Israel has held ceremonies to remember the victims of the mass killings and abductions carried out by Hamas on October 7 2023, against a backdrop of continuing fighting in the Gaza Strip and Lebanon.

A year after the attack – that saw some 1,200 people killed and 251 taken hostage – Israeli Prime Minister,Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to stop such an assault happening again, saying Israel’s armed forces were “changing the security reality” of the region.

As the day of commemorations unfolded, Israel said it had intercepted more than 100 rockets fired by Hezbollah in Lebanon as well as projectiles launched by Yemen’s Houthis and from Hamas in Gaza.