Discussions at the Lebanese-Israeli military meeting on October 20 will focus on mechanisms for establishing verifiable security arrangements, media reports quoted U.S. State Dept. officials as saying.

“This includes forming a verification committee to ensure that the area south of the Litani River is free of armed appearances, positions and facilities, alongside monitoring Israeli withdrawals and the deployment of the Lebanese Army,” the reports said.

Lebanese officials are discussing with the Lebanese delegation to the talks with Israel several ideas and strategies aimed at bypassing the U.S.-Israel conditions that seem to be crippling to Lebanon, a media report said.

Saudi envoy Prince Yazid bin Farhan will visit Lebanon next week and is expected to discuss the situation in the country with Lebanese officials, in light of regional developments and the upcoming Gulf-European summit scheduled for October 24 in Riyadh, al-Joumhouria newspaper reported on Tuesday.

The visit will also take place around a week before the new round of Lebanese-Israeli military negotiations, which is scheduled to take place in Tampa, Florida, between the 20th and 22nd of this month.

Speaker Nabih Berri is pushing for pacification between Prime Minister Nawaf Salam, Hezbollah and a large segment of southerners, sources close to Berri told Asharq al-Awsat newspaper.

This was reflected in Salam's visit to Nabatieh on Friday and was reaffirmed in his televised statements on Sunday evening on NBN, the TV channel affiliated with the Amal Movement led by Berri. In these statements, Salam affirmed the government's position on the Israeli withdrawal from the South and its commitment to restoring state authority and activating its institutions in the region.

On Israel's border with Lebanon where Hezbollah fired thousands of rockets and drones, previous backers of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu say they are rethinking how they will vote in the first election since the war.

"Many I know were right-wing and were Bibi supporters, and today they're not," said plant nursery owner Sigal Malachi, using a nickname for Israel's longest-serving premier.

British soldiers from the Support Company of the 4th Battalion of The Royal Regiment of Scotland (SCOTS), based at Dhekelia Garrison Cyprus, have arrived in Lebanon to join their Lebanese counterparts in the Air Assault Regiment in a landmark military exercise aimed at strengthening bilateral defense ties and enhancing operational readiness, the British embassy said on Monday.

The parliamentary subcommittee tasked with studying draft electoral laws held a session in parliament on Monday, after Deputy Speaker Elias Bou Saab was accused of calling for such a session to deviate attention from the “priority” of resolving the issue of Hezbollah’s arms.

"The session has concluded, contrary to what was expected by some, especially after what we heard in the media and on social platforms regarding attacks and criticisms over my call for this subcommittee to convene and discuss the laws listed on the agenda, which relate to the electoral law,” Bou Saab said after the session.

Kataeb Party chief MP Sami Gemayel noted Monday that Lebanon faces a “historic opportunity” to build a sovereign, independent, and stable state, calling on the state to move from decisions to execution, and not to miss the circumstances available today, as this opportunity may not recur.

“What is required today is the decision to execute. The state has taken decisions in principle, and the time has come to translate them, because the Lebanese want to live in freedom, dignity and safety on their land, and for Lebanon to be a state, not an arena for the conflicts of others,” Gemayel added.

The occupying Israeli forces are preparing for the harsh winter days in southern Lebanon, conducting exercises and improving key positions from which they will be able to control observation and fire on possible targets deep in the area, an Israeli report said, indicating that the Israeli army is not leaving the so-called Yellow Zone anytime soon.

“It is estimated that Hezbollah will continue to try to penetrate the pockets in the Yellow Line and attempt to strike IDF (Israeli army) fighters again,” Israel’s Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper reported.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday vowed to keep striking Hezbollah to "create an opportunity for peace” with Lebanon.

Netanyahu added that the Lebanese people, “for the most part, want peace” with Israel.