ONE YEAR ON SINCE HAMAS ATTACKED ISRAEL – Hezbollah strikes Israel on Oct 7 Anniversary
Hezbollah rockets hit Israel’s third-largest city of Haifa, earlier today, on the one year anniversary of the Hamas attack Israeli media reported 10 injured in the country’s north on the first anniversary of the Gaza war, which has spread in the Middle East.
Hezbollah, an ally of Hamas, the Palestinian militants group fighting Israel in Gaza, said it targeted a military base south of Haifa with a salvo of “Fadi 1” missiles.
Israelis marked the first anniversary of the devastating Hamas attack that triggered a war which has sparked protest worldwide and risks igniting a far wider conflict in the Middle East.
Ceremonies and protests in Jerusalem and Israel’s south were scheduled to begin around 06:29 a.m., the hour when Hamas-led militants launched rockets into Israel at the start of the Oct. 7 attack last year.
They killed some 1,200 people and took about 250 hostages to Gaza, according to Israeli figures.
Security forces were on high alert across the country on Monday, the military and police said, anticipating possible Palestinian attacks planned for the anniversary of Oct. 7, 2023
The Hamas attack on Israeli communities around Gaza and Israel’s response have destabilised the Middle East while the scale of the killing and destruction have horrified people worldwide.
The attack on Israel shattered many citizens’ sense of security. Most of the dead were civilians, including women, children and elderly people, killed in their homes, on the roads and at the site of an open air music festival – as well as soldiers on army bases near the Gaza border.
In Gaza, 101 hostages remain as Israeli forces press on with their mission to end Hamas’ rule of the enclave and end its military capabilities.
