Tel Aviv, Beirut, Gaza all targeted on sombre anniversary for Israelis
Pro- Israel i demonstrators take part in a rally on the anniversary of the Israel - Hamas war, in Washington, D.C..A woman with a photo of an Israel i hostage attends a ceremony marking the anniversary of the Hamas attack, in Amsterdam.A couple embrace after a commemoration marking one year since the Hamas attacks in Israel in Bucharest, Romania. Israel i colonel Edan Morag hugs his daughter Ya'ara as they look at a memorial for victims at the Israel i embassy in Beijing.
Hamas fired a total of five rockets on Monday toward Tel Aviv in what was a show of defiance by the group after a year of warfare that has destroyed much of the group’s fighting capability while reducing much of the Gaza Strip to rubble. Two of the missiles got through Israel’s air defences and a pair of women were lightly injured by shrapnel in Kfar Chabad.
After the Tel Aviv attack, the Gaza-based al-Mezan Centre for Human Rights reported that Israeli military issued an evacuation warning for Khan Yunis, the city in southern Gaza where the rockets were fired from. A separate warning called for Gazans to evacuate the north of Gaza, as Israel looked set to once more escalate operations in the narrow coastal territory.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called an emergency meeting of his security cabinet following the launches from Gaza and Lebanon. Later in the day, Yemen’s Houthi rebels also launched an attack on Israel, firing a long-range ballistic missile that was intercepted on its way to Tel Aviv. All three of Hamas, Hezbollah and the Houthis are backed by Iran, which itself launched a wave of missiles at Israel last week in what it said was retribution for Israeli attacks on Gaza and Lebanon.
On Monday, relatives of the missing gathered – along with some of the hostages released or rescued over the past year – at Tel Aviv’s central HaYarkon Park to mark the anniversary, and to call for Mr. Netanyahu’s government to bring them home via a ceasefire agreement.
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