Members of Kibbutz Be’eri gathered amid the ruins of their homes to call for the return of the hostages during a commemoration of the Hamas attack a year ago on Monday.
The community saw 101 people killed and 30 taken as hostages on Oct. 7, 2023.
Some of the women and children from the kibbutz were released in a cease-fire deal in November, but 10 hostages from Be’eri remain in captivity, most of whom, Israeli intelligence no longer believe to be alive.
The families and friends of people massacred at the Nova music festival gathered at the site of the attack on Monday.
One year ago today, nearly 400 festival-goers were gunned down during Hamas’ Oct. 7 2023 assault.
Photographs of those who died were arranged in a semicircle around what was the DJ stage.
Air strikes pounded southern Beirut on Sunday in the most intense bombardment of the Lebanese capital since Israel escalated its campaign against Hezbollah.
The Jewish state's military said fighter jets hit targets belonging to the terror group's intelligence headquarters, as well as its weapons storage facilities.
Strikes were also launched against Hezbollah targets in southern Lebanon and the Beqaa area.
A year to the day on from the Hamas attack which sparked the current violence in the Middle East, Israel remains in mourning and at war.
Israel continued the bombardment of its foes to the north and to the south overnight as Israelis prepared to mark the anniversary of the deadliest day in their history.
Late on Sunday, further airstrikes were launched against Hezbollah in Lebanon and Hamas in Gaza.
Ireland has refused to remove its U.N. peacekeeping troops from Lebanon, as Israel intensified its aerial bombardment of Hezbollah.
The Irish president, Michael D Higgins, claimed in a statement the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) were making “outrageous” threats against the peacekeepers and were seeking "to have them evacuate the villages that they are defending.”
Dublin has 347 peacekeeping troops stationed in southern Lebanon as part of a joint battalion with Poland.