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Israel-Gaza-Lebanon live updates: Israeli leaders, protesters mark Oct. 7 anniversary

Tens of thousands have been killed in one year of war across multiple fronts.

ByLeah Sarnoff and David Brennan
Last Updated: October 7, 2024, 5:32 AM EDT

Israel is marking the first anniversary of Hamas' Oct. 7 attack as its Lebanon operation continues and leaders consider their response to Iran's latest long-range missile attack.

Hundreds of Iranian missiles were fired into the country last week, according to Danny Danon, Israel's ambassador to the United Nations.

Iran said the unprecedented attack was retaliation for a wave of assassinations carried out by Israel over the last several weeks targeting Hezbollah, including leader Hassan Nasrallah.

Most of the missiles were intercepted, but "several hits were identified, and the damage is being assessed," an Israeli security official said.

Tune in to ABC News Live at 4 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 7, for "Oct 7th: Race to Survive" -- special coverage of the anniversary of the conflict. Veteran correspondent Matt Gutman highlights voices of Israelis and Palestinians impacted by the war and the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Gaza.

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Here's how the news is developing.
2 hours ago

Hezbollah vows to repel Israel despite 'heavy' losses

Hezbollah acknowledged "heavy" losses within its "leadership structure" and "military and material structure" during its ongoing conflict with Israel, in a statement issued Monday to mark the first anniversary of the Oct. 7 attack.

The group said it is "confident" in the "ability of our resistance to repel the aggression" in Lebanon in a message posted to one of its official Telegram channels.

Mourners carry the flag-draped coffin of a Hezbollah fighter killed by an Israeli strike in Beirut, Lebanon on Sept. 27, 2024.
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One year of war, the group claimed, has shown Israel to be "a fragile entity that is unable to survive and continue without American support."

The U.S. and its allies "bear full responsibility for the killing, criminality, injustice and shocking human tragedies" experienced by the Palestinian and Lebanese people, the statement added.

-ABC News' Patrick Reevell and Morgan Winsor

2 hours ago

Massive blast rocks Beirut in overnight Israeli airstrikes

The war in Lebanon continues to intensify as Israel marks the first anniversary of the Oct. 7 attack.

Beirut saw some of the heaviest Israeli airstrikes of the war so far overnight into Monday, with huge explosions again rising over the southern suburb and Hezbollah stronghold of Dahiya.

Flames and smoke rise from an Israeli airstrike in the Dahiya suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, on Oct. 6, 2024.
Bilal Hussein/AP

Strikes also continue in southern Lebanon, where the IDF said a third division -- the 91st Galilee Division -- joined the nascent incursion on Sunday.

Israel has intensified its bombing of Beirut since Thursday, launching dozens of attacks on Dahiya and its surroundings. New strikes land every few hours during the day, building to fierce nighttime barrages.

On Sunday night, a massive fiery blast lit up the sky over the capital after the IDF struck a weapons depot. Ammunition could be seen detonating following the attack.

Hezbollah, meanwhile, launched five rockets into the northern Israeli city of Haifa, injuring at least five people.

-ABC News' Patrick Reevell and Morgan Winsor

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.
Menahem Kahana/AFP via Getty Images

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

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.
Israel Defense Forces/via Reuters

"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."

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