Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri met Wednesday in Ain el-Tineh with the deputy speaker of Iran’s parliament, Hamid Reza Haji Babaei, who was accompanied by a delegation.

“It was an opportunity for us to affirm, through our visit to His Excellency Speaker Nabih Berri, our support and endorsement of Lebanese national unity, solidarity and unity among all segments of the dear Lebanese people,” Babaei said.

The Jounieh Touristic Port was reopened Tuesday evening under the slogan "Jounieh Touristic Port... A Sea of ​​Opportunities," under the patronage of President Joseph Aoun, who was represented by Public Works and Transport Minister Fayez Rasamny, and at the invitation of MP Neemat Frem, as part of a joint initiative between the public and private sectors.

“Three generations are looking forward to this port. The sixties generation remembers the most beautiful times when Lebanon was the Switzerland of the East. There is the eighties generation, who see a different time when we could breathe towards the world only through it. Today's generation will see this port as the new, beautiful time, the new, and joyful Lebanon, a time that will attract tourists instead of ensuring the flight of citizens," Frem said in a speech.

Hamas’ representative in Lebanon Ahmed Abdel Hadi has met at the Grand Serail with the head of the Lebanese-Palestinian Dialogue Committee, Ramez Dimashqiyeh, to discuss the Palestinian situation in Lebanon, particularly the disarmament plan that has started to be implemented in the Beirut and Sour refugee camps.

Al-Akhbar newspaper reported Wednesday that Prime Minister Nawaf Salam had instructed Dimashqiyeh to open channels of communication with Hamas and other factions, with the aim of involving them in the disarmament process, which has so far been limited to the Fatah Movement.

Prime Minister Nawaf Salam revealed in an interview with An-Nahar newspaper that the Arab and international reactions to the September 5 cabinet session that endorsed the army’s weapons monopoly plan were “totally positive, the same as the domestic reactions to the session’s decisions.”

President Joseph Aoun condemned Tuesday the Israeli attack that targeted the residences of several members of Hamas’ political bureau, noting that they were “involved in negotiations to end the Israeli aggression against the Gaza Strip and put an end to the massacres committed by Israel against the Palestinian people.”

The Lebanese Army’s plan “involves its deployment in several towns and points in the South which it had not previously entered, in return for the Israelis’ pullback from these points to the border,” diplomatic sources told Al-Jadeed TV.

Al-Binaa newspaper meanwhile quoted informed sources as saying that “the Americans this month will take practical measures that contribute to lowering tension on the southern border through pressing Israel to withdraw from the occupied points and decrease the number of airstrikes on Lebanon.”

Lebanon's army is set to fully disarm Hezbollah near the border with Israel within three months, Foreign Minister Youssef Rajji told AFP on Tuesday.

In August, the Lebanese government ordered the military to draw up plans to disarm the once-dominant militant group by the end of the year, having come under pressure from the United States and Israeli strikes.

Prime Minister Nawaf Salam noted Tuesday that “Hezbollah granted the government its confidence twice based on its ministerial statement which we are implementing.”

Noting that his relation with Speaker Nabih Berri “has never been severed,” Salam stressed from Ain el-Tineh that “there will be no backing down from the government’s decisions” on weapons monopolization.

Prime Minister Nawaf Salam met Tuesday in Ain el-Tineh with Speaker Nabih Berri.

MTV described the move as a “reconciliation” visit.

A security source told AFP that an Israeli strike Tuesday between the Iqlim al-Kharroub towns of Jiye and Barja targeted and wounded a Hezbollah member, after Lebanese state media reported a raid on a vehicle.

Israel has continued to carry out regular air strikes in Lebanon despite a November truce that sought to end more than a year of hostilities including two months of open war with the Iran-backed Hezbollah group.