Overnight coverage framed October as the next diplomatic horizon, with Aoun conditioning talks on an agenda enabling real progress and Washington described as launching a new track after Hamada-Lighter consultations.
Attention shifted to the south, where Israeli forces entered Halta, searching homes, bulldozing trees, blowing up a house and detaining a resident, with reports extending the focus to Jabal al-Rihan.
From Paris ahead of the army-support conference, Aoun said Lebanon sought a security agreement with Israel that could prelude peace, pledged state monopoly on arms without internal confrontation, and called for a force to fill the vacuum after UNIFIL's departure.
In Beirut parliament closed two days of questioning in shouting matches between Hezbollah and rivals, then renewed confidence in Salam's government 68 to 12 as Hezbollah MPs walked out, with Salam insisting there was no alternative to negotiation.