Hamas military defeated, declares Israel

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****** military defeated, declares *******

*******’s army chief said on Sunday that ******** forces had defeated the military wing of ******.

Lieutenant General Herzi Halevi said that after a year of fighting since the October 7 *******, the ************ ******* group had been demolished, even as troops in northern Gaza continue to operate against what the military said were ****** attempts to rebuild.

“A year has passed, and we have defeated the military wing of ******… We have dealt a severe ***** to Hezbollah, which has lost all of its senior leadership. We are not stopping,” Lieutenant General Herzi Halevi said as he addressed troops ahead of the first anniversary of the October 7 massacre.

Lt Gen Halevi’s remarks reiterate those made in September by Yoav Gallant, *******’s defence minister, who said ****** “no longer exists” as an organised military force.

Lt Gen Halevi also said Sunday that ******* was fighting a lengthy war and vowed to ******** those who ******* *******, in both Gaza and Lebanon.

“This is a long war, measured not only by capabilities but also by willpower and perseverance over time,” Lt Gen Halevi said. “This is a war for our right to be a free people in our land”.

08:15 PM BSTThat’s all for today.

Thanks for following the Telegraph’s live blog. We’ll be back tomorrow with the latest updates on the war.

08:05 PM BSTQuds commander and senior Hezbollah official incommunicado for more than a week

The head of Iran’s Quds Force, Esmail Qaani, and Hashem Safieddine, the frontrunner to replace Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, have not been heard from since the ******** strike on Beirut late last week, according to reports.

Qaani travelled to Lebanon after the ******** last month of Nasrallah in an ******** airstrike and has been incommunicado for more than a week, two senior Iranian security officials told Reuters.

A Hezbollah official said Sunday that ******* was not allowing a search for Safieddine to progress after it bombed Beirut’s southern suburbs on Thursday.

07:31 PM BSTIran orders airports to close

Iran ordered its airports to close and cancelled all flights overnight ahead of the October 7 anniversary.

State media cited “operational restrictions” and gave no further details. Iran implemented similar restrictions on Tuesday before it launched missiles at *******, in an ******* to which ******* vowed to respond.

Iran fired some 200 ballistic missiles at ******* on Tuesday, testing the Iron Dome air defence system and hitting some air bases.

******* said it would respond at a time of its choosing, and is facing calls to ******** Iran’s oil facilities and strike its nuclear programme.

07:17 PM BSTSyria air defence intercepts ‘hostile targets’

Syrian air defence was intercepting “hostile targets” in the country’s central region on Sunday evening, state media said, a phrase usually used to refer to ******** strikes on the war-torn country.

“Our air defence systems are intercepting hostile targets in the airspace of the central region” of the country, the official SANA news agency said.

“******** strikes” targeted a “weapons depot south of Homs and a rockets depot in the eastern Hama countryside,” Observatory chief Rami Abdel Rahman told AFP, adding that the sites belonged to the Syrian army.

06:54 PM BSTSole British ******** still in Gaza ‘in *****’, says mother

The sole British ******** still in Gaza a year after she was taken by ****** has been “stripped of every human right” and ******** “in *****”, her mother said as she called for her safe return.

Mandy Damari spoke about her daughter Emily publicly for the first time, through tears, to thousands gathered in London’s Hyde Park for an event commemorating the October 7 attacks on *******.

The British-******** 28-year-old – an Ed Sheeran fan, London Zoo enthusiast, foodie and Spurs supporter, with a mixed sense of classic British humour and “******** chutzpah” – had had her “joy and light locked away” for a year.

06:30 PM BSTWar in Picturesdata:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///ywAAAAAAQABAAACAUwAOw==

******* army soldiers carry the casket of their fallen comrade Tal Dror, one of two ******** troops ******* in an ******* carried out by a drone launched ‘from the east’ – John Wessels /AFP

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A female ******** army soldier walks at a memorial for the victims ******* at or kidnapped from the Supernova music festival – Menahem Kahana /AFP

06:14 PM BSTGovernment backs police action against shows of support for Hezbolla

The *** Government has backed police to take action against protesters who show support for Hezbollah, after one man was arrested for allegedly shouting support for the banned organisation during a march in central London.

Tens of thousands of pro-************ demonstrators marched through the capital on Saturday, meeting counter-protests at several points on their route.

The Metropolitan Police arrested two people on suspicion of supporting a proscribed organisation, with one man held after allegedly shouting support for Hezbollah near a pro-******* counter-demonstration, according to the force.

Another man was arrested on suspicion of wearing or displaying an article indicating support for ******, which is also a proscribed organisation, after he was allegedly spotted wearing a parachute, the Met said.

05:31 PM BSTDon’t forget my daughter, says mother of only British Oct 7 ********

The mother of the only British ******** still

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said her daughter had been forgotten by Britain as she called on the Government to push for her release, reports Janet Eastham.

Mandy Damari’s 28-year-old British daughter, Emily, was kidnapped by

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terrorists from her village in southern

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On the eve of the first anniversary of the

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of Jews since the Holocaust, Mrs Damari appealed to the Government not to let her daughter or the other 100 innocent people still being held ******** “continue to be tortured or even murdered”.

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05:08 PM BSTPictured: Mother of ******** Emily Damari speaks at the Remembering October 7 event

Mandy Damari, mother of ******** Emily Damari speaks at the Remembering October 7 memorial event in Hyde Park, central London.

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Mandy Damari, mother of ******** Emily Damari, speaking at the Remembering October 7 memorial event in Hyde Park, central London – Jonathan Brady/PA

03:57 PM BSTYoung border guard named as victim of ******* ******* *******

Border officer Shira Suslik confronted the **********, was wounded, and later ***** from her injuries.

Reports suggest she was 19 years old. She leaves behind her parents and three siblings.

At least ten others were injured in the ******* at a bus station in the southern city of Be’er Sheva.

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******* border guard Shira Suslik ******* in ******* ******* – Hayom Heb/X

03:22 PM BSTIran’s leader rewards General for strike on *******

Iran’s leader pins a badge on top general Amir Ali Hajizadeh for planning the Iranian ******* on ******* on Tuesday night. The general is also linked to an ******* by Iran against ******* in April

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Iran’s leader rewards general for strike on ******* – AFP

03:00 PM BSTPictured: ******* ******* at bus station in southern *******data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///ywAAAAAAQABAAACAUwAOw==data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///ywAAAAAAQABAAACAUwAOw==

The scene of a ******* ******* at the Be’er Sheva central bus station, Oct 6. – Magen David Adom

02:39 PM BSTGaza journalist ******* in IDF strike

Journalist Hassan Hamad has been ******* in an ******** air strike on his home in the north of Gaza.

175 media workers have been reported ******* since the start of the war..

Hamad worked as a freelance TV reporter and his footage had aired on Al Jazeera and other networks.

Colleagues and the government’s media office in Gaza confirmed his ******, and said the late journalist’s home was deliberately targeted after he received threats.

******* denies targeting journalists.

02:18 PM BSTIsraeli media names **********

The ********** who ******* one and injured ten in an ******* at a bus station has been identified as Ahmad Said Suliman al-Ukabi, ******** media reports.

Al-Ukabi was a 29-year-old ******** citizen of Bedouin background, says the Jerusalem Post.

He is reported to be a relative of Muhannad Khalil Al-Aqabi, who carried out a similar ****** ******* at the same location in October 2015.

The ********** was shot ***** at the scene of the *******.

01:53 PM BSTCrowd surrounds ******* scenedata:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///ywAAAAAAQABAAACAUwAOw==data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///ywAAAAAAQABAAACAUwAOw==

Aftermath of ******* ******* in Be’er Sheva – X/X post, 6th Oct 2024

01:44 PM BSTParamedic pronounces woman ***** at scene of ******* *******data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///ywAAAAAAQABAAACAUwAOw==data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///ywAAAAAAQABAAACAUwAOw==

At the scene of the bus station *******, paramedic Boris Mento said: “We saw a young woman lying unconscious, without a pulse and not breathing.”

He added: “We conducted medical checks, but her injury was critical, and unfortunately, we had to pronounce her ***** on scene.”

During the search by MDA teams, several more injured people were found, fully conscious and suffering from injuries.

“We provided them with medical treatment,  stopping bleeding and administering pain relief, and evacuated them to hospital in a stable condition,” the paramedic said.

01:12 PM BSTIsrael strikes Iranian car factory in Syria

An ******** strike hit a car factory in central Syria, a war monitor said, in the latest such strike involving Syria or its border with Lebanon in recent days.

The raids struck an empty Iranian car factory in the central region of Homs, causing only material damage, the ***-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.

******* has promised to strike back after Iran launched missiles at Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, and Haifa.

The news from Syria follows a night of heavy ******** in Beirut, where the IDF continues its campain against Hezbollah. More than 30 airstrikes battered the Lebanese capital’s southern suburbs, where the group has a strong presence.

12:35 PM BSTIDF sends further troops towards Gazadata:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///ywAAAAAAQABAAACAUwAOw==data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///ywAAAAAAQABAAACAUwAOw==

As the ******** military prepares for possible ******* attacks on or around the October 7 commemoration events, additional defense personnel have been deployed near the Gaza Strip, the IDF said Sunday. 

“Following the current assessment, the Southern Command is preparing for both defensive and offensive scenarios over the coming month while ensuring the safe proceeding of memorial ceremonies near the Gaza Strip,” where communities were left devastated on October 7. 

A detailed combat readiness plan has been implemented, the IDF said. “The IDF’s Gaza Division has been reinforced with several platoons, with forces stationed to defend both the communities and the border area. The soldiers are fully equipped to defend the region in coordination with local security forces, the ******* Police, and Magen David Adom, ensuring a comprehensive response to any incidents that may arise,” a statement said. 

Additional units will be added to supplement the three divisions currently operating within Gaza.

12:25 PM BSTLebanon postpones start of school year

Lebanon’s acting Education Minister, Abbas Halabi, has postponed the start of the public school year to November 4th as ******** bombings continue across the country.

In a Sunday press conference, Halibi expressed hope that “the school year will not be lost, despite the difficult circumstances.”

Public schools in safer areas are now serving as shelters for hundreds of thousands of displaced people from southern Lebanon, the southern suburbs of Beirut, and the Bekaa Valley, which are under continuous airstrikes.

Private schools will continue remotely where possible.

11:49 AM BSTBritain in ‘lockstep’ with allies in calls for ******* to show restraint, says minister

Britain is working “in lockstep” with international allies on calls for ******* to exercise “restraint”, a Cabinet minister has said.

Science and Technology Secretary Peter Kyle said calls for “actions that lead towards a restrained political solution based on a ceasefire” were “unanimous” among the ***’s allies, as he took questions on Middle East from broadcasters on Sunday.

Kyle told the BBC: “We can’t instruct ******* as a sovereign state to do anything, but as key allies we can advise them and the advice is very clear.”

The minister also said the *** was “on standby” to remove British nationals from Lebanon, where ******* launched a ground invasion earlier this week, hitting Beirut’s southern suburbs during airstrikes.

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11:38 AM BSTView: The destruction of Oct 7 – through the eyes of a war photographer

On 7 October last year, Ziv Koren was at home in Tel Aviv with his seven-year-old daughter when he woke to the sound of sirens.

‘Over my 35-year career, I have always run towards what other people are running away from,’ explains the ******** photojournalist from his office in Tel Aviv. ‘I understood immediately that I had to do what needed to be done.

Over the past year, Koren has captured 350,000 images.

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11:27 AM BSTPictured: Aftermath of strike on Gaza mosquedata:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///ywAAAAAAQABAAACAUwAOw==data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///ywAAAAAAQABAAACAUwAOw==

Damage to a mosque hit in an ******** strike in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip, on October 6 – Majdi Fathi/Shutterstock

11:12 AM BSTHezbollah were tricked into holding pagers to maximise their injuries

Hezbollah members were reportedly duped into holding their exploding pagers in both hands when they detonated, in a ploy to maximise their wounds.

The ******-trapped devices featured a decryption feature that required the user to push two buttons at once to read coded messages, the Washington Post reported.

During the Sep 17 *******, the devices received text messages saying “You received an encrypted message.” As the device owners attempted to decode the message, the pagers exploded.

“You had to push two buttons to read the message,” one Mossad official told the paper, so that the blast would likely “wound both their hands,” rendering the user “incapable to ******.”

Less than a minute after that, thousands of other pagers were detonated by remote command, regardless of whether the user touched his device.

As many as 3,000 Hezbollah officers and members were thought to have been ******* or injured in the *******, along with an unknown number of civilians.

10:56 AM BSTLebanon’s border villages evacuate as ******* attacks continue

Villages on Lebanon’s border with ******* are in the ******* line as IDF forces move deeper into the country.

This includes many Shia areas in southern Lebanon where Hezbollah operates, as well as a few ********** villages like Debl, and Ain Ibl.

The IDF has called for residents to evacuate, but many ***** they may never be able to return to their homes.

“We are mostly afraid that our homes will be targeted and that those who have already left will not return,” said Imad Lallous, the mayor of Aan Ebel, told L’Orient-Le Jour.

A 93-year-old woman who refused to leave has been *******.

10:30 AM BSTPictured: Journalist sets himself on ***** at Palestine demonstration in Washingtondata:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///ywAAAAAAQABAAACAUwAOw==data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///ywAAAAAAQABAAACAUwAOw==

A journalist with CBS News self-immolates while yelling “Free Palestine” at a demonstration for Palestine and Lebanon, Washington, DC – Ting Shen/AFP

10:27 AM BST26 ******* in ******* strike on Gaza mosque

An IDF strike on a mosque-turned-shelter in central Deir al-Balah ******* 26 people, according to Gaza’s health ministry.

More were wounded.

“The number of martyrs brought to hospitals as a result of the occupation’s targeting of displaced people in the Ibn Rushd school and Al Aqsa Martyrs mosque reached 26, with several more wounded,” the health ministry said in a statement.

The Gaza civil defence agency had earlier said 21 people were ******* in the pre-dawn strike in central Gaza.

The IDF said in a statement that it had “conducted a precise strike on ****** terrorists who were operating within a command and control centre” at the mosque. It did not give a ****** toll.

10:18 AM BSTTel Aviv waits as war anniversary approachesdata:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///ywAAAAAAQABAAACAUwAOw==data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///ywAAAAAAQABAAACAUwAOw==

On the eve of the anniversary of October 7, the most deadly day for Jews since the Holocaust, Israelis remain poised for a retaliatory ******* against Iran after last week’s barrage of 181 ballistic missiles.

While some feel that to strike on the anniversary itself would be insensitive, others say it delivers a strong message at exactly the right time.

Hebrew media is awash with speculation about what the retaliation would entail, the biggest question of which is if Iran’s nuclear facilities will finally be struck.

However, the reality is that whatever the retaliation, the US will have to give the green light, in spite of the fact that the stronger Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s actions, the higher he rises up in public opinion.

Under the Biden administration, whose approach has thus far been one more of appeasement than the tough stance taken by former President Donald Trump, it is unlikely that anything more than critical infrastructure will be hit.

For Israelis too, it is felt that the operation against Hezbollah in the north alongside ongoing operations in Gaza, may well be the primary concern before the country truly sets its sights on a major operation in Iran. 

10:13 AM BSTIran’s oil minister visits key oil terminal amid ******* strike fears

Iran’s Oil Minister Mohsen Paknejad visited the oil terminal on Kharg island amid concerns that ******* could target it.

An ******** military spokesman said on Saturday that ******* would retaliate, following last week’s missile ******* by Tehran, “when the time is right.”

******** officials as quoted as saying that Iran’s oil facilities could be hit in response. U.S. President Joe Biden said on Friday that he did not think ******* had yet concluded how to respond.

“Paknejad arrived this morning in order to visit the oil facilities and meet operational staff located on Kharg island,” Iranian media reported, adding that the oil terminal there has the capacity to store 23 million barrels of crude.

China, which does not recognise US sanctions, is Tehran’s main client and according to analysts imported 1.2 to 1.4 million barrels per day from Iran in the first half of 2024.

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