Hezbollah deputy chief Naim Qassem said Tuesday the militant group supported Lebanese efforts for a ceasefire with Israel, after two weeks of heavy Israeli strikes that killed its leader.

"We support the political efforts that (Lebanese Parliament Speaker) Nabih Berri is undertaking towards a ceasefire," Qassem said in a televised speech.

After nearly a year of cross-border clashes, Israel intensified its bombing campaign on September 23, killing more than 1,150 people and displacing over a million since, according to official figures.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned Lebanon Tuesday it could face destruction "like Gaza" as Israel ramps up its ground offensive against Hezbollah along the southern section of the Lebanese coast.

Netanyahu's stark warning came as the Israeli military deployed more troops and urged civilians in coastal areas to evacuate.

"You have an opportunity to save Lebanon before it falls into the abyss of a long war that will lead to destruction and suffering like we see in Gaza," Netanyahu said in a video address directed to the people of Lebanon.

A war monitor said four people were killed in an Israeli air strike on Tuesday targeting a building in the Syrian capital used by Iran's Revolutionary Guards and Lebanon's Hezbollah.

"Israel targeted a building frequented by senior Revolutionary Guards and Hezbollah operatives, as well as a car parked in front of the building... killing four people," the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.

Israel's bombardment of Hezbollah's south Beirut stronghold has forced tens of thousands to flee to the city centre, but many in sectarian Lebanon view the newcomers with suspicion, worried they too might become targets.

For weeks, Israeli strikes have widened in pursuit of Hezbollah members, leading many Lebanese to shun civilians from the same religious community as the Iran-backed group.

Jila Mossaed fled Iran for Sweden in 1986, a 38-year-old poet who spoke no Swedish. Three decades later, she became the first foreigner inducted into Sweden's highest language authority, the Swedish Academy, which awards the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Now she writes in Farsi and Swedish, but Mossaed struggled for years to learn Swedish and still stumbles over pronunciation, she told AFP in the halls of the Academy, founded in 1786 by King Gustav III to promote the Swedish language and literature.

Kais Saied, who has been re-elected president of Tunisia, was first elected democratically in 2019 before staging a power grab in 2021.

He sees himself as a man on a divine mission, but critics see him as ushering in a new authoritarian regime.

Clean-shaven, with an unwaveringly upright and slender figure, Saied has a stiff demeanour.

He gives very few media interviews, and limits his public comments to monologues in videos published on Facebook in which he speaks in stern classical Arabic, at times with perceptible anger.

Kais Saied has been re-elected president of Tunisia with 90.69 percent of votes cast, electoral authority ISIE said Monday, although low turnout reflected widespread discontent in the cradle of the Arab Spring pro-democracy uprisings.

Three years after Saied made a sweeping power grab, rights groups fear his re-election will entrench his grip on the only democracy to emerge from the 2011 protests.

Saied, 66, won Sunday's vote by a landslide with 2.4 million votes -- but with turnout at only 28.8 percent of nearly 10 million eligible voters.

Families and relatives of those killed or abducted during Hamas's October 7 attack on Israel gathered late Monday in Tel Aviv, where musicians performed as victims' images flashed on screens.

The ceremony was broadcast live and interspersed with pre-recorded video clips of relatives recalling their lost loved ones, and telling the tragic stories of their deaths.

"The whole nation is waiting for the next stage, for our rehabilitation," said Nitza Corngold, whose son Tal Shoham was seized by militants during last year's attack.

Police arrested several pro-Palestinian protesters in Amsterdam Monday, as tensions erupted around events in the city to mark the one-year anniversary of Hamas's October 7 attack on Israel.

Riot officers carrying shields and batons deployed in force in the Dutch capital as people gathered in the Dam central square to mourn those killed one year ago.

While the pro-Israeli group was listening to speeches and concerts, counter-demonstrators began to shout slogans.

Mourners and leaders around the world on Monday voiced horror and a desire for peace at tearful memorials remembering the unprecedented October 7, 2023 Hamas attack on Israel that sparked a year of devastating war in Gaza.

People from Sydney to Rome and Warsaw to Washington grieved for those killed and urged freedom for those taken hostage one year ago, while rallies also called for peace in the Palestinian territories.

The Hamas onslaught left 1,206 dead on the Israeli side, mostly civilians, according to an AFP tally based on the latest official Israeli figures.