The leader of the Lebanese Shiite group Hezbollah, Hasan Nasrallah, had accepted a 21-day ceasefire before being killed by Israel. Lebanon had already informed United States and France, who presented the truce proposal.
This has been confirmed the Lebanese Minister of Foreign Affairs, Abdallah Bou Habib in youIn a CNN interview in which, when asked if Nasrallah had agreed to the temporary truce before being assassinated, he responded emphatically: “He (Nasrallah) agreed, agreed.”
“We were in complete agreement. Lebanon agreed to a ceasefire but by consulting Hezbollah. The speaker (of the Lebanese Parliament), Nabih Berri, consulted with Hezbollah and we informed the Americans and the French of what had happened. And they told us that Mr. Netanyahu also agreed with the statement published by the two presidents – in reference to Joe Biden and Emmanuel Macron -“, he said.
The temporary ceasefire was presented by the US president, his French counterpart and other allies at the UN General Assembly last week.
Even after the communication from the Lebanese government to the two countries, the senior adviser to the White House, Amos Hochstein, He was preparing to go to Lebanon to negotiate the ceasefire during these three weeks of temporary truce, Habib continued.
“They told us that Mr. Netanyahu agreed to this, then we also got the agreement from Hezbollah and you know what happened since then,” the Lebanese minister said, referring to Nasrallah’s assassination.
Until now, neither Israel nor Hezbollah have spoken taking into account this information.
Killed in an air raid
Nasrallah was killed last Friday in an Israeli airstrike in the southern Beirut suburb known as Dahye, part of an unprecedented Israeli bombing campaign that has killed nearly 2,000 people and displaced 1 .2 million people.
Shortly after, Israel launched a ground invasion into southern Lebanon to which Iran has already responded by launching more than 200 ballistic missiles against Israeli soil.
The Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahufrom his New York hotel, gave the green light to the attack on Nasrallah moments before delivering his speech. speech at the United Nations General Assembly.
The clergyman Hassan Nasrallah He had been at the head of the Lebanese Shiite group for three decades, a thorn in Israel’s side since its creation in 1982. But since October 8, the day the Israeli offensive in Gaza began in response to the terrorist attacks in Hamas – its formation has engaged in intense cross-attacks with the Israeli state.
