Evening recap

Our live coverage from Gaza will shortly be closing until tomorrow morning.

Here are some of the day's key developments:

• The Israeli delegation on Gaza ceasefire talks will head to Cairo on Saturday night or Sunday, Netanyahu’s office said.
• US Pentagon said it plans to boost military assets in the Middle East and deploy ‘additional land-based ballistic missile defense’.
• The representative of Hamas in Tehran has refuted reports that Ismail Haniyeh was killed by a bomb planted in his room long before his arrival to the Iranian capital.
• Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan called his Israeli counterpart Israel Katz a “monument to insolence”, in response to Katz’s statements in which he slammed Turkey.
• Israel releases Al-Aqsa Mosque imam Sheikh Ekrima Sabri, after arresting him for ‘incitement’ as he described Hamas chief Ismail Hanyieh as ‘martyr’ in Friday prayer sermon.
• US President Joe Biden told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a ‘tough’ phone call not to rely on Washington’s support in case a regional escalation occurred, according to Axios , citing unnamed US officials.
• The Israeli army said it destroyed launchers that fired rockets at southern Israeli towns, after it was earlier reported that 18 rockets were launched from Gaza in the span of one hour, with one intercepted and all others falling in open fields.