Israel battled on multiple fronts on Monday, intensifying its fight with Lebanon's Hezbollah as PM Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to press the 'sacred mission' against Israel's enemies, on the first anniversary of the deadliest attack in Israeli history.

A Syrian family shelters at a makeshift encampment where scores of displaced people live, amid hostilities between Hezbollah and Israeli forces, at a beach in Beirut, Lebanon, October 1, 2024. REUTERS/Louisa Gouliamaki BEIRUT (Reuters) - The repeated blasts in Beirut's southern suburbs where Israel has been carrying out airstrikes this week have driven Zeina Nazha and her young daughter to camp on a city beach seeking safety from the war in Lebanon.

Massive explosions have shaken Beirut again - with footage showing the blasts in the southern suburbs of the city of Sunday night. The attacks came on the eve of October 7, the anniversary of Hamas' terrorist attack on Israel, in which some 1,200 were killed and hundreds more were taken hostage.

Hezbollah rockets hit Israel's third-largest city of Haifa early on Monday, in the first direct attack on the northern city that evaded the military's usually reliable air defence systems.