The Times of Israel is liveblogging Friday’s events as they unfold.

Hillary Clinton says she is confident her husband knew nothing about Epstein’s crimes

Hillary Clinton says she is confident her husband, former US president Bill Clinton, knew nothing of sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s crimes when they were still in contact.

“I think the chronology of the connection that he had with Epstein ended years, several years, before anything about Epstein’s criminal activities came to light,” Hillary Clinton says after giving what she describes as a “long and very repetitive” deposition before a US congressional committee probing Epstein’s crimes.

Palestinian media reports 3 killed in IDF strike on Hamas-run police station in south Gaza

Palestinian media reports at least three people were killed and several others wounded in an Israeli airstrike a short while ago on a facility of Gaza’s Hamas-run police in Mawasi, west of Khan Younis in the Strip’s south.

The IDF doesn’t immediately comment on the reports.

Former hostage Matan Angrest says he was electrocuted in captivity

Former hostage Matan Angrest says he was tortured and electrocuted during his two-plus years in Hamas captivity.

“For eight hours in a row, I sat and had to tell them things, during which I knew that it wasn’t just about my own well-being but the security of the country at stake. There are things that are in the realm of ‘die and don’t tell,'” Angrest tells Channel 12’s Uvda investigative program, indicating that he was exposed to highly classified intelligence during his service in an elite tank unit.

Angrest recalls opening his eyes for the first time after he was kidnapped from his tank, which was hit by an RPG on the Gaza border.

He says he found himself in a home in Gaza with over half a dozen Palestinians sitting in front of him.

They began asking him questions about where he served and where he was kidnapped from, but the questions were in Arabic and he didn’t understand. His captors then got angry and started beating him while his hands and feet were tied.

He says he couldn’t move his arm because it was burned so badly.

“Someone came to me with two cables and put them on my wound and just turned (a machine) on. I could feel myself being electrocuted. I screamed in a pain that is impossible to describe,” Angrest says.

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