Yesterday's key developments:
• US and Iranian negotiators agreed on a framework for a 60-day ceasefire extension deal, but it still needs President Donald Trump's approval.
• Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that he had ordered the country's military to take control of 70 percent of the devastated Gaza Strip, in defiance of the terms of a US-backed ceasefire that took effect in October.
• The Israeli military pounded Lebanon's fourth-largest city, killing at least 14 people across the south of the country in its ongoing military escalation against the Hezbollah group ahead of crucial talks in Washington.
• This year's United Nations report on sexual violence in conflict zones will include Israeli entities, with the organisation citing "credible information" regarding sexual violence allegedly committed by Israeli security forces against Palestinian detainees in prisons and other detention centres.
