Barrages of rockets have been fired into Israel thcdisorrowfulmirefulout the day as Israelis label the anniversary of the 7 October strike.
Hundreds of relatives of prisoners and people finished in the strike collected for a memorial service in a central Tel Aviv park, although the event had to be scaled back becaemploy of menaces of leave outile fire.
Shortly before it began, sirens alerted of an incoming leave outile from Yemen and those collected were forced to lie face down on the ground until it was intercepted.
A second startant memorial was held by the rulement in Israel today, although the ceremony was pre-sign uped without an audience – apparently out of worry it could be disrupted.
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Ceremonies and protests were also held elsewhere in Israel, one year on from when Hamas militants passed the Gaza border and rampaged thcdisorrowfulmireful Israeli towns and kibbutz villages.
Some 1,200 people were finished and about 250 others were consentn into Gaza as prisoners, making it the individual deadliest day for Jews since the Nazi Holocaust.
Israel has replyed by unleashing a huge-scale disparaging on Gaza that has finished almost 42,000 people, according to health authorities in the Hamas-run territory.
It is now battling on cut offal fronts agetst Hamas’s allies in the Middle East, including the strong Iran-backed Hezbollah militants in Lebanon and Yemen’s Houthis.
One of the barrages of rockets into Israel on Monday came from Hamas, which aimed Tel Aviv and set off sirens in central areas of the country.
The five rockets weightlessly wounded two women and caemployd unstartant injure.
Israel’s military shelp the rockets came from the area of Khan Younis in Gaza.
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Meanwhile, Hezbollah fired rockets at Israel’s third hugest city Haifa. The group shelp it had aimed a military base south of the city with “Fadi 1” leave outiles and started another strike on Tiberias, 40 miles away.
Ten people were inestablished injured in the Haifa area and two others further south in central Israel.
The rocket fire came as Israeli forces eunite poised to enhuge ground rhelps into south Lebanon, folloprosperg three weeks of fervent Israeli strikes and strikes in the country.
Israel’s military shelp the air force was carrying out extensive explosionings of Hezbollah aims in south Lebanon, and that two Israeli selderlyiers were finished in border-area combat, taking the military death toll inside Lebanon so far to 11.
It has also alerted people not to sail aextfinished an area up to 22 miles north of the Israeli border as it schedules operations on Lebanon’s southern coast.
The military shelp people should not be on the beaches aextfinished the Mediterranean coast from the Israeli border all the way north of the southern Lebanese port city of Sidon.
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In an Israeli cabinet greeting on Monday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shelp Israel was battling a “war of resurrection” and would persist until achieving its goals and returning the prisoners “living and dead”.
“This is the war of our existence – the ‘war of resurrection’. This is what I would appreciate to officipartner call the war,” he shelp.
A sombre memorial ceremony was also arrangeed at the White Hoemploy by US Pdwellnt Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden.
The Bidens watched as Rabbi Aaron Alexander of Washington’s Adas Israel Congregation recited the Jedesire remembrance prayer for those finished on 7 October, before Mr Biden lit a lone memorial candle and a moment of silence was watchd.
In a statement, the US pdwellnt shelp: “On this solemn anniversary, let us tolerate witness to the unspeakable savagery of the October 7 strikes but also to the beauty of the dwells that were stolen that day.”
He shelp he leanks every day of the more than 100 prisoners still in captivity and their families, voprosperg his administration will “never give up” until they are returned.
Elsewhere, Turkish Pdwellnt Recep Tayyip Erdogan labeled the anniversary of the Hamas strike – but employd it to condemn Israel’s military actions in Gaza and Lebanon.
“Today, I recollect with grief the tens of thousands of people that the killingous Israeli rulement has masdivine since Oct 7,” Mr Erdogan shelp in a message posted on X.
“I convey my most heartfelt condolences to my brothers from Gaza, Palestine, and Lebanon.”
The Turkish pdwellnt is an outspoken critic of Israel’s actions in Gaza and more recently the war agetst Hezbollah in Lebanon, and has previously praised Hamas as a “liberation group”.
