Joel Gunter
Reporting from Beirut

This is the second time Israeli air strikes have hit Bachoura - a small Shia neighbourhood in central Beirut.

The first strike - a targeted hit on a building containing a health clinic, which the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) described as Hezbollah-affiliated - killed nine people.

From the roof of our hotel, BBC staff could see two plumes of smoke from what appeared to be two separate strikes close to Bachoura.

The total number of strikes tonight on central Beirut is not immediately clear. There was not an IDF warning ahead of the strikes.

This is the third time Israel has launched air strikes on the city outside of the suburb of Dahieh, where it has struck repeatedly, killing Hezbollah commanders and destroying munitions caches.

The French foreign ministry has expressed "deep concern" after Israeli forces fired on several UN positions in southern Lebanon in the last 24 hours, injuring two peacekeepers.

In a statement, the ministry says it "condemns any attack on the security" of Unifil - the UN Interim Force in Lebanon.

"We await explanations from the Israeli authorities," it adds, while confirming that none of the around 700 troops France supplies to Unifil have been wounded in the attacks.

Anna Foster
Reporting from Beirut

In the last few minutes, we’ve just seen and heard fresh Israeli air strikes in central Beirut.

The sound of several loud explosions rumbled and bounced off downtown’s tall buildings.

It’s only the second time Bachoura - a small Shia area with a Hezbollah presence, but far from the southern suburbs of Dahiyeh - has been hit.

We were in that area this afternoon. The loud buzzing of an Israeli drone was constantly audible, low in the sky above us.

People were nervous, they told us they feared another strike.

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As we've been reporting, the UN peacekeeping force in Lebanon says its headquarters in Naqoura and nearby positions were "repeatedly hit" by Israeli fire today.

In response, the European Union's foreign policy chief Josep Borrell says "another line has been dangerously crossed in Lebanon".

"We condemn this inadmissible act, for which there is no justification," Borrell says.

"Two blue helmets have been wounded and this is unacceptable. Any deliberate attack on peacekeepers is a grave violation of international humanitarian law and of the UNSC (UN Security Council) Resolution 1701: Israel has an obligation to respect both. Full accountability is needed."

David Gritten
BBC News

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The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (Unifil) currently has around 10,000 military peacekeepers from 50 contributing countries and about 800 civilian staff.

Unifil’s area of operations is in southern Lebanon, between the “Blue Line” - the unofficial boundary separating Lebanon from Israel and the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights - and the Litani river, about 30km (20 miles) to the north.

Its headquarters is in the coastal town of Naqoura and it has 50 positions spread across 1,060 sq km (410 sq miles).

The force was established by the UN Security Council in 1978, when Israeli forces invaded and occupied southern Lebanon for three months. It was tasked with confirming the Israeli withdrawal, restoring international peace and security, and helping the Lebanese government to re-establish control over the area.

Unifil’s peacekeepers remained in Lebanon, with adjusted mandates, following Israel’s next invasion of Lebanon in 1982 and its withdrawal from the south 18 years later.

After the month-long war between Israel and the Lebanese armed group Hezbollah in 2006, the UN Security Council enhanced Unifil’s mandate by passing resolution 1701, giving it additional tasks.

These included monitoring the cessation of hostilities and supporting the Lebanese Armed Forces in the establishment of an area south of the Litani river that is free of any armed personnel, assets and weapons belonging to non-state armed groups, including Hezbollah.

Since then, Unifil has accused both Israel and the Lebanese armed group Hezbollah of repeated breaches of the resolution.

We're hearing more now about the two UN peacekeepers injured after an Israeli tank fired on a watchtower at a UN base in southern Lebanon.

A UN spokesperson has confirmed that both of the injured peacekeepers are Indonesian.

Indonesia contributes more soldiers than any other country to Unifil, supplying more than 1,200 troops.

We're yet to hear from the Indonesian government in response to today's statement from the UN that Israeli forces have "repeatedly hit" Unifil positions in the last 24 hours.

Israel is also yet to comment.

Humanitarian pauses have been agreed to let a second round of polio vaccinations be administered in Gaza, according to the head of the United Nation's children's agency Unicef.

It says the campaign is targeting 590,000 children under the age of 10, and is due to start on Monday.

"Area-specific humanitarian pauses have been agreed," Unicef executive director Catherine Russell says.

In August, a series of humanitarian pauses to fighting in Gaza were agreed, to allow hundreds of thousands of children to be vaccinated against polio.

Read more: What is the plan to give polio vaccines to children in Gaza?

Images have emerged showing inside Rafidah school in Deir al-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip, which was damaged by an Israeli air strike earlier.

According to the Palestinian ministry of health in Gaza, at least 28 people were killed and more than 50 others injured at the school, which was sheltering Palestinians.

The IDF said it was targeting "terrorists who were operating inside a command and control center" and that it made efforts to mitigate civilian harm.

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As we've been reporting, two peacekeepers from the UN's Interim Force in Lebanon (Unifil) have been wounded after an Israeli tank fired on a watchtower at the mission's headquarters.

The UN says Israeli forces have "repeatedly hit" UN positions the last 24 hours - Israel has not yet responded.

We can bring you some reaction now from two of the countries that contribute the most troops to Unifil.

In Italy, which supplies more than 1,000 soldiers, defence minister Guido Crosetto says the incidents are "intolerable, they must be carefully and decisively avoided", and has summoned the Israeli ambassador.

And in Ireland, which sends over 300 troops, Taoiseach (Irish prime minister) Simon Harris confirms that all Irish personnel were accounted for and that "the Blue Helmet worn by UN peacekeepers must be sacrosanct".

Riam Dalati
Reporting from Lebanon

Earlier we reported on the deaths of five health workers in an Israeli strike in Derdghaiya, southern Lebanon last night.

The government-run Lebanese Civil Defence emergency service says the five workers were waiting in a makeshift centre in a church hall in the southern town of Derdghaiya when it was hit by an Israeli air strike.

We've spoken to Father Maurice Khoury, head of the St George'sCatholic parish church there, who says those killed were "a model for humanity and chivalry. They sacrificed their lives for the wellbeing of others".

Father Maurice adds that parishioners and villagers tell him there was no military presence on church grounds, and no gunmen in the vicinity. He says he doesn’t know how the health workers “would have a target on their backs?"

Father Maurice, who left the village on 22 September right before the Israeli escalation, says the health workers killed were looking after the 200-400 displaced people seeking shelter there.

"The church's two halls were filled with IDPs [international displaced persons]. The Civil Defense used to come with food, water and aid. They were the only one supplying aid to the IDPs," Father Maurice tells us.

He says one of those who was killed was "the pinnacle of generosity" while another "was a member of my parish. He was my right-hand man. He strived to provide a dignified life for his wife and three daughters. What wrong did they do?"

Israel says it only attacks military targets and the town was in an area which the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) had warned people to leave.

The BBC has approached the IDF for comment.

With additional reporting by Joanna Majzoub.

As we've been reporting, the UN says Israeli forces have "repeatedly hit" UN positions in southern Lebanon in the last 24 hours, with two peacekeepers injured by Israeli tank fire.

A spokesperson for the UN peacekeeping mission Unifil tells the BBC it is "alarmed" and "deeply concerned" by the Israeli army's activity in the area where peacekeeping troops are based.

Andrea Tenenti says: "We've been deeply concerned for days or for months but now it's very serious because we are there to ensure stability, safety, to bring back stability that now doesn't exist.

"But targeting peacekeepers, it's a grave violation of international humanitarian law."

He says the positions that were hit were very well known as UN sites, adding that it's important to have a discussion with the Israeli authorities "to understand what happened".

The Lebanese ministry of public health says an Israeli air strike on the village of Karak in eastern Lebanon has killed four people.

It adds that 17 people were also wounded in the strike.

Work to lift debris resulting from the strike is still ongoing, it adds. The Israeli military has not yet commented.

Imogen Foulkes
Geneva correspondent

A UN commission of inquiry says Israeli attacks on health care facilities in Gaza, and Israel’s treatment of Palestinian detainees, amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity.

In their latest report the independent investigators, led by former UN human rights commissioner Navi Pillay, say "Israel has perpetrated a concerted policy to destroy Gaza’s healthcare system as part of a broader assault on Gaza, committing war crimes and the crime against humanity of extermination with relentless and deliberate attacks on medical personnel and facilities".

Their report claims that thousands of people, including children, have been detained, and subjected to "widespread and systematic abuse", including torture, rape, and other sexual violence.

The report also finds that Israeli and other hostages in Gaza have been subjected to abuse in captivity, "including physical violence... sexual violence, forced isolation, limited access to hygiene facilities, water and food, threats and humiliation".

The UN investigators say Hamas and other Palestinian armed groups have committed war crimes, and crimes against humanity.

Paul Adams
Diplomatic correspondent

When Israel and Hezbollah go to war, Unifil (the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon) sometimes gets stuck in the middle.

Sometimes the consequences have been fatal.

In 2006, during the last major confrontation, a UN Observation Position (OP) came under Israeli artillery and aerial bombardment.

Despite repeated appeals to the IDF to stop firing, throughout 25 July, the OP on the outskirts of the village of Khiam was finally destroyed.

Four UN military observers from Austria, Canada, China and Finland were killed.

Israel’s ambassador to the US, Danny Ayalon, said “Unifil obviously got caught in the middle", and suggested that the deadly fire could have come from Hezbollah.

A UN investigation concluded that the base had been destroyed by a 500kg precision-guided bomb dropped by an Israeli warplane.

Israel concluded that human error was to blame.

The following spring, as we reported on the aftermath of the war, the UN flew us to the outpost.

Despite the beauty of the scenery, it was a bleak spot, full of undisturbed wreckage, including the outpost’s shattered walls, painted in the familiar whitewash of all UN buildings.

In 1996, during an earlier round of fighting, Israeli artillery shells hit another UN compound, at Qana, where around 800 displaced Lebanese civilians were sheltering.

106 civilians were killed and four Fijian peacekeepers were injured.

Southern Lebanon was targeted overnight by more Israeli strikes, damaging buildings and killing five health workers. The city of Beirut was also hit.

Lebanese state media has been reporting that air strikes have continued in the south of the country again today.

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Analysing the scene of an Israeli air strike on Gaza schoolpublished at 14:49 British Summer Time 10 October

14:49 BST 10 October

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By Paul Brown

BBC Verify has analysed footage showing the scene of an Israeli air strike on a school complex in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza, which the Hamas-run health ministry says has killed at least 28 people.

The IDF said it was targeting "terrorists who were operating inside a command and control center" and that efforts were made to mitigate civilian harm.

The footage, geolocated to Rafidah school, shows a distinctive building with two large arches which matched photos on the school's Facebook page.

Images were also cross-referenced with satellite imagery.

The school building is within the IDF-designated "humanitarian zone" to which displaced Gazans have been encouraged to seek shelter.

Palestinian social media reports say the building itself was being used by displaced people.

Graphic footage also showed dead and injured people arriving at al-Aqsa hospital, around a mile away.

So far this month, the IDF has claimed that in eight school building strikes, Hamas or "terrorist" operatives were the targets.

Thomas Copeland
Live reporter

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As we've reported, at least 1.2 million people across Lebanon have been displaced in recent weeks, with many making their way to Beirut for refuge.

Anthony Saade, a volunteer helping the displaced in Beirut, tells me whichever way you look, you see "destruction and displacement, or people mobilising to help".

"Without those volunteers, I'm not sure the country would have been able to withstand what's been going on," he says.

Saade, 30, moved back to Lebanon in August after 13 years in Canada and says he isn't sure if he was naïve or optimistic to think that life in Lebanon would be better than when he left.

"We are all shocked at the ferocity and violence of the bombings," Saade says, "and the ineptitude of our government in handling this crisis".

"The feeling of being powerless ignites a fire in a lot of us, that if there's anything that we can do to help, we will do it."

Hezbollah says it's continuing to send rockets into northern Israel this afternoon, and in the last few minutes Israel's military says it's detected 50 launches coming across the border from Lebanon.

In several posts on Telegram, the Iran-backed group says it has fired rockets at the Israeli city of Karmiel in northern Israel, and also Kfar Giladi in the north-east.

It also says it fired rockets at Israeli soldiers on the ground in the Naqoura area, south-west Lebanon. That's the same area where the UN reported its peacekeepers had been injured by fire earlier.

Earlier today, Hezbollah also says it used guided missiles to destroy an Israeli tank heading towards Naqoura, leading to casualties.

Gabriela Pomeroy
Live reporter

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• UN peacekeepers wounded: In the last hour, the UN says its positions in southern Lebanon have come under fire from Israeli forces. Two peacekeepers were injured after tank fire hit a watchtower, and fire from Israeli soldiers also hit a UN bunker, it says
• Gaza school strike: An Israeli air strike has hit a school sheltering displaced people in Deir al-Balah. The Hamas-run health ministry says at least 28 people were killed. The Israeli army (IDF) says the site was being used as a Hamas command and control centre from which to launch attacks on Israel
• Jabalia on the ground: Further north in Gaza, fighting has been continuing in Jabalia. The IDF says it's "eliminated 50 terrorist operatives" in the area in the past day
• Hezbollah rockets: The Iran-backed group says it's been firing more rockets from Lebanon into northern Israel - most recently to the city of Karmiel
• More strikes last night: Last night, five health workers were killed in an air strike on the south Lebanon village of Derdghaiya. Lebanon's emergency medical service says it fears its rescue missions would be affected. Separately, the Israeli military says it killed two Hezbollah commanders who had planned the rocket attacks into northern Israel
• Coming up: The UN Security Council will meet this afternoon for talks on Lebanon

The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (Unifil) says its headquarters came under fire earlier today.

The headquarters is in Naqoura, a coastal town in the south-west of Lebanon.

Earlier this week, Israel's military expanded its ground invasion of southern Lebanon further west and told people in Naqoura - as well as dozens of other towns and villages - to evacuate.