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08-10-2024
GAZA STRIP/ JERUSALEM: A year on from Hamas’s 7 October attacks, Israel, Hamas, and Hezbollah all launch assaults.
Israel carried out air strikes on Lebanon, saying it hit Hezbollah targets, and Gaza, where it targeted Hamas.
From Gaza, Hamas fired rockets at Israel, with two people wounded near Tel Aviv and in northern Israel, a local mayor tells media that 60 apartments were damaged by Hezbollah rockets fired from Lebanon.
People across Israel and the world are remembering last year’s 7 October attacks, in which Hamas killed about 1,200 people and took 251 hostage – with another hostage death announced on Monday.
Since 7 October, nearly 42,000 people have been killed during Israel’s campaign in Gaza, according to the Hamas-run health ministry.
A year on from the 7 October attacks, here’s the latest developments from Israel, Lebanon and Gaza:
Vigils, memorials and ceremonies are being held across Israel to remember the 1,200 people killed and the 251 kidnapped by Hamas gunmen one year ago today.
A new Israeli military division has been sent to southern Lebanon, one week after the Israeli military began its ground invasion against the Iran-backed Hezbollah.
Ten people have been injured by missiles fired into northern Israel by Hezbollah, who today praised the events of 7 October as “heroic” and said they are “confident” they can resist Israeli forces.
In Gaza and Lebanon, the Israeli army says it is attacking targets where Hamas and Hezbollah operate.
Four projectiles were fired towards Israel from southern Gaza, the IDF says, three of which were intercepted. Two people have been wounded in a Hamas strike on Tel Aviv as five projectiles were fired from the Khan Younis area in Gaza.
Israel’s veteran prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, who branded himself as “Security”, presided over the country’s worst national security failure but one year on, he has a strong grip on power bolstered by military and political successes over the past three months.
While Israel has not taken responsibility for all actions, top leaders of Hamas have been assassinated as has the head of Hezbollah, after highly damaging, clandestine attacks on his group. A massive Iranian missile attack was defeated last week.
On the political side, Netanyahu has kept together a fractious coalition. Early in the war, he benefitted from temporarily bringing his rival, Benny Gantz, into an emergency government. This divided the opposition.
Now the prime minister has brought another ex-rival, Gideon Saar, into his coalition, giving it four extra parliamentary seats and reducing the power of far-right ministers.
Netanyahu could now manage to stay in office until the next election due in a year’s time. Polls indicate that he has risen in popularity but that most Israelis would still like him to resign. If voting took place today, they suggest his party would have most seats, although his coalition would lose.
We’ve just received an update from Hezbollah who says they have targeted Israeli soldiers with rocket missiles.
The Iran-backed militia group says in a statement that it launched rockets at Israeli army troops gathered at the Maroun al-Ras park in southern Lebanon this morning.
In a separate statement, the group goes on to say Hezbollah forces targeted another group of soldiers in Jal Al-Alam, an area further west and closer to the border with Israel.
The group has also claimed responsibility for rockets launched earlier at Kfar Vradim, a town in the north of Israel. (Int’l News Desk)
