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The conflict between Israel and Hamas in Gaza has reached its one-year mark. On the morning of October 7, Hamas initiated an unexpected attack, launching thousands of rockets and sending fighters into Israeli towns adjacent to the Gaza Strip during a major Jewish holiday.

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Hamas attacks in Israel, one year anniversary

Israel has held ceremonies to remember the victims of the mass killings and abductions carried out by Hamas on 7 October 2023, against a backdrop of continuing fighting in Gaza and Lebanon. A year on from the attack - that saw some 1,200 people killed and 251 taken hostage - Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to stop such an assault happening again, saying Israel's armed forces were “changing the security reality” of the region. The conflict which followed Hamas's attack has seen almost 42,000 deaths in the Gaza Strip according to the Hamas-run health ministry. As the day of commemorations unfolded, Israel said it intercepted more than 100 rockets fired by Hezbollah in Lebanon as well as projectiles launched by Yemen's Houthis and from Hamas in Gaza. Last October, gunmen from Hamas broke through the border fence and rampaged through nearby Israeli villages, Kibbutzim, military posts and the Nova music festival. On Monday, families of the hundreds killed and dozens of people taken hostage at the festival gathered…