Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf has called on all Lebanese parties to implement the U.S.-Iran memorandum of understanding, saying it is essential to preventing internal strife.

"All components of Lebanon must work to implement the clause about Lebanon in the memorandum of understanding because it prevents civil strife," Ghalibaf said.

In the village of Kfaroue in southern Lebanon, Hussein Hamza makes his daily rounds to feed and check on his furry and feathered charges.

The number of animals in his care has multiplied since the outbreak of the latest Israeli war, as hundreds of thousands of southern Lebanon residents fled and were unable to take their pets or farm animals. In other cases, the owners were killed in Israeli airstrikes. Some animals came to him wounded.

President Joseph Aoun accused Hezbollah on Friday, without naming the group, of being accustomed to foreign control and tutelage, arguing that this is why they are obstructing the framework agreement that separates Lebanon's negotiations from Iran.

"Our sovereign decision to separate our path from the Iranian-American track is problematic for those who are accustomed to being under a tutelage that controls us, decides on our behalf, and negotiates over us," Aoun said, adding that Lebanon is a democratic country that respects freedom of opinion but that "inciting strife or attempting to bring down the government through street action are red lines."

Israel and Lebanon signed a framework deal last week to end months of conflict between Hezbollah and Israel. Hezbollah's opponents, including Samir Geagea and Sami Gemayel welcomed the deal. So did President Joseph Aoun and Prime Minister Nawaf Salam who had already vowed to extend the state's authority to all Lebanese territories.

Free Patriotic Movement leader Jebran Bassil voiced reservations but warned against dismissing it entirely.

The UK Deputy National Security Adviser Dame Barbara Woodward concluded a two‑day visit to Lebanon (1–2 July), focused on strengthening further cooperation between the UK and Lebanon, supporting regional stability, and reaffirming the UK’s long-standing commitment to Lebanon’s security and sovereignty.

Accompanied by Ambassador Hamish Cowell, Dame Barbara met Speaker Nabih Berri, Prime Minister Nawaf Salam, Deputy Prime Minister Tarek Mitri, and Lebanese Army Commander General Rodolphe Haykal. Discussions centered on the UK’s support for Lebanon’s efforts to extend state authority across all Lebanese territory, strengthen state institutions and a political settlement consistent with UNSCR 1701.

Prime Minister Nawaf Salam, who announced Thursday the creation of a high-level committee tasked with developing economic partnerships and security agreements with Syria, said Friday that the cooperation aims at "strengthening bilateral relations" to achieve the common interests of the two countries.

"With the aim of strengthening bilateral relations between Lebanon and Syria... and based on the principles of mutual respect for sovereignty, independence, territorial integrity, non-interference in internal affairs, and good-neighborliness; yesterday, alongside Syria's representative Asaad al-Shaibani, I signed the agreement establishing the Joint Lebanese-Syrian High Committee," Salam posted on the X platform.

After meeting Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad Shaibani for the first time, Hezbollah ally and Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri said Lebanon has no choice but to engage with Syria.

"Lebanon cannot cooperate with Israel, and if it refuses to deal with Syria, the Lebanese will be left with no choice but the sea," Berri told al-Modon newspaper in remarks published Friday.

France is preparing with Italy to deploy international coalition forces in southern Lebanon after the end of UNIFIL's mission, a French Foreign Ministry official told Al-Arabiya television.

Israel’s ambassador to Washington, Yechiel Leiter, claimed Thursday that the Lebanese Army is sidelining Shiite troops and officers who are unwilling to confront Hezbollah, saying the move reflects a growing readiness in Beirut to act against the group under the new framework agreement with Israel.

Speaking on a podcast, Leiter said the Lebanese Armed Forces are more capable of confronting Hezbollah than they sometimes appear, but that "willingness" inside the army had been a central obstacle.

The Israeli army said Thursday that it eliminated a Hezbollah operative after he emerged from an underground infrastructure in the Ali al-Taher heights in the Nabatieh district