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

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

Families of the hundreds killed and dozens of people taken hostage at the Nova festival last year 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 Israeli President Isaac Herzog led a minute's silence at 06:29, the moment that the attack began.

Outside of Israel, President Biden joined other world leaders in condemning what he called the "unspeakable brutality" of the Hamas attacks a year ago.

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

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

Read more on how the day unfolded, one year on.

This ends our live coverage of events for today. Thank you for joining us.

US President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden held their own memorial event at the White House to mark the first year since the 7 October attack.

The Bidens were joined by a rabbi, and President Biden lit a Yahrzeit memorial candle during the event in honour of the victims.

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The vice-president planted a tree to serve as a memorial.

Kamala Harris was joined by her husband as the pair shovelled soil onto the tree in the garden of their official residence.

They then observed a moment of silence.

Earlier we reported that the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said it had intercepted a missile fired at central Israel from Yemen.

Shortly afterwards, the Iranian-backedHouthi group in Yemen said it had fired two missiles at military targets in central Israel's Jaffa area.

The IDF said a “surface-to-surface missile” fired from Yemen was intercepted by the Israeli Air Force.

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Over 400,000 people in Lebanon have fled across the border to Syria to escape Israeli strikes, according to the Lebanese government.

More than three-quarters of those fleeing are from Syria, most of which sought sanctuary in Lebanon after fleeing the country's civil war - which began in 2011.

The rest are thought to be from Lebanon.

More than one million people across Lebanon have been displaced by the escalating fighting between Hezbollah and Israel, the government says.

Rami Ruhayem
BBC Arabic

At 21:30 local time on Sunday, two explosions shook the village of Qmatieh in Mount Lebanon. Two missiles launched from an Israeli drone hit the top floor of a three-storey building and also damaged a building right next to it.

Two hours later, the horrific news came out: six people had been killed, among them three children, and 11 others wounded, according to the first report by the Lebanese ministry of health.

This morning, Hezbollah’s media team organised a tour for journalists to see the area hit. Residents told us the death toll had risen to seven, all of them civilians. Israel’s military hasn’t commented on the attack.

Until yesterday, this village was considered relatively safe. The area houses thousands of people who have been displaced by Israel’s bombing campaign on Lebanon. All the survivors of this strike have now had to flee once more as Israel expands the scope and intensity of its attacks.

Hezbollah has issued a statement saying it targeted a military base on the outskirts of Tel Aviv.

Earlier we reported air raid sirens were sounded across the city and footage shared on social media showed rockets being intercepted in the air.

The Israeli ambulance service said it has not received any reports of injuries from the attack.

Paul Adams
Diplomatic correspondent, in London

Throughout the war in Gaza, Israel has prevented journalists from seeing for themselves what’s going on there.

Apart from a handful of brief, strictly controlled glimpses, organised by the Israeli military, there has been absolutely no access.

Unlike other warzones, Gaza isn’t a place you can simply sneak into.

Early in the war, the BBC relied on its local staff, including correspondent Rushdi Abualouf, to keep us informed. When it became too dangerous and they were forced to leave, we turned to a handful of trusted freelancers to film and report for us.

They operate in one of the most dangerous environments imaginable. More than 130 of their Palestinian colleagues have been killed.

For those of us who have covered conflicts in the past and who know Gaza, being kept at arm’s length makes it extremely difficult to convey the reality of this war.

For a reporter, there is simply no substitute for being on the ground, seeing it for yourself.

If you’re not there, everything becomes second or third hand, making it that much harder to get at the truth.

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More on the explosions seen over Tel Aviv.

A short while ago, sirens were reported in "a number of areas" in central Israel.

The Israeli military has said that "several projectile launches were identified crossing from Lebanon" into their territory.

"Some were intercepted by the IAF [Israel Air Force] and the rest fell in open areas," it says.

BBC journalists in Tel Aviv report hearing big explosions in the city just now.

Sirens ring out in the area of Yarkon Park where a memorial ceremony was held to commemorate the 7 October attacks just hours ago.

Our team reports seeing multiple explosions in the sky, as projectiles were intercepted.

We'll bring you more on this as soon as we have it.

As Israeli families gather at one memorial - officials give pre-recorded speeches at anotherpublished at 21:18 British Summer Time 7 October

21:18 BST 7 October

Lyse Doucet
Chief international correspondent

The setting was stunning, the occasion profoundly sad, and stirring. Israeli families gathered in Tel Aviv’s biggest park for an event billed as the Bereaved Families Memorial Ceremony.

“Families came to mourn together and to find hope,” explained one of the volunteer organisers Raoul Wootliff. “There was a feeling that the official pre-recorded event, with no audience, had no soul.”

Some of Israel’s most popular singers took to the stage with emotional performances, one year on since the horrific attacks of 7 October.

The government wasn’t invited. Anger burns among many hostage families that their security forces failed to stop Hamas’s horrific attacks. And many accuse Prime Minister Netanyahu of not doing enough to bring the hostages home.

One grieving father, Raffi Ben Shitrit, whose son Elroi was killed, called for a state inquiry into government failures.

Numbers were limited for security reasons but many across Israel watched the event broadcast live on all Israeli TV channels.

The stage was adorned with symbols of their darkest day: burnt and broken cars from the Nova music festival; a child’s bicycle and swing set from the Be’eri kibbutz – mementos of how everyday lives were shattered by this unprecedented onslaught.

Our colleagues at BBC Panorama have spoken to Thomas Hand, the father of an Irish-Israeli girl who was held hostage by Hamas for 50 days in the aftermath of the 7 October attacks.

Emily Hand was staying with a friend at kibbutz Be’eri three miles from Gaza, when she - along with more than 250 other hostages - was taken from Israel into the Gaza Strip by Hamas. She spent her ninth birthday there as a hostage.

By nightfall on 7 October, more than 100 people in Be’er ihad been killed.

Her father, Thomas Hand, made international headlines with his emotional pleas for Emily's rescue.

Immediately after 7 October, he thought his daughter had been killed in the attack. But a month later, he was told she was alive and being held in Gaza.

Emily was freed on 25 November, along with 54 other hostages in return for 117 Palestinian prisoners released by Israel.

• You can watch October 7th: One Year On at 21:00 BST tonight on BBC One (UK only).

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has just confirmed the strike we reported on a few minutes ago.

It says fighter jets launched missiles at Hezbollah's "intelligence headquarters" - a target the IDF has said it has hit before after launches in recent days.

Two evacuation orders were issued for southern Beirut earlier this evening.

Live footage from Beirut has just shown another strike hit the south of the city.

It comes less than an hour after the Israeli military issued evacuation orders for two separate locations.

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An address from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has just been aired on domestic television as part of a 7 October memorial event.

He speaks of his determination to "bring our hostages home, whether they are alive or not".

"We will not give up any single one of them," he goes on.

Netanyahu also says there is a need to continue fighting to "thwart any future threat against the state of Israel".

He says "a mountain of bereavement" has cast a shadow over Israel, before ending by saying: "Believe me, victory is the light."

The Israeli military has issued a new evacuation warning for parts of southern Beirut.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) tells residents living near "Hezbollah facilities and interests" in the capital's southern suburbs, including in the Burj al-Barajneh neighbourhood, to evacuate.

In a post on X, external, the IDF's Arabic spokesman Avichay Adraee says residents must move a distance of "no less than 500 meters" for the safety "of your family members".

The BBC's Rushdi Abualouf, who has reported from Gaza for decades, spent weeks documenting the conflict from inside the territory, only leaving with his family on 20 November for the sake of their safety.

He sheds light on the challenges of reporting the war from inside and outside of Gaza.

Israel's President Isaac Herzog, speaking at a separate ceremony in Tel Aviv marking one year on since the 7 October attacks, says the "time has come for all Israelis to return safely to their home" after a "year of pain".

"We will not be complete and whole until they come home to us. That is a supreme decree to bring them home," he adds, in a pre-recorded message.

Herzog also praises the "comradery and fraternity" in Israel over the past year, and says children will return to play in the streets of Galilee, northern Israel.

The Israeli military has just given an update on one of its operations, saying 120 targets in southern Lebanon have been hit in one hour.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) says that 100 fighter jets carried out an "extensive aerial operation", targeting Hezbollah units in south Lebanon.

It says targets include regional units of Hezbollah's elite Radwan force, missiles and rockets force and the intelligence directorate.

The IDF says it is carrying out "precise operations" to remove Hezbollah's infrastructure, which it says has been "deliberately embedded" in civilian areas.

Image source, Israel Defense Forces

Isaac Herzog, Israel's president, says "far too many" were lost in the 7 October attacks on Israel.

Speaking at a remembrance event at the site of the Nova music festival, where Hamas attacked partygoers, he says to the families of victims: "What a horrific price you have paid, there are no ways that can console you."

He says the area will be rebuilt, and one day children will be playing "happily" again.

"And all those who were killed on the 7 October, their memories will be engraved on the hearts of this nation," he adds.

Paul Adams
Diplomatic correspondent

Image source, Asmaa Tayeh

Asmaa Tayeh and her family have had to leave their home in Jabaliya, for the fourth time.

On Saturday, Israel sent tanks and infantry back into Jabaliya, north east of Gaza City, saying intelligence had indicated “the presence of saboteurs and terrorist structures in the area.”

Once again urging civilians to move south, the IDF said the operation, the army’s third in the Jabaliya area since the start of the war, would involve “systematic strikes and the radical destruction of terrorist structures”.

Four months after their last move, Asmaa’s family has returned to her grandparents’ house in nearby al-Nasr.

Like many civilians in the northern part of the Gaza Strip, they’re reluctant to move south, fearing that if they do they won’t ever make it home.

Despite Israeli assurances, Palestinians fear the army is planning to implement a plan, proposed by the former head of Israel’s national security council, to completely empty the northern Gaza Strip of civilians.

“The situation is getting so dangerous that we don’t have so much hope that we’ll go back,” Asmaa messaged me earlier.

As usual, when Israeli military operations get under way, the internet and phone signals are disrupted.

“I might get lost for some days.”

• Read Asmaa's full story, an intense look into the war in Gaza