Hezbollah fired rockets at Israel's third-largest city, Haifa, and Israel looked poised to expand its offensive into Lebanon on Monday, one year after the devastating Hamas attack on Israel that sparked the Gaza war.

Families of Israeli hostages still held in Gaza sounded a two-minute siren outside Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Jerusalem residence.

Israel has claimed to have targeted Hezbollah ’s intelligence headquarters in Beirut as it carried out strikes against the militant group’s leadership – with Iran ’s Ayatollah Ali Khamenei vowing that Tehran and its proxies will not back down.