Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency says an Israeli drone strike on a car in the eastern part of the country has killed two people. The strike came after Lebanon’s militant Hezbollah group carried out an attack along the border that killed an Israeli civilian. Meanwhile, Egypt has sent a high-level delegation to Israel in the hope of reaching a cease-fire agreement with Hamas in Gaza. Officials say it warned that a possible new Israeli offensive focused on Rafah could have catastrophic consequences for regional stability. Rafah is in southern Gaza on the border with Egypt.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken says the U.S. has determined that an Israeli military unit committed grave human-rights abuses against Palestinians in the West Bank before the war in Gaza. But he says the U.S. will postpone a decision on blocking aid to the battalion to give Israel more time to right the wrongdoing. The news comes in a letter from Blinken to House Speaker Mike Johnson obtained by The Associated Press on Friday. At stake is whether the U.S. will withhold assistance to an Israeli military unit for the first time. Israeli leaders had protested angrily this week in anticipation of a U.S. decision.

A Ukrainian court has ordered the detention of the country’s farm minister in the latest high-profile corruption investigation. The minister, who is suspected of unlawfully obtaining valuable land, was released on bail. Ukraine is trying to root out corruption. Also on Friday, Kyiv security officials were assessing how they can recover battlefield momentum in the war. Russia has been taking control of small settlements as part of its effort to drive deeper into eastern Ukraine despite sustaining high losses. Military analysts say it’s been slow going for the Kremlin’s troops in eastern Ukraine and is likely to stay that way. But the key hilltop town of Chasiv Yar is vulnerable to Russian attacks.

Help is finally on the way for the most critically eroded part of the Jersey Shore. North Wildwood and the state have been fighting in court for years over measures the town has taken on its own to try to hold off the encroaching seas while waiting — in vain — for the same sort of replenishment projects that virtually the entire rest of the Jersey Shore has received. Now the state and city have agreed on an emergency sand-replenishment project to protect the town until a full-blown beach reconstruction can take place in another year or two. Dunes in some spots of North Wildwood are only ankle high. The temporary sand pumping could be done by July 4.