 After being stalled for weeks, diplomatic efforts to try to end the nine-month-long war in Gaza appear to be gathering pace. Hamas is now reported to be showing greater flexibility in its positions on a new US-backed ceasefire deal. But at the same time, there's been a new surge in violence in the parallel conflict across the Israel-Lebanon border. Hezbollah launched some 200 rockets and 20 attack drones at northern Israel a day after one of its top commanders was killed in an Israeli airstrike.