Israel's ambassador to the UK, Tzipi Hotovely, says her country has been in a "different place" since Hamas's attacks on 7 October last year.

Speaking to our colleagues on Radio 4's Today programme, she describes the attacks as a "watershed moment" that has left many struggling with long-term trauma.

"Our hearts are still bleeding," she says.

"This thing happened because we were surrounded by this ring of fire created by Iran that wanted to create proxies that can attack Israel simultaneously, from the north, from Hezbollah, from the east, from the south, from Hamas."

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In a new statement to mark a year since the 7 October Hamas attacks, Hezbollah says it is "confident" in its ability to "repel the [Israeli] aggression", and has vowed to continue fighting.

The Lebanon-based armed group is allied with Hamas, and both are backed and funded by Iran.

Hezbollah describes the events of 7 October as "heroic", saying they will have "historic" effects in the region.

There "is no place" for Israel there, it says, and it "must be removed, no matter how long it takes".

Hezbollah also blames "the US and its allies" for the violence in Gaza and Lebanon that followed Hamas's 7 October attack, saying they "bear full responsibility".

It is one year since Hamas gunmen crossed into Israel and launched their wave of deadly attacks.

Hadas Kalderon, from the Nir Oz kibbutz in southern Israel, survived the attack, but her mother and niece were murdered.

Her two youngest children were kidnapped, along with their father, and taken to Gaza. Her children came home last November but their father, her ex-husband, is still held captive.

She's been speaking to our correspondent Yolande Knell about her continuing fight, one year on.

Yolande Knell
Middle East correspondent, in Jerusalem

Life in blockaded Gaza before the war was never easy, but looking back at photos of his four smiling, young children, Ahmed Younis remembers it as "beautiful".

"I was aiming for stability. I’d bought a house and was financially stable," he says. "I was planning a better future for my children. I sent them to the best kindergartens."

The family left their home in Nuseirat in central Gaza when Israeli troops advanced, but it had felt safe enough to go back. Then, one month ago, their house was hit by an Israeli air strike.

"Within a few seconds we were engulfed in flames and trapped in the rubble," Ahmed says from his hospital bed.

His six-year-old son, Hossam - a cheerful boy who loved to ride his bicycle and held his dad with chores - was killed. A relative tenderly carried away his corpse in a white sheet as Ahmed wept.

Ahmed’s mother and sister were also killed. He and his wife and their remaining three children were badly burned with one daughter losing her lower legs.

"I want to know why," Ahmed tells our BBC cameraman. "We are civilians, and we pose no threat."

Now, Ahmed’s greatest wish is to leave Gaza to seek better treatment for his family.

"If I could, I’d leave, and get them treated abroad before anything else," he tells us. "I hope from God that this [war] stops today, before tomorrow."

• Israel is not allowing international journalists from media organisations, including the BBC, independent access to Gaza. Palestinian journalists have reported from inside Gaza since the start of the war, but dozens have been killed, injured or gone missing

Hugo Bachega
Middle East correspondent, in Beirut

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Few people could have imagined that a year after the unprecedented Hamas attacks on Israel, not only Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza would still be raging - a war that has killed more than 40,000 Palestinians and reduced the territory to rubble - but that another war would engulf Lebanon.

Most of us who have covered and watched this region believed that another conflict between Hezbollah and Israel was just a matter of time. After their last one, in 2006, both sides were preparing for it.

Still, there is shock and even disbelief with the scale of what has happened here in the last few weeks.

More than 2,000 people have been killed in Lebanon so far, 1.2 million others have been forced to leave their homes while Israel’s air strikes have brought destruction to almost all parts of the country, including Beirut.

A city so used to war finds itself at the centre of yet another one. There are signs it is trying to adjust to this new reality, with shops, restaurants and bars reopening in some parts. But reminders of the war come often, impossible to be ignored: ambulances constantly rush through traffic, loud explosions are heard across the city from air strikes, dozens of displaced are sleeping in streets and public parks.

With the south being invaded again by the Israeli military, and with no sign that Israel is planning to reduce the intensity of its campaign against Hezbollah – quite the opposite – the fear is that this is the beginning of a wide, and long, conflict.

This morning, people have returned to the site of the Supernova festival in Re'im, southern Israel, where more than 350 people were killed by Hamas a year ago today.

The last song before the attackers struck was replayed - you can watch a clip above.

Meanwhile, relatives held pictures of those who had been at the festival.

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Lebanon's state-run National News Agency is reporting a number of air raids this morning in parts of the country.

It says there has been an attack on the outskirts of Qsarnaba, in the east of Lebanon, as well as a dawn raid between the southern towns of Zrariye and Braiqah.

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Idan Shtivi, one of the hostages taken by Hamas from the Supernova music festival on 7 October last year, was killed during the attacks, the Hostages and Missing Families Forum has just announced.

The group, which aims to return those abducted back to Israel, says the 28-year-old was "known for his selflessness and willingness to sacrifice for those around him".

It adds that when the attack began, Shtivi made a "selfless choice" to help two strangers escape from the site, but their car was attacked along the route. The bodies of two of his passengers were found.

Shtivi's body is "still being held captive by Hamas", the group says.

Hamas kidnapped 251 people during the 7 October attacks, according to Israel’s figures.

Before Shtivi's death was announced, 117 of those taken hostage had been freed, 37 confirmed dead, and 97 remained unaccounted for, with 64 of those assumed to be alive.

Nick Beake
Reporting from northern Israel

As 7 October arrived, huge flashes illuminated the hills of most northerly Israel. Explosions rang out from beyond the border with Lebanon and there was a constant roar of Israeli jets.

The raids continued throughout the night with an intensity we haven’t heard here since the opening of Israel’s ground invasion nearly a week ago.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was in the area yesterday, visiting troops involved in the expanded operation. He told them they had "completely changed reality" in the year since the Hamas attacks were launched, from Gaza, into the south of the country.

Netanyahu claims Hezbollah was planning an even bigger invasion into the north of the country which is why he has sent troops into Lebanon.

Research carried out by the Hebrew University of Jerusalem to mark one year on from 7 October suggests the vast majority of Israelis support the new campaign in Lebanon.

But the fighting has already proved to be fierce in places and the Israel Defense Forces have announced the death of a tenth soldier, 25-year-old Master Sergeant Etay Azulay from an elite combat unit.

Another key Israeli justification for the Lebanon invasion is to finally stop the nearly daily rocket fire from Hezbollah which the group launched in solidarity with Hamas a day after 7 October last year.

But that has not happened yet and, overnight, more rockets were fired into northern Israel, including into places further from the border, such as HaCarmel and HaMifratz, which are beyond evacuation areas and supposed to offer more safety.

Not all of the rockets were intercepted, including one which hit the city of Haifa.

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Lebanese MP Melhem Khalaf, part of a reformist bloc in parliament, has spoken to our colleagues on the World Service's Newsday programme about Israel's campaign in his country.

"Lebanon is under a heavy attack," he says. "There was no proportionality in the response of Israel to what is considered as attacks from Hezbollah.

"Bombing civilians, destroying entire villages, bring down to earth hundreds of houses and buildings, killing innocents in its attempt to assassinate whomever Israel considers a terrorist."

Overnight, Israel said it struck Hezbollah weapons and storage facilities in Beirut, setting off secondary explosions.

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Sam Harrison
BBC News

Image source, Najah Al-Husseini

The final evacuation flight carrying UK nationals from Beirut arrived in Birmingham last night.

The UK's Foreign Office, external says no more flights will run as demand has dropped, but the situation will be kept under review.

I spoke to Najah Al-Husseini, 66, after she arrived in Birmingham. She's fled her home in southern Beirut to be with her niece and great nephew in the UK.

"I've been in Lebanon for 40 years," she says. "This is a disaster."

She adds: "There are a lot of children dying... I was scared. Not for myself but for the people. What are people doing to other people?

"This morning, before I came to the airport, I saw old people having to sleep on the road. All the buildings are ruined. There are no more houses."

The Israel Defence Forces (IDF) has given a further update to its earlier alert that it was attacking Hamas targets throughout the Gaza Strip.

The IDF says the attacks were in response to an "immediate threat" and the intention of Hamas to fire at Israel.

The army attacked launchers and underground routes used by Hamas throughout Gaza, while the air force attacked targets in the centre of the Gaza Strip that "posed a threat" to IDF forces operating in the area.

Four projectiles were fired towards Israel from the southern Gaza Strip a short time ago, the Israeli military says.

Three of the projectiles were intercepted by the Israeli air force while one landed in an open area, the military adds.

It comes as Israel begins commemorations for the 7 October attacks when Hamas gunmen stormed across Gaza's border into Israel - about 1,200 people were killed and 251 others were taken hostage.

Israel began a campaign of air strikes on targets in Gaza in response, and later sent troops into the territory.

An Israeli military spokesman says the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) is now attacking targets belonging to Hamas throughout the Gaza Strip.

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

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Relatives and friends of the hundreds of people killed at the site of the Nova Music Festival in Re'im, Israel, on 7 October have gathered to commemorate the attacks one year on.

The last track that was played on 7 October last year before the Hamas attack took place was played again to the crowds gathered this morning.

Meanwhile in Jerusalem, families of hostages have gathered calling for the focus to remain on those still being held captive by Hamas in Gaza.

You can watch our stream of the events by clicking watch live at the top of this page.

The Israeli military says one soldier has been killed in combat on Lebanon's border with Israel, while two soldiers were severely injured.

The Israeli army began its ground invasion against the Iran-backed group Hezbollah in Lebanon last Monday, with frequent cross-border fighting since then.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) says it has carried out a strike on Hamas members who were operating inside the al-Aqsa hospital in Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip.

The IDF says these command and control centres were used by Hamas to plan attacks against IDF troops in Israel.

It says it took steps to protect civilians before the strikes, including the use of "precise munitions, aerial surveillance, and additional intelligence information".

The IDF says it's a "further example" of Hamas's "systematic abuse of civilian infrastructure in violation of international law".

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Ten people have been injured by missiles fired from Lebanon at the northern Israeli cities of Haifa and Tiberias overnight, according to MDA (Israel's ambulance service).

Several of the injured suffered wounds from shrapnel, glass and window debris, the MDA adds.

The missiles hit a restaurant, a house and a main road, the Israeli military says, adding that it's investigating how Hezbollah-fired missiles were able to break through Israel's air defence systems.

Hezbollah says it was targeting military facilities.

• The Israeli military says it has struck several Hezbollah intelligence targets and weapons storage facilities in Beirut. Powerful explosions were seen in Lebanon's capital, hours after the Israeli military issued evacuation orders in the region
• Sirens sounded across parts of Israel on Sunday night. Israeli officials are investigating how some rockets penetrated air defences and exploded in the city of Haifa, resulting in several injuries
• The last scheduled plane carrying UK nationals out of Lebanon has landed in Birmingham Airport - the Foreign Office says no more flights will run as demand has dropped
• Iranian authorities have announced the resumption of air traffic, after some flights were cancelled, amid Israel's warnings that it will retaliate for Tehran's missile attack
• Meanwhile, a policewoman was killed and 10 others injured in a shooting in the southern Israeli city of Beersheba, local authorities said
• The Israeli air force says it has killed a Hezbollah commander - Khader Ali Tawil - who was among those responsible for an anti-tank missile that hit the town of Kfar Yuval on Israel's northern border in January

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Candlelight vigils and memorials were held in London, Paris, Berlin and Geneva on Sunday evening to remember the 1,200 killed a year ago when Hamas gunmen stormed into Israel.

In Tel Aviv, friends and relatives of those killed at the Nova dance festival held their own vigil.

Later on Monday, there will be an official ceremony in Jerusalem. President Isaac Herzog will lead a memorial at daybreak in Sderot, the closest Israeli city to Gaza, to mark the moment it came under attack 12 months ago.

Since the 7 October attacks, more than 41,000 Palestinians have been killed in the Gaza Strip, most of them civilians, according to the Hamas-run health ministry.