The day's dominant story was Trump's reported demand that Netanyahu withdraw Israeli forces from Lebanon and Syria, breaking in the evening via Axios and dominating Kataeb, MTV, and Addiyar. This overshadowed the Rome negotiations, which began in the morning with Lebanon presenting an army deployment plan and Israel signaling readiness to withdraw from two pilot zones. By afternoon, the talks' first day concluded without breakthroughs. Meanwhile, US-Iran hostilities escalated: overnight IRGC strikes on US bases in Bahrain and Jordan, followed by Trump's threat to destroy Iran's nuclear facility and Netanyahu's vow of a decisive strike. Berri rejected pilot zones, demanding tangible achievements. The day saw a shift from diplomatic process to external pressure, with Trump's intervention reframing the Lebanon file as a US-Israeli bilateral matter.