Hezbollah has said it won't target Israeli forces whilst they are behind the UN's peacekeepers (UNIFIL) in southern Lebanon.

In a post on Telegram, the group accuses the Israeli military of using the peacekeepers as "human shields," and claims it "spotted an unusual movement of Israeli enemy forces behind a UNIFIL military outpost".

Hezbollah instructed its members to "wait and not deal with the movement in order to protect the lives of UNIFIL soldiers".

Read more: Israeli forces proximity to Irish troops in Lebanon 'concerning'

The Israel Defense Forces has warned "vacationers and beachgoers" along the Awali river line, and south of it, to avoid being in the sea or on the beach until further notice.

In a statement, the group say they will "soon operate in the maritime area" and warn "being on the beach and boat movements in the area pose a danger to your life".

The Awali river flows through southern Lebanon, and meets the coast just over halfway between Beirut and border.

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At the event in Yarkon Park, Rafi Ben Shitrit - whose son Shimon Alroy Ben Shitrit was killed on 7 October while attempting to hold off Hamas in southern Israel - has called on Israel's government to hold an inquiry to find out who is "accountable".

Speaking of his son, and other Israeli soldiers killed, he says they were "slain as heroes", adding it is "their will and testament" to begin "some national soul searching".

"We call on the government to have an inquiry and find out who was accountable," he says, to massive applause from the audience.

Between musical acts at the Tel Aviv memorial concert we are hearing from the families of 7 October victims.

One man has recounted the loss of his relative Carmel Gat, 40, who was taken as a hostage by Hamas while visiting her family in kibbutz Be'eri - she was later killed.

"It should not have happened," the relative says.

Gat was named by the IDF as one of the six hostages whose bodies were recovered in an underground tunnel last month.

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A moment of silence has just been held at a memorial event at Tel Aviv’s Yarkon Park, which has been organised by the families of the victims of the 7 October attack.

The Times of Israel reports that just 2,000 people will be able to attend the memorial following restrictions imposed on large gatherings by the IDF following ongoing threat of rocket attacks on Tel Aviv.

This ceremony is the first of two that is scheduled for this evening.

A second event, organised by the Israeli government, will begin at 21:15 local time (19:15 BST).

We've just heard reports from the Israeli military that central Israel has come under threat from an attack by forces in Yemen.

BBC teams in Tel Aviv reported hearing sirens in Yarkon Park.

In a statement, the Israel Defense Forces says that the Israeli Air Force (IAF) intercepted a “surface-to-surface missile” that had been fired from Yemen - a country over 2,000km (1,200 miles) south of Tel Aviv - which triggered these alarms.

No injuries have been reported. We'll bring you more details as we get them.

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UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer says Hamas's 7 October attacks on Israel, one year ago today, marked "the bloodiest day for the Jewish people since the Holocaust".

Speaking in parliament earlier, he says the "pain and horror of that day is as acute today as it was a year ago".

He says the conflict is a "living nightmare" and stresses his government "stands with all innocent victims in Israel, Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon and beyond".

"All sides must now step back from the brink and find the courage of restraint," he adds.

How might Israel respond to Iran’s massive ballistic attack?published at 16:33 British Summer Time 7 October

16:33 BST 7 October

Frank Gardner
Security correspondent

Numerous reports have circulated as to what Israel’s response will be for Iran’s ballistic missile attack on 1 October.

The fact that it has yet to happen does not mean that it won’t. In April, Iran waited 12 days after Israel’s air strike on its consulate in Damascus before launching 300 drones and missiles at Israel.

For Israel, and its US ally, there are pros and cons for every target set in Iran.

Missile bases: These are the most obvious military target as Israel will want to degrade as much as possible Iran’s ability to hit back in a counter strike. Hitting these would largely avoid civilian casualties or any economic pain to the population.

Oil and economic infrastructure: This would hit Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) in the pocket, damaging its ability to fund its proxies and its weapons procurement. But there would likely be civilian casualties and the oil price could temporarily spike, not something Washington wants.

Leadership: This would be a strategic escalation: going after key IRGC and regime figures, something that could trigger major retaliation by Tehran.

Nuclear sites: This would be the riskiest move of all, and Washington has made it clear it would not support it. It would also quite possibly be counter-productive, failing to destroy these well-protected underground sites but prompting Iran to race towards developing nuclear weapons as a future deterrent.

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We've just reported that the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) says 135 missiles have been fired into Israel by Hezbollah today.

The IDF has also announced in the last hour that it's carrying out a "targeted strike" in Dahieh, a southern suburb of Beirut with a strong Hezbollah presence.

A Lebanese security official tells the AFP news agency that Israel is striking near Beirut-Rafic Hariri International Airport.

We'll bring you more details as we get them.

More now from the Israeli military, which says Hezbollah has fired as many as 135 rockets across the border from Lebanon since this morning.

Since 8 October 2023, there has been near-daily cross-border fire between Israel and Hezbollah, the day after the unprecedented attack on Israel by Hamas gunmen, which triggered the war in Gaza.

Hezbollah says it began the campaign in solidarity with the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and maintains that it won't stop until there is a ceasefire in Gaza.

From Melbourne to Nice, people from around the world have been gathering to commemorate the victims of Hamas's 7 October attack on Israel.

There are also events planned across Israel tonight, taking place in cities across the country. We'll bring you more coverage of those later when they get under way.

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Thomas Copeland
Live reporter

As we've reported here, Israel has continued to strike the Lebanese capital of Beirut overnight and through today.

I've been speaking to residents there, including Rania Barrage, who lives with her daughter.

"I stay up all night to sounds of air strikes," Barrage, 61, tells me from her home overlooking Beirut's southern suburbs.

Israeli forces do send evacuation orders, she says, but the warnings often come in the middle of the night.

"The strikes are barbaric," Barrage says. "It is a psychological warfare and most of us are now sleep deprived."

Barrage works in HR for a global medical equipment company and she is still trying to go to work every day.

"Every single possible route leading to my work has already been shelled and I have no way of knowing if it might happen one day while I am on the road," she says.

The worst part of the conflict, Barrage tells me, is the disappointment she feels. In high school, she studied at an American school in Lebanon and then went on to study at the American University of Beirut.

"I was shaped to believe in Western values. During this war I discovered that no, the West does not see us as equal and none of their values apply to us," Barrage tells me.

"We are sadly, just collateral damage."

Alice Cuddy
In Jerusalem

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Nashwa Rezeq left her home in the upmarket Gazan neighbourhood of Al-Zahra on the evening of 7 October, believing that it would be safer to head south.

She thought she would be gone for only a matter of days, but a year on she is still displaced in the southern city of Khan Younis.

"I refused to let my children take all their clothes and stuff with them. We took only the most important documents and money and jewellery. We took the cat and her kittens. We left the key with the neighbours," she says, by voice note.

Her apartment block was destroyed in a strike later that month. "Two months ago I got the key back, but… there is no house to go back to," she says.

"Today we woke up, me, my husband and my children saying ‘wow, we’ve been living like this now for a year’."

• Read more about the bombing of Al-Zahra

In Gaza, ten people have been killed and dozens more injured in an Israeli air strike on the Jabalia refugee camp, the Hamas-affiliated Safa news agency reports.

It comes hours after the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) warned residents in parts of northern Gaza - including Jabalia - to evacuate the region.

IDF spokesperson Avichay Adraee said at that time that the Israeli military was operating "with great force" in areas including Beit Hanoun, Jabalia and Beit Lahia.

Yolande Knell
Middle East correspondent, in Jerusalem

Looking at the busy shopping malls and coffee shops of Tel Aviv or Jerusalem and, superficially, life for many Israelis appears to have returned to normal. However, the shock of the 7 October attacks has not faded away, people still feel insecure.

Dozens of hostages remain in captivity in Gaza, tens of thousands of Israelis have not returned to their homes at both ends of the country, and as fighting with Hezbollah intensifies, war looks set to continue for much longer than originally expected.

Thousands of reserve soldiers are serving second or third tours of duty. The economy is showing the strain.

Many feel in low spirits or angry. Internal divisions are also opening up again after Israelis initially rallied around the flag, and the army, following Hamas’s deadly assault.

Those now joining weekly demonstrations calling for a ceasefire and hostage release deal are mostly secular Jewish Israelis opposed to the prime minister and his government.

Israel’s splits are on show as it prepares to mark a year since the 7 October events. The state ceremony is being pre-recorded, without a live audience, in part because of worries that there could be disruptions.

Meanwhile, huge crowds are expected at an alternative ceremony.

Lucy Williamson
Reporting from Ma'alot, northern Israel

Dr Osama Nasser locked his car and walked into the Yad be Yad Hospital in Ma’alot this morning, exactly five minutes before the rocket hit. His car is now a shattered wreck – the frame crumpled and shot through by shrapnel, the windscreen smashed, the roof caved in.

In the back, his two-year-old daughter’s car-seat is surrounded by debris and twisted metal.

A metre away, the impact site where the rocket hit just before 09:00 this morning has gouged a hole in the hospital carpark, and destroyed several other vehicles. “I cried when I saw it,” Osama told me.

“[But] I think I’m a lucky man – it was the car not me.” As we were speaking, sirens sounded again. We ran inside the building with hospital staff – faces drawn, senses alert. After the first few rockets were fired overhead, we began counting – more than 35 were fired in an intense wave above us. Many were intercepted, but some landed in communities nearby.

As we emerged, we saw smoke rising from a nearby impact site. We followed emergency teams along narrow hilly streets to a second site in a residential neighbourhood where part of a rocket – still unexploded – had landed in a house. Specialist bomb disposal teams were called in, as frightened residents made their way out. One elderly woman was wheeled out with cuts to her face.

There were no reports of anyone seriously injured in this barrage, but it’s the second time this morning that Ma’alot has been hit.

Both the mayor and the local civil defence commander told me there had been a sharp escalation in rocket attacks here over the past week, and that they feared difficult days ahead.

As we just heard from our colleague Orla Guerin, Israel is stepping up its bombardment of southern Lebanon this afternoon.

Images sent to us over the past hour show plumes of smoke rising over several locations, including Lebanon's fourth largest city, Tyre, located 19km (12 miles) north of the Israeli border:

Image source, Reuters

Image source, Reuters

We've also receieved similar images from near the villages of Khiam and Kfar Kila, around 5km (3 miles) from the border:

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Orla Guerin
Senior international correspondent, reporting from Tyre

Image source, BBC/Lee Durant

Israel is stepping up its bombardment of southern Lebanon, on the one-year anniversary of the Hamas attack on Israel, which triggered the Gaza war.

From our vantage point in the southern city of Tyre, we saw and heard air strike after air strike over the course of an hour this afternoon, sending plumes of smoke rising across the horizon.

Some of the locations hit were in the hills, close to the border with Israel, about 12 miles (19km) away.

At least one strike hit a built-up area of Tyre which was 1-2km (0.6 - 1.2 miles) away from our position.

The war is getting closer to Tyre by the day, and across Lebanon Israeli strikes are bringing more death and destruction.

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As commemorations continue in Israel and around the world, Benjamin Netanyahu is visiting a memorial in Jerusalem for victims of the Hamas attacks on 7 October.

The Israeli prime minister reiterates his commitment to bring the hostages home and pays tribute to soldiers killed in the ongoing war with Hamas.

"On this day, on this place, and in many other places in our land, we remember our fallen, our hostages — whom we are obliged to bring home — and our heroes who fell for the defence of the homeland and the country," he says.

After lighting candles at the memorial, he adds: "We went through a terrible massacre a year ago, and we stood up as a people, like lions."

Lyse Doucet
Chief international correspondent, reporting from Nir Oz

Grief is still raw. Charred gutted houses remain. One year on, Kibbutz like Nir Oz are still trapped in the pain of 7 October.

Some residents of what was once a pretty place of flowering frangipani, a close knit community of 400 people, have found strength to return to the scenes of carnage to hold vigils for their loved ones.

“I cannot imagine what these kids went through as their parents were bleeding to death and they were suffocating,” reflects Ranae Butler, as we stand in front of the blackened shell of her brother Yonatan’s home. He, his wife Tamara, three young children, and their grandmother Carol were all murdered that day.

Carol’s partner Julien Cohen managed to hold on to his shelter’s door to keep Hamas fighters out. “I asked my doctor how an old man like me could do that and he told me we find force in these moments. “

“Our hope and prayer had been that we could find peace with our neighbours in Gaza,” he remarks sadly. “But you cannot sit down to talk with people whose reason for being is to take you away and kill you.”

A quarter of the Nir Oz community, 117 people, many of them peace activists, were killed or kidnapped. Until everyone is accounted for, all 251 hostages seized that day, 7 October remains an open wound - here and across Israel.