MTV Sources: Speaker of the Parliament, Navia Berri, is making serious efforts to renew the dialogue between President Joseph Aoun and Hezbollah, with a number of mediators involved, including Shiite religious figures. Sources close to Aon say the presidential palace remains open to all Lebanese, but he rejects preconditions for dialogue. Sources at MTV add that a comprehensive national dialogue depends on the results of the bilateral talks between Aoun and Hezbollah.
- The National News Agency reports intermittent artillery shelling on the outskirts of Zotar al-Sharqiya in the Nabatiya district and the wooded outskirts of Ita al-Sha'ab in the Bint Jabeel district.
- Axios reports that Trump intends to continue his plan in Gaza regardless of who takes over the next Israeli government, and that he urged Netanyahu to implement it during a phone call on Thursday. A US official said that reconstruction would not begin until progress in disarming Hamas was coordinated.