Iran has summoned the Australian ambassador in Tehran over what it called his country's biased stance regarding Iran's recent missle attack on Israel.

The Australian envoy, Ian McConville, was summoned on grounds of bias regarding Iran's response to what Tehran called "the Zionist regime", in a reference to Israel.

However, Australia "makes no apology for the views it has expressed about Iran's actions or the actions of its ambassador to Australia", a spokesperson for its department of foreign affairs and trade said.

Israel today said that at least four projectiles were fired from the Gaza Strip just minutes after the country began to formally commemorate last year's October 7 Hamas attacks. 

"Following the sirens that sounded at 06:31 in several communities near the Gaza Strip, four projectiles were identified crossing from the southern Gaza Strip. Three of the projectiles were intercepted by the IAF (air force) and a fallen projectile was identified in an open area," the Israeli military said in a statement. 

The military said sirens also sounded in the Upper Galilee area of northern Israel, with no let-up in the daily rocket fire from neighbouring Lebanon, where Israeli forces are fighting Hezbollah militants.

🚨Sirens sounded in Israeli communities surrounding Gaza a few moments ago.
At exactly this time last year, sirens were sounded all over Israel, marking the beginning of Hamas’ October 7 Massacre.

— Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) October 7, 2024

The mother of a British woman, who was among those taken hostage by Hamas on October 7, has written a heartfelt letter to her daughter and urged UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer to ensure it's delivered in Gaza.

Israel has deployed more troops to defend southern communities and areas bordering Gaza, ahead of the anniversary of the Hamas attack.

"The IDF's (army) Gaza Division has been reinforced with several platoons, with forces stationed to defend both the communities and the border area," the military said in a statement.

"The soldiers are fully equipped to defend the region in coordination with local security forces," it said.

Inside Gaza, the military said three divisions were working to "dismantle terrorist infrastructure and degrade Hamas's capabilities".

Hezbollah said it hit a military base south of Haifa, Israel's third-largest city, with "Fadi 1" missiles.

Haifa after being struck by Hezbollah rockets on the night before #October7: pic.twitter.com/z3VXUz0Gt5

— Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) October 6, 2024

Israel continued air strikes in Beirut's southern suburbs on Sunday as part of its campaign against Hezbollah in Lebanon, where the Iran-backed group is based. 

The Israeli military said it "struck Hezbollah terrorist targets and weapons storage facilities in Beirut". It also said Israeli warplanes hit targets belonging to Hezbollah's intelligence headquarters in Beirut.

(Photo: Reuters)

On October 7, 2023, Hamas - a militant group which controlled Gaza - crossed over into Israel and launched 'Operation Al Aqsa Flood', a deadly terror attack, and killed over 1,200 people across the country.

Hamas has praised its October 7 attack on Israel ahead of the first anniversary of the deadly storming of southern Israeli towns.

"The crossing of the glorious 7th of October shattered the illusions the enemy had created for itself, convincing the world and the region of its supposed superiority and capabilities," Qatar-based Hamas member Khalil al-Hayya said in a video statement on Sunday.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday vowed to achieve victory and said his country's military "completely transformed reality" in the year since Hamas's October 7 attack.

He told troops Israel "will win" as they fought in the Gaza Strip and Lebanon and prepared to strike Iran, 

"A year ago, we suffered a terrible blow. Over the past 12 months, we have completely transformed reality," Netanyahu said during a visit to the Lebanon border.

היום עם חיילי צה"ל בגבול הצפון. כמה מטרים מכאן נמצאים חבריהם מעבר לגבול, מפרקים את תשתיות הטרור שחיזבאללה הכין כדי לתקוף את יישובינו.
אמרתי להם: אתם גיבורי התהילה. אתם - יחד עם חבריכם, חיילי צה"ל וכוחות הביטחון בעזה, ביו"ש, במרחב כולו - אתם מחוללים נפלאות, אתם אריות.
לפני שנה… pic.twitter.com/5R0lHbbEQf

— Benjamin Netanyahu - בנימין נתניהו (@netanyahu) October 6, 2024

As the war in Gaza broke out, the conflict in Lebanon also started with cross-border strikes by Iran-backed Hezbollah in solidarity with Hamas. 

More than 2,000 people have been killed in Lebanon in nearly a year of fighting, most in the past two weeks.

Tensions have subsequently spilled into the surrounding Middle East region.

In the past one year in the Gaza Strip, Israel has bombed more than 40,000 Hamas targets, found 4,700 tunnel shafts and destroyed 1,000 rocket launcher sites. On one-year anniversary of the Israel-Hamas war, the Israeli military today said its 726 soldiers had been killed since October 7, 2023. Of those, 380 died in the October 7 attacks and 346 in Gaza combat starting October 27, 2023.

Marking one year since the deadly October 7 Massacre, the IDF has established an exhibition displaying the items seized from Hamas terrorists who invaded Israel on October 7, as well as during the combat in Gaza, to showcase them to the world.
Since the beginning of the war, the… pic.twitter.com/pPXuc1DQiS

— Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) October 6, 2024

Today marks a year after the Palestinian group Hamas attacked Israel, triggering the war in the Gaza Strip. On October 7 last year, Hamas, a group backed by Iran, attacked southern Israeli towns, killing 1,200 people and taking about 250 as hostages, according to Israeli tallies. More than 100 hostages remain held by Hamas.

Israel's subsequent military assault on Gaza has since then killed more than 41,000 people, mostly civilians.