Israel marks year since Hamas attacks as fighting rages

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******* marks year since ****** attacks as fighting rages

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****** gunmen ******* some 1,200 people and took 251 hostages in the 7 October *******

******* has held ceremonies to remember the victims of the mass killings and abductions carried out by ****** on 7 October 2023, against a backdrop of continuing fighting in Gaza and Lebanon.

A year on from the ******* – that saw some 1,200 people ******* and 251 taken ******** – ******** PM Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to stop such an ******** happening again, saying *******’s armed forces were “changing the security reality” of the region.

The conflict which followed ******’s ******* has seen almost 42,000 deaths in the Gaza Strip according to the ******-run health ministry.

As the day of commemorations unfolded, ******* said it intercepted more than 100 rockets fired by Hezbollah in Lebanon as well as projectiles launched by Yemen’s Houthis and from ****** in Gaza.

Last October, gunmen from ****** broke through the border fence and rampaged through nearby ******** villages, Kibbutzim, military posts and the Nova music festival.

On Monday, families of the hundreds ******* and dozens of people taken ******** at the festival gathered at the site early for the first memorial event of the day.

Holding pictures of loved ones they listened to the last track played at the festival before ******** President Isaac Herzog led a minute’s silence at 06:29, the moment that the ******* began.

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From dawn until dusk Israelis stopped to remember those who ***** on 7 October

In nearby communities which were also attacked by ****** gunmen, smaller events were held.

Elsewhere, Netanyahu visited the Iron Sword memorial in Jerusalem for victims of the ****** attacks, lighting a candle to “remember our fallen, our hostages”.

In Tel Aviv’s biggest park, ******** families gathered in for an event billed as the Bereaved Families Memorial Ceremony, which served as an alternative to the official government memorial ceremony.

Some of *******’s most popular singers gave emotional performances, while the images of victims flashed on the screens.

The stage was adorned with items symbolising the attacks including burnt and broken cars from the Nova music festival; a child’s bicycle and swing set from the Be’eri kibbutz.

Outside of *******, President Biden joined other world leaders in condemning what he called the “unspeakable brutality” of the ****** attacks a year ago.

He also expressed horror at the subsequent war, saying “far too many civilians had suffered, far too much”.

Mourners also gathered at vigils around the world including in Australia, South *******, Germany and the ******* States.

In the ***, Sir Keir Starmer told the House of Commons he supported *******’s right to defend itself. But Britain’s prime minister insisted there was no military solution to the current crisis and appealed for all sides to “step back”.

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Smoke billows over Beirut southern suburbs after a strike from *******

However as the memorial services took place, the wider conflict in the region continued to rage.

The ******** military said Hezbollah had fired more than 130 rockets across the border from Lebanon. Most were shot down, but some hit the cities of Haifa and Tiberius.

Earlier ****** also launched rockets at Tel Aviv from Gaza. The army said ballistic missiles had been fired at ******* from Yemen, but were successfully intercepted.

Through the day, ******* carried out multiple air strikes and several ground incursions in Lebanon.

The ******** military said it was expanding operations against Hezbollah, warning residents in southern Lebanon to avoid using boats in the sea or rivers south of the Awali river.

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A displaced boy rests in a school in Beirut which provides temporary shelter to families

Three weeks of intense ******** strikes and other attacks in Lebanon have ******* more than 1,400 people, and displaced another 1.2 million, according to Lebanese authorities.

Hezbollah – a Shia Islamist political, military and social organisation that wields considerable power in Lebanon – has remained defiant despite suffering a series of devastating blows in recent weeks, including the ******** of its leader and most of its top military commanders.

On Monday, the group insisted it was “confident… in the ability of our resistance to oppose the ******** aggression”.

*******’s government – which designates Hezbollah as a ********** organisation – has pledged to make it safe for tens of thousands of displaced residents to return to their homes near the Lebanese border after a year of cross-border fighting sparked by the Gaza war.

The hostilities have escalated steadily since Hezbollah began ******* rockets into northern ******* on 8 October 2023, the day after its ally ******’s deadly ******* on southern *******.

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