The MPs of the Free Patriotic Movement walked out Wednesday of a parliamentary session debating the new government’s policy statement, after Speaker Nabih Berri refused to allow a second MP from the bloc to deliver a speech.

Steve Witkoff, U.S. President Donald Trump’s point person on the Middle East, has voiced optimism at efforts to bring Saudi Arabia into the Abraham Accords, a series of normalization agreements between Israel and Arab states that Trump brokered during his first term.

For the second consecutive day, Hezbollah received condolences Wednesday in Dahieh over Israel’s killing of its leaders Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah and Sayyed Hashem Safieddine.

Israeli warplanes on Wednesday overflew the eastern sector of south Lebanon and the Baalbek-Hermel region at low altitudes.

Druze leader Walid Jumblat has offered condolences to Hezbollah in Dahieh over Israel’s killing of the party’s leaders Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah and Sayyed Hashem Safieddine.

President Joseph Aoun on Tuesday stressed that “Lebanon’s rise is a collective responsibility.”

Free Patriotic Movement chief Jebran Bassil on Tuesday visited Beirut’s southern suburbs to offer condolences to Hezbollah over the death of slain leaders Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah and Sayyed Hashem Safieddine.

Free Patriotic Movement chief Jebran Bassil on Tuesday declared “positive opposition” to Nawaf Salam’s government, hoping it will not turn into “a fierce and comprehensive opposition.”

Iran has put its defense systems around its nuclear sites on high alert amid fears of an attack by Israel and the U.S., The Telegraph British newspaper said Tuesday.

The daily said that, according to two high-level government sources, Iran has been on high alert and that several additional air defense system launchers have been deployed.

Hezbollah published Tuesday the names and faces of 35 of its commanders killed "on the road to Jerusalem," in addition to former leaders Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah and Sayyed Hashem Safieddine.

The 35 Hezbollah leaders killed in the 13 months war with Israel are: