We'll end our live coverage here.

To recap, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has arrived in Pakistan but will not meet with the United States for peace talks. 

The White House earlier said that Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff would travel to Pakistan to engage in direct talks with the Iranians.

Meanwhile, Iran's Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) says it has seized a ship suspected of collaborating with the US military.

We'll continue tracking developments as they unfold and will return with the live blog tomorrow.

In the meantime, have a good rest of your day.

Earlier, we brought you photos of Iranian negotiators arriving in Islamabad ahead of negotiations in Pakistan.

More images have no crossed our desks of security in force ahead of the talks. 

This particular barricade is nearby the Serena Hotel, where talks are expected to be held.

As a reminder, Iran has said that there are no plans for a meeting between Iranian and US negotiators, but Iran's delegation does plan to meet with Pakistani officials.

It might be hard to imagine the Iran war weighing on stuffed toys with names like Snuggle Glove, Bizzikins and Wobblies, but even plush playthings are not immune when oil shipments from the Middle East are constrained.

Many soft toys are made with polyester and acrylic, synthetic fibers derived from petroleum.

It's not just toys though. 

Petrochemicals derived from oil and natural gas go into making more than 6,000 consumer products, according to the US Department of Energy.

Computer keyboards, lipstick, tennis rackets, pajamas, soft contact lenses, detergent, chewing gum, shoes, crayons, shaving cream, pillows, aspirin, dentures, tape, umbrellas and nylon guitar strings are just a few of them.

Reporting with AP

A third US aircraft carrier has arrived in the Middle East, bringing thousands more American troops and dozens of advanced fighter jets to the region.

The USS George HW Bush entered waters near Iran after a week of chaos in the Strait of Hormuz, with no sign of peace talks resuming.

The US Central Command, which oversees military operations in the Middle East, posted an image on X of the carrier with its deck packed with warplanes.

ABC journalist Annika Burgess has more on why it's "highly unusual" to have three carriers in the area: 

The US Central Command has said in a post on X that the guided-missile destroyer USS Rafael Peralta intercepted an Iranian-flagged ship attempting to sail to a port in Iran.

The US military has redirected at least 34 ships since the White House leveled the blockade on April 13.

According to the Committee to Protect Journalists, the Israel Defense Forces has committed more targeted killings of journalists than any other government's military since 1992.

Israel often defends its actions by claiming the journalists are militants disguising themselves in press flak jackets. These are often unsubstantiated claims based on flimsy evidence.

ABC's global affairs editor Laura Tingle has more:

Fractures between the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and the political arm of the Iranian government emerged publicly last week, as Islamic Republic officials appeared to disagree over how to handle its key bargaining chip: the Strait of Hormuz.

Iran Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi declared the Strait of Hormuz "completely open" last Friday, after a ceasefire was struck between Lebanon and Israel.

US President Donald Trump then declared victory over the strait and confirmed the US blockade on Iranian ports "will remain in full force".

But the next day, the IRGC announced the strait was closed again.

Araghchi's declaration was swiftly criticised by media outlets linked to the IRGC.

The state-run Mehr news agency accused him of giving Mr Trump a political advantage, saying the remarks allowed him to "declare himself the winner of the war and celebrate victory".

For more information on who is actually running Iran, ABC correspondent Bridget Rollason in Jerusalem and Lucia Stein have you covered:

Shortly after Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi touched down in Pakistan, his government made it clear there would be no direct negotiations with the US.

Instead, Araghchi will be meeting with high-level Pakistani officials "in concert with their ongoing mediation and good offices for ending American imposed war of aggression and the restitution of peace in our region".

Gaza's civil defence agency said Israeli strikes across the Palestinian territory on Friday, local time, killed at least 13 people, including five in an attack that targeted a police vehicle.

Despite an October ceasefire, Gaza remains gripped by daily violence as Israeli strikes continue and both the Israeli military and Hamas accuse one another of breaking the truce.

Eight people, including a child, were killed and several others injured when an Israeli air strike hit a police vehicle in the Al-Mawasi area of the southern city of Khan Yunis, said the civil defence agency.

In a separate incident, three people — a woman and her two children — were killed when Israeli artillery struck residential homes near Kamal Adwan hospital in Beit Lahia in northern Gaza.

In a third attack, an Israeli aircraft struck another police patrol in Gaza City, the territory's largest urban centre, killing two people and injuring two others, it added.

Reporting with AFP