Evening Recap

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Here are some of the day's key developments:

At least 22 people have been killed and 117 wounded in central Beirut after Israeli airstrikes reportedly targeting a senior Hezbollah political figure leveled one building and badly damaged another. Wafiq Safa remains alive, Lebanese security sources told Reuters. 

A UN inquiry said on Thursday it found that Israel carried out a concerted policy of destroying Gaza's healthcare system, actions amounting to both war crimes and the crime against humanity of extermination.

Italy's Defence Minister said that Israel shooting at UN peacekeepers along the demarcation line in Lebanon could constitute a war crime, after summoning Israel's ambassador to Italy on Thursday.

Unicef, the UN children's agency, has said that humanitarian pauses have been agreed to allow for a second round of polio vaccinations for 590,000 children under the age of 10, starting from 14 October.

Chancellor Olaf Scholz has said that Germany will send more weapons to Israel soon, following a drop in deliveries this year which prompted opposition accusations that Berlin has delayed exports.