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Introductions to the evening news bulletins for Friday, 7/17/2026 * Introduction to the NBN news bulletin: The legislative sessions concluded in Nejmeh Square after two productive days, during which the House of Representatives approved a number of laws that affect people’s lives, and they were distributed among economic, social, living, educational, and media matters, before a quorum for the session took active action upon reaching the discussion of the death penalty law and before discussing the general amnesty law. While the head of the Forces Party, Samir Geagea, bragged about the withdrawal of his representatives from the session, he received a response from the political assistant to the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Representative Ali Hassan Khalil, confirming Geagea’s insistence on adopting the same method every time. His speech is one thing and his practice is another thing. He supports a law in front of the media, then participates in dropping the session that discusses it, raises the banner of institutions, and then resorts to disrupting them. Out of mercy for Lebanon and the Lebanese, Representative Khalil Geagea called for the gamble and mistake not to be repeated. From the Legislative Square to the Southern Square, which today was also not free of Israeli attacks that recorded raids, artillery shelling, sweeps, and bombings, all of which were concentrated in the Nabatieh and Bint Jbeil districts. At the regional level, the Iranian-American confrontation is witnessing a new chapter of escalation after American forces launched violent raids targeting two bridges, an airport, and a railway station, resulting in a number of martyrs and wounded. The Iranian Revolutionary Guard responded to the attacks by targeting American bases in Syria, Jordan, Kuwait, Bahrain, and the Sultanate of Oman, stressing at the same time that it will not allow the export of any oil or gas through the Strait of Hormuz as long as the American attacks continue. In a related context, the Wall Street Journal quoted an American official as saying that targeting the bridges aims to cut off supply lines leading to Bandar Abbas, which Washington says Iran uses to support its operations against ships. For his part, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi accused the occupying entity of leading a massive campaign to mislead the American administration and push it to engage in a war that he described as unwinnable. In another development, US President Donald Trump reopened the US election security file, launching a series of unprecedented accusations against China and announcing his intention to declassify intelligence documents that he said reveal what he described as the largest electoral data hack in history. ======= * MTV Introduction: The virtual tripartite military meeting between Lebanon, Israel, and America was postponed to an unspecified date. The main reason for postponement: completing the preparation of technical files, application plans, and executive procedures related to the experimental areas. Information received from the American capital confirms that the postponement is only technical, and therefore the scheduled meeting can be held at any time. But regardless of the meeting and its date, what is certain is that time is running out for everyone. Implementation of the two experimental zones may begin before the scheduled visit of President Joseph Aoun to Washington, through a possible Israeli withdrawal between Saturday and Sunday. The Lebanese Army anticipated the matter, implementing a deployment plan in some areas of the south, and MTV accompanied it with all its stations and details. The army also conducted intensive patrols and set up checkpoints and observation points in several towns in the districts of Bint Jbeil, Nabatieh and Tyre. In parallel, a remarkable development emerged, represented by the announcement of a European proposal to replace UNIFIL forces with a European Union mission in the south. Will the European proposal find its way into implementation, or will it remain just ink on paper? Politically, the repercussions continue because the House of Representatives failed to reach a formula to approve the amnesty law. The exchange of accusations between parliamentary blocs continues, in continuation of the campaign of insults and insults that characterized the legislative session. The dark reality of Parliament prompted the head of the Lebanese Forces Party, Samir Geagea, to announce that the Forces Bloc is considering submitting a law proposal to shorten the mandate of the current House of Representatives after its inability and failure were proven. Regionally, the pace of war is escalating in the Gulf. It was reported that America was preparing a new target bank in Iran, while the Revolutionary Guard continued its verbal threats, warning that any new attacks targeting Iran would be met with a more crushing response. ======= * Introduction to “Al-Manar” Continuous bombing of homes, schools, and institutions in the south, Zionist bombing and raids, and attacks, and there are those who still want to test with the blood of southerners, their homes, and their villages their delusions of negotiation with the occupation? After the authorities deluded themselves and some of the Lebanese that everything would be resolved once they met with the Israelis, and that the experimental areas in which they returned from Rome as conquerors would change the reality of the situation, the Zionists opened an additional way to evade any commitment, and instead of the meeting via Zoom technology scheduled for today between two military delegations, Israeli and Lebanese, sponsored by the American to determine the mechanisms for touching on the experimental areas, the meeting was postponed through Zionist procrastination and official Lebanese silence. But the Lebanese Army’s move was resounding in the face of misleading the negotiating authority and the occupation forces. Its deployment in Faron, Ghandouria, and Qallawiyah confirmed that those so-called experimental areas are not subject to occupation, while the authority is still subject to the delusions of negotiation, Israeli blackmail, and American bullying, and there is no one to move a finger among the ranks of sovereigns and enthusiasts of freedom and independence. As for the Al-Hawa class in Bint Jbeil, the Al-Mahdi Schools building that was blown up by the occupation forces was a witness to war crimes and the disgrace of negotiations, while the students of these schools, and all the national curriculum schools, and their distinguished graduates in education and the field, are witnesses to the fact that their curricula and principles are stubborn against all aggression and occupation, and the approach of surrender will not be an alternative, even if an authority is established for it on this scale. In the same manner of aggression and escalation in Lebanon, the occupation escalated its aggression against Gaza, committing massacres with its raids and attacks, and Benjamin Netanyahu’s authority had begun preparing its electoral campaign after the dissolution of the Knesset, with escalation in Gaza and Lebanon. Iran has a clear position in the face of the Americans and all their tools in the region, that the logic of aggression will not make the Iranian people retreat or fear. Indeed, the position was clearer today from the Revolutionary Guards, that not a drop of oil or gas will be exported from the region in light of the aggression, while the missiles responding to the American attacks were louder, from Erbil to the American Al-Tanf base on Syrian territory. From the Yemeni land and its human waves came decisive messages to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, announced by the million-man marches that gave their absolute mandate to Mr. Abdul-Malik Badr al-Din al-Houthi to take all decisions to break the siege and open all the airports and ports of dear Yemen. ======= * Introduction to OTV: The regional escalation continues between the United States and Iran, despite the open lines of communication between the capitals to avoid the worst. As for the Lebanese worst, it is in the state of neither war nor peace that the country entered, under an authority that turned to managing the crisis poorly, instead of resolving it in a radical way, in a way that prevents recurrence. The US army’s operations against Iran have continued in recent hours, targeting strategic installations and basic infrastructure, at a time when the capitals concerned with mediation hosted more than one meeting, and their officials continued their contacts to heal the rift in the US-Iranian framework agreement. As for the Lebanese-Israeli framework agreement, its next stop is in Washington, during President Joseph Aoun’s visit to the White House, noting that the parties concerned with its implementation are either obstructing, rejecting, or are basically powerless. Obstruction is a daily Israeli path, whether through military escalation or repeated announcement of refusal to withdraw from Lebanese territory. Rejection is a position that Hezbollah repeats around the clock, not only regarding the Washington Agreement, but also to discuss arms control in general. As for the inability of the Lebanese authority, it does not need much explanation, because all Lebanese are aware of the facts, and even the political forces and figures within the orbit of the ruling structure in Lebanon have become aware that there is a problem, and that the problem is big. Finally, there remains the problem raised by the last minutes of the legislative session, which resulted in an ambiguous position of the forces’ representatives, great anger from the Sunni representatives, and a debate that broke out today between Maarab and Ain al-Tineh, in statements by both Samir Geagea and Ali Hassan Khalil. ======= * Introduction to the LBC: Whenever it gets complicated on the Washington-Tehran line, it gets stuck on the Beirut-Tel Aviv line, and vice versa. On the first line is mutual escalation. On the second line is a postponement of the virtual security meeting, and between the two lines is a wait for the meetings that will take place in Washington. Today, the United States escalated its bombing campaign against Iran, targeting bridges and airports, and Tehran responded by launching attacks on American bases across the Middle East. In a qualitative military development, US Marine forces boarded an oil tanker in the Strait of Hormuz. The escalation reached Syria. Iran said that it had carried out a bombing on Syria, for the first time in this war, targeting what it described as an American base for special forces in Al-Tanf. Syria says that American forces withdrew from that base earlier this year, and a Syrian military source stated that the strike came near the base and did not result in damage or casualties. What is interesting is that Al-Tanf, which was targeted, is the area where the tanker carrying weapons was seized. Is the Iranian bombing of it an Iranian message of fire to Syria? The American-Iranian escalation was offset by a Lebanese-Israeli complication. Postponing the virtual Israeli-Lebanese-American security meeting, emerging from the Rome negotiations, without setting a new date for it. The motives for this postponement were not officially determined, but Israeli media leaks linked it to Tel Aviv’s strict conditions for implementing the clause of withdrawal from the two experimental areas in the “Framework Agreement”, specifically regarding the “international body” that will monitor how the Lebanese army takes over the region after the Israeli withdrawal from it, and disarms Hezbollah. ======= * Introduction to the “new” proximity bombing took place of the remote meeting and the result until now is where you are. At the time when we waited for the American-Israeli-Lebanese zoom meeting to complete the Rome negotiating round and agree on the executive steps for the experimental areas, Israel pre-empted the hypothetical date with a series of raids on Ali Al-Taher, Mifdoun, Al-Mansouri, and Shokin, and bombings that targeted Bint Jbeil, Hadada, and Kafr Benit. In the context of daily tension, the postponement of the tripartite military meeting followed the path of technical reasons and Israeli evasion of setting a timetable for withdrawal from southern Lebanon, and for reasons also related to the executive mechanisms. According to new information, the Lebanese delegation is ready to participate at any time and has prepared the necessary preparations to support the position and determine the Lebanese conditions, noting that the controversial points relate to the direct coordination requested by Israel, which Lebanon rejects and insists that it be carried out under the supervision of CENTCOM, in addition to the Lebanese demand to adhere to a clear timetable for withdrawal. As for the communication schedule on the American-Lebanese line, his observatory records an expected conversation in the next few hours between the US Central Command in Washington and the Lebanese Army Command in Beirut, to discuss determining the time frame for the start of implementation of the experimental zone, which is expected, according to diplomatic sources, to Al-Jadeed within the next two days, and on the cusp of the visit of President Joseph Aoun to Washington. The sources indicate that the American side is committed to pressuring Israel to reach a practical outcome for the Rome negotiating round, which is expected to be completed with a second part during next August if the executive rhythm continues on the path set in the first Rome. To Washington, President Joseph Aoun will head to meet US President Donald Trump next Tuesday, in the presence of a large group of US administration officials and in the absence of Foreign Minister Marco Rubio, who will be outside the country. From the Oval Office, the Lebanese-American white smoke is expected to come out in the form of an explicit commitment and announcement of aid to the Lebanese army and an initiative for reconstruction and revitalizing investments, which reflects American interest in the Lebanese issue and separating its path from other paths that took the path of Islamabad and Geneva. And to the course of the US-Iranian memorandum of understanding, which at the halfway point of the sixty-day deadline turned into a memorandum of misunderstanding, after the daily confrontation entered a more extensive phase with the escalation of the level of American military pressure, the targeting of bridges and vital installations, and the threat of expanding the scope of the strikes. On the other hand, Iran expanded its response, hinting at targeting infrastructure in Arab and Gulf countries, in a scene that reflects the transition of the clash from an exchange of messages to an open test of the limits of force and deterrence. As for the Islamabad understanding, it seems to be oscillating between remaining on the edge of the abyss and sliding into the depths of open confrontation again, while political paths intersect with military signals, and the margins for maneuver narrow. In the end, all roads lead to a strait that is no longer just a sea passage, but has become the compass that draws the chart for navigation movement and the pace of confrontations along open fronts.
