Progress on brokering a cease-fire in Gaza and Lebanon were foremost on the agenda of the Group of 7 meeting outside Rome.

Foreign ministers from the world’s leading industrialized nations are meeting in Italy. Hopes for brokering a cease-fire in Gaza and Lebanon are foremost on the agenda of the Group of Seven meeting outside Rome.

As the G7 ministers arrived in Italy, Israel’s ambassador to the U.S., Mike Herzog, told Israeli Army Radio on Monday a cease-fire deal to end fighting between Israel and the Lebanon-based Hezbollah could be reached “within days.