacks and launching new attacks on Gaza Strip.