Israel's Netanyahu approves new round of Gaza ceasefire talks 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.