Israel-Gaza-Lebanon updates: Netanyahu calls UN troops Hezbollah 'human shields'

U.N. peacekeepers claim IDF tanks breached their base in southern Lebanon.

Last Updated: October 13, 2024, 5:51 PM EDT

The Israel Defense Forces continued intense air and ground campaigns against Hezbollah in Lebanon and against Hamas in the Gaza Strip.

The uptick in offensive operations came days after Israel marked the anniversary of Hamas' Oct. 7 assault and as Israeli leaders planned their response to last week's Iranian ballistic missile attack.

Oct 07, 2024, 3:09 AM EDT

Hostage families protest outside Netanyahu’s residence

The Hostages and Missing Families Forum rallied outside Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Jerusalem residence on Monday morning to mark one year since hundreds were taken as hostages during Hamas' Oct. 7 attack in southern Israel.

Relatives and supporters of hostages taken during Hamas' Oct. 7 attack protest in front of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's residence in Jerusalem on Oct. 7, 2024.
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Attendees sounded a two-minute siren outside Netanyahu's home, "urging him to end the abandonment of their loved ones and to bring back all the hostages in a deal -- the living for rehabilitation and the deceased for proper burial," the group wrote in a statement.

The Hostages and Missing Families Forum has been a part of massive public pressure on Netanyahu to reach a cease-fire and hostage-release deal with Hamas in Gaza.

There are around 101 hostages still being held by militants inside the strip, around two thirds of whom are thought to be alive.

-ABC News' Jordana Miller

Oct 07, 2024, 2:31 AM EDT

Additional Israeli division joins Lebanon attack, IDF says

Another division joined Israel's cross-border assaults into Lebanon on Sunday, Israel Defense Forces spokesperson Avichay Adraee said.

The 91st Galilee Division "began a limited and targeted ground operation in southern Lebanon," Adraee said in a post on X.

PHOTO: Israeli army operates at a location given as Southern Lebanon
Israeli soldiers operate at a location given as southern Lebanon in this image released by the Israel Defense Forces on Oct. 6, 2024.
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"Since the beginning of the war, the Galilee Division has been fighting defensively in tandem with numerous offensive operations targeting the enemy and its infrastructure in southern Lebanon from the air and on the ground," he said.

"Over the past few weeks, the division's forces have carried out hundreds of attacks and eliminated dozens of terrorists."

Oct 07, 2024, 2:19 AM EDT

Israeli president begins Oct. 7 memorial visits

Israeli President Isaac Herzog began a series of planned visits to border communities impacted in Hamas' Oct. 7 attacks with a stop at the site of the Nova Festival in Re'im on Monday.

Israeli President Isaac Herzog and his wife attend a memorial ceremony at the site of the Nova Festival in Re'im, Israel, on Oct. 7, 2024 to mark the first anniversary of Hamas' 2023 attack.
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Hamas fighters killed 364 people at the site close to the Gaza frontier on Oct. 7. More than 40 people were taken back into Gaza as hostages.

Herzog -- who was joined by bereaved families -- observed a moment of silence at the site in memory of the victims, after which he laid a wreath and lit memorial candles.

-ABC News' Jordana Miller

Oct 06, 2024, 7:28 PM EDT

Palestinian-American doctor says suffering in Gaza is 'immeasurable'

Palestinian-American physician and writer Dr. Fady Joudah spoke with Phil Lipof on ABC News Live about his experiences and perspective ahead of the first anniversary of Oct. 7.

Joudah described the losses in Gaza since then as "immeasurable," saying to ABC News that no political or historical explanation can justify it.

A woman walks near a damaged building following an Israeli military raid in the Jenin refugee camp, in the occupied West Bank, Sept. 6, 2024.
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As the Israel-Hamas war reaches the one-year mark, nearly 42,000 Palestinians have been killed in the territory, and just over half the dead have been women and children, according to local health officials.

"Even if the war stops tomorrow or the next minute, the suffering of the Palestinian people is immeasurable at this point," he said.

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