Barrages of rockets have been fired into Israel all through the day as Israelis mark the anniversary of the 7 October assault.
Tons of of family of hostages and folks killed within the assault gathered for a memorial service in a central Tel Aviv park, though the occasion needed to be scaled again due to threats of missile hearth.
Shortly earlier than it started, sirens warned of an incoming missile from Yemen and people gathered have been pressured to lie face down on the bottom till it was intercepted.
A second main memorial was held by the federal government in Israel at this time, though the ceremony was pre-recorded with out an viewers – apparently out of concern it could possibly be disrupted.
Ceremonies and protests have been additionally held elsewhere in Israel, one yr on from when Hamas militants crossed the Gaza border and rampaged by way of Israeli cities and kibbutz villages.
Some 1,200 individuals have been killed and about 250 others have been taken into Gaza as hostages, making it the one deadliest day for Jews for the reason that Nazi Holocaust.
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Bereaved households organised an anniversary memorial in Tel Aviv. Pic: Reuters
Israel has responded by unleashing a large-scale offensive on Gaza that has killed virtually 42,000 individuals, in line with well being authorities within the Hamas-run territory.
It’s now combating on a number of fronts towards Hamas’s allies within the Center East, together with the highly effective Iran-backed Hezbollah militants in Lebanon and Yemen’s Houthis.
One of many barrages of rockets into Israel on Monday got here from Hamas, which focused Tel Aviv and set off sirens in central areas of the nation.
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Rocket lands in Tel Aviv
The 5 rockets calmly wounded two ladies and induced minor injury.
Israel’s navy mentioned the rockets got here from the world of Khan Younis in Gaza.
In the meantime, Hezbollah fired rockets at Israel’s third largest metropolis Haifa. The group mentioned it had focused a navy base south of the town with “Fadi 1” missiles and launched one other strike on Tiberias, 40 miles away.
Ten individuals have been reported injured within the Haifa space and two others additional south in central Israel.
The rocket hearth got here as Israeli forces seem poised to broaden floor raids into south Lebanon, following three weeks of intense Israeli strikes and assaults within the nation.
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Second rocket lands in Haifa
Israel’s navy mentioned the air pressure was finishing up in depth bombings of Hezbollah targets in south Lebanon, and that two Israeli troopers have been killed in border-area fight, taking the navy dying toll inside Lebanon to this point to 11.
It has additionally warned individuals to not sail alongside an space as much as 22 miles north of the Israeli border because it plans operations on Lebanon’s southern coast.
The navy mentioned individuals shouldn’t be on the seashores alongside the Mediterranean coast from the Israeli border all the way in which north of the southern Lebanese port metropolis of Sidon.
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In an Israeli cupboard assembly on Monday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu mentioned Israel was combating a “war of resurrection” and would proceed till attaining its objectives and returning the hostages “living and dead”.
“This is the war of our existence – the ‘war of resurrection’. This is what I would like to officially call the war,” he mentioned.
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Silence, screams and the sounds of warfare
A sombre memorial ceremony was additionally hosted on the White Home by US President Joe Biden and first girl Jill Biden.
The Bidens watched as Rabbi Aaron Alexander of Washington’s Adas Israel Congregation recited the Jewish remembrance prayer for these killed on 7 October, earlier than Mr Biden lit a lone memorial candle and a second of silence was noticed.
In a press release, the US president mentioned: “On this solemn anniversary, let us bear witness to the unspeakable brutality of the October 7 attacks but also to the beauty of the lives that were stolen that day.”
He mentioned he thinks day-after-day of the greater than 100 hostages nonetheless in captivity and their households, vowing his administration will “never give up” till they’re returned.
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Joe Biden with first girl Jill Biden and Rabbi Aaron Alexander
Elsewhere, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan marked the anniversary of the Hamas assault – however used it to sentence Israel’s navy actions in Gaza and Lebanon.
“Today, I remember with sorrow the tens of thousands of people that the murderous Israeli government has massacred since Oct 7,” Mr Erdogan mentioned in a message posted on X.
“I convey my most heartfelt condolences to my brothers from Gaza, Palestine, and Lebanon.”
The Turkish president is an outspoken critic of Israel’s actions in Gaza and extra just lately the warfare towards Hezbollah in Lebanon, and has beforehand praised Hamas as a “liberation group”.
