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.

Lebanese state media said that an Israeli air strike on Tuesday killed at least two people in Janta in the country's east, where the military said it targeted Hezbollah militants.

"An enemy drone carried out an air strike... near the eastern Lebanon mountain range, killing two people and wounding two" others, said the state-run National News Agency.

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.

Residents of southern Lebanon have been gradually returning to their villages to find their homes heavily damaged.

As they scour what remains, they are discovering that the battle-scarred walls of their houses served as a canvas for Israeli soldiers.