Morning coverage pressed the state to prove its disarmament pledge in Nabatieh, with the army expanding patrols and General Security and State Security following, while the U.S. Embassy declared the south did not belong to militias and war-peace decisions rested with the state. Kataeb questioned what the government had implemented, and reports cited an Israeli message via U.S. envoy Issa and a Netanyahu warning to Aoun to disarm Hezbollah or face escalation.
At Baabda, Aoun told cabinet time had come for the state to return to the south, paired with a ban on property sales in Israeli-occupied zones. By evening attention swung back to the heights, as Israel detonated over 1,100 tons of explosives in Ali al-Taher, claiming destruction of two kilometers of Hezbollah tunnels and completion of its security zone ahead of reported Rome talks.