Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed on Sunday to defeat his country’s “enemies”, a week after the Israeli military launched ground operations against Hezbollah in Lebanon and as Israel commemorated the victims of the attack it launched a year ago Hamas, sparking the war in the Gaza Strip.

In Tel Aviv, crowds gathered to light candles and pray in memory of their loved ones killed on October 7, 2023, in an unprecedented attack by Hamas militants in southern Israel.

After weakening Hamas during attacks on the Gaza Strip, the Israeli Armed Forces (IDF) have recently focused their operations on the northern front, where Lebanon’s Hezbollah has increased rocket attacks on Israel as a sign of support for Hamas.

On Sunday night, following an IDF warning to residents of Beirut’s southern suburbs, Lebanon’s ANI news agency reported four airstrikes in the area, which is a Hezbollah stronghold and has been pounded by Israel in recent days.

For its part, Hezbollah fired rockets at Haifa, in northern Israel, wounding at least five people, according to the Times of Israel.

“Together we will fight and together we will win,” declared Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, during his visit to soldiers stationed in northern Israel, along the border with Lebanon. “A year ago, we received a terrible blow,” he said, referring to the Hamas attack. Noting that much had changed in the twelve months that followed, Netanyahu told the soldiers: “The whole world is amazed by the blows you are dealing with our enemies.”

Israel’s prime minister is expected to address the nation today on the anniversary of the attack launched by Hamas that sparked the war in the Gaza Strip.

Israel’s chief of the national defense general staff, Herchi Halevi, stressed that his country is waging a “long-term war” against Hamas and Hezbollah, stressing that Hamas’s military arm “has been defeated.”

Meanwhile, Israel’s Defense Minister Yoav Gallad threatened Iran with strikes similar to those taking place in Gaza and Lebanon in retaliation for Tehran’s missile attack on Tuesday, sparking international concern of a wider Middle East flare-up.