Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri clapped his hands in applause Wednesday after MP Wael Abou Faour of the Progressive Socialist Party rejected any normalization agreement between Lebanon and Israel.

Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea on Wednesday stressed “the importance of building the future on firm and solid foundations based on security and stability.”

Lea Abou Karnib was with her two sisters and a sibling in a car on the Jarjou - Arab Salim road when an Israeli drone struck a car nearby.

On Wednesday, 16-year-old Abou Karnib died of her wounds, while her two sisters and their sibling survived their injuries.

Hezbollah said Wednesday that its chief Sheikh Naim Qassem met with Iran’s parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf and Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi “prior to their departure from Lebanon.”

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.

Hezbollah's parliamentary bloc on Tuesday gave its support to Lebanon's new government, which in a ministerial statement ahead of a confidence vote vowed a state monopoly on arms and the country's neutrality.

"We give our confidence to the government," said Mohammad Raad, the head of Hezbollah's parliamentary bloc, expressing hope the new administration would "succeed in opening the doors to real rescue for the country".

The head of Israel's Mossad foreign intelligence agency has called the exploding pagers and walkie talkies operation against Hezbollah militants in Lebanon and Syria a “turning point of the war,” which gave Israel momentum to deal a heavy blow to Hezbollah.

The devices used by hundreds of Hezbollah members exploded almost simultaneously in two waves on Sept. 17 and 18. The attack killed at least 12 people — including two young children — and wounded thousands more.

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