Relatively stable autumn weather dominates Lebanon and the Eastern Mediterranean Basin with temperatures below seasonal averages, until the morning of tomorrow Wednesday, when the region will be affected by a low-pressure system centered southwest of Turkey, leading to unsettled weather with occasional scattered rainfall and lightning and thunder, active winds until next Sunday.
Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam met with U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent at the U.S. Department of the Treasury in Washington, in the presence of Lebanese Finance Minister Yassine Jaber and Lebanon’s Ambassador to the United States, Nada Hamadeh Maalouf.
The Prime Minister of Lebanon, Nawaf Salam, conveyed this Monday to the U.S. Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, the demand to set a "clear timetable" to implement the agreement reached with Israel. He emphasized that the application of the pact involves respecting key commitments, including the withdrawal of Israeli forces from the south of the country and the "centralization" of control of weapons exclusively in the hands of the State throughout Lebanese territory.
Israeli intelligence spent years tracking Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah before his killing in a September 2024 airstrike, including monitoring his movements, habits and security arrangements, Israeli officers involved in planning the operation told Yedioth Ahronoth.
The Lebanese Army has arrested several suspects and seized military-grade weapons, ammunition, drugs and equipment during separate security operations in Beirut and Baalbek, according to a statement issued by the Army Command on Saturday.
Iranian Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei commemorated former Hezbollah Secretary-General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah.