The British Ambassador to Lebanon, Hamish Cowell, joined Prime Minister Nawaf Salam’s representative Minister Haneen El Sayed, U.N. Women Representative Gielan El Messiri, Canadian Ambassador to Lebanon Gregory Galligan and Lebanese political leaders at a high-level conference to launch a landmark study on women’s political participation within political parties in Lebanon.

The study, conducted by U.N. Women Lebanon in partnership with the Office of the United Nations Special Coordinator for Lebanon (UNSCOL), provides the first comprehensive assessment of women’s roles in eight political parties, examining their participation as members, candidates, and leaders. It also identifies key challenges and opportunities for advancing gender equality within party structures.

Hardline Republican U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham has hoped that Hamas “will say yes” to U.S. President Donald Trump’s proposal to end the conflict in Gaza.

An Israeli drone fired two missiles Wednesday at a car in the southern town of Kafra, killing one person, the National News Agency said.

Despite a November ceasefire that ended over a year of hostilities between Hezbollah and Israel, the latter has kept up regular strikes on Lebanon and still has troops positioned at five border points inside Lebanon.

A number of young men on Wednesday intercepted a UNIFIL patrol as it was conducting a routine patrol on the al-Tuffahiyeh-Srifa road in south Lebanon, the state-run National News Agency reported.

The interception prompted an intervention by Lebanese Army troops who worked on pacifying the situation, NNA added.

State Prosecutor Jamal al-Hajjar on Wednesday issued search and investigations warrants for two people involved in Raouche Rock’s illumination after they refused to appear before interrogators, the state-run National News Agency reported.

Hezbollah supporters have projected images of slain leaders Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah and Sayyed Hashem Safieddine onto the iconic rock in Beirut despite government opposition and the party's lack of official authorization.

A member of Syria’s General Security was killed and two people were wounded when a war remnant rocket exploded on the Lebanese-Syrian border, Al-Jadeed TV reported on Wednesday.

Lebanon’s National News Agency said the blast went off near the Joussiyeh-Qaa border crossing inside Syrian territory, adding that there is a Syrian school nearby.

President Joseph Aoun on Wednesday discussed with Interior Minister Ahmad al-Hajjar the ongoing preparations for the upcoming parliamentary elections, stressing “the need to hold them on time in May.”

Prime Minister Nawaf Salam for his part emphasized “firm commitment to holding timely elections, without any postponement or delay.”

Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea accused Tuesday Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri of obstructing a legislative session that was cancelled this morning due to a lack of quorum.

Geagea said that Berri is responsible for refusing to discuss in Monday and Tuesday's sessions an urgent draft law presented by 67 MPs demanding an amendment to the current electoral law.

The interior and foreign ministries announced Tuesday in a joint statement that registration for expat voting in the 2026 parliamentary elections would begin on October 2 and end on November 20, amid controversy over the expat voting method and fears that the polls might be postponed.

“This declaration is the fruit of continuous cooperation and coordination between the two ministries, with Interior and Municipalities Minister Ahmad al-Hajjar and Foreign and Expats Minister Youssef Rajji working in a near-daily manner on following up on all details related to this national juncture, in order to secure the best administrative and technical conditions for guaranteeing the participation of Lebanese expats in this constitutional juncture,” the statement said.

President Joseph Aoun met Tuesday in Baabda with PM Nawaf Salam and discussed with him the general situations in the country and the outcome of the talks he held in New York during his participation in the U.N. General Assembly meetings, the Presidency said.

“The discussions also tackled the domestic situations and means to address what happened in Raouche,” the Presidency added, in reference to the controversy over Hezbollah’s illumination of the Raouche Rock with the images of its slain leaders in defiance of Salam and Lebanese authorities.