Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has agreed to send delegations to Egypt and Qatar, where negotiators have been trying to secure the release of Israeli hostages as part of a possible Gaza ceasefire deal, his office said Friday. Earlier, the Israeli military said the deputy commander of a Hezbollah military unit was killed in an air strike in south Lebanon, the latest episode of deadly cross-border violence since the Israel-Hamas war began. Read our blog to find out how the day's events unfolded.
