Israel-Gaza updates: IDF says it expects war to last all of 2024

The IDF said it has located and destroyed a hideout apartment of Yahya Sinwar -- a Hamas leader -- near Gaza City in the northern Gaza Strip.

IDF soldiers examined the apartment using additional technological means and found that a strategic tunnel shaft was located on the basement floor. The soldiers inspected the tunnel shaft and reached a 715-foot tunnel with a depth of over 65 feet that was apparently used by the senior officials of Hamas’ Military and Political Wing, according to the IDF.

The IDF said that the tunnel had an electrical network, ventilation and sewage infrastructure, hideout materials, prayer rooms and resting rooms. The IDF said the tunnel was built so that it would be possible to stay inside it and conduct combat for long periods of time.

-ABC News' Dana Savir

A 50-year-old woman who has been a cancer patient for three years says she has not been able to receive her continuing treatment in Jerusalem since the war began, she told ABC News.

Rida Kaskeen, who now lives in a makeshift tent in Rafah, had received chemical treatment for her cancer in Jerusalem before the war began. But since it started, border closures have kept her from being able to get her treatment.

"I am a cancer patient. I used to go every two weeks to take my dose in Al-Mutalaa Hospital. They were all there with respect and appreciation. They provided me with everything, from a hotel or in the hospital, to everything I wanted and needed. They were doing their duty and more," Kaskeen told ABC News.

"My last dose was a week before the war. Every two weeks is the dose, and I have not taken the treatment for three months, and I know my end because I didn’t take the treatment and I lost weight and my situation is miserable,” Kaskeen said.

-ABC News' Sami Zayara

Hamas leader Osama Hamdan said he would not travel to Cairo on Friday to discuss its proposed cease-fire and hostage deal.

"There will be no visit by a Hamas delegation to Cairo today," Hamdan said.

Another Hamas leader said the terror group would not negotiate while "under fire."

"Any negotiations on the exchange of prisoners will take place after the cease-fire and the occupation’s withdrawal from Gaza," Hamas leader Musa Abu Marzouk said. "We will not negotiate under fire."

-ABC News' Nasser Atta

A man armed with a knife stabbed two officers working at the Mazmuria Crossing in southern Jerusalem on Thursday night, according to Israeli police.

The suspect stopped his car near the crossing's inspection station and then got out and stabbed two security personnel who were on duty, police said.

One of the victims, as well as a border police officer, "confronted the terrorist, neutralizing him with gunfire," police said.

The victims suffered "light to moderate injuries," police said.