Here are Friday’s latest updates from the U.S.-Iran peace process and Israel’s war with Hezbollah:
■ Four IDF soldiers were killed in a strike on a tank in southern Lebanon overnight, including Lt. Col. Dor Gedalia Ben Simhona, a battalion commander, the army reported.
■ The Trump administration has been warned by U.S. intelligence agencies that Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu is “likely to take steps” that will sabotage the efforts to reach a lasting peace agreement with Iran, U.S. officials told The Washington Post.
■ U.S. President Donald Trump asked Israel earlier on Friday to agree to a cease-fire with Hezbollah, NBC News reports. An Israeli senior official confirmed to Haaretz that a truce was reached.
■ Israel’s Ambassador to the U.S., Yechiel Leiter, took to X in a first comment by an Israeli government official to the truce in Lebanon, saying that “Israel remains firmly committed to an immediate cease-fire” with Hezbollah, as local media in Lebanon reported that the IDF struck the southern city of Nabatieh al-Fawqa.
■ Talks that had been planned for Friday between the U.S. and Iran in Switzerland will not take place, according to a Swiss foreign ministry statement.
■ Two people were killed in an Israeli drone strike in southern Lebanon after the cease-fire agreement came into effect, state media and medical sources report.
■ Iranian Foreign Minister Araghchi said in a conversation with the Pakistani Foreign Minister Mohammad Ishaq Dar that “Any violation of the commitments outlined in the understanding [toward a peace agreement] will be the responsibility of the United States.”
■ Iran’s Strait of Hormuz body said it would waive planned fees to use the strait during a 60-day negotiation period under the newly emerging agreement signed with the United States this week.
■ Iran has requested guarantees that hostilities in Lebanon will end before resuming talks with the United States in Switzerland, a diplomat familiar with the matter told CNN.
■ Israeli opposition MK Naama Lazimi said on X that the government must “end the war in Lebanon” and withdraw troops from what she called the “Strip of Sacrifice” in order to reach an agreement with the Lebanese government.