The killed Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah according to the acting Lebanese Foreign Minister approved a ceasefire with Israel shortly before his death. “He agreed,” Abdullah Bu Habib told US television channel CNN. Lebanon “fully agreed” after Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri agreed with Hezbollah. “We informed the Americans and the French,” Habib said.
US President Joe Biden and French President Emmanuel Macron called for a 21-day ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah. A larger group of states joined the demand. The three weeks were intended to create space for a diplomatic solution to the conflict and the Gaza war. Hezbollah itself had not publicly declared its alleged approval of the proposal.
The USA and France have announced that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has also agreed to the ceasefire, said Habib. “So we also got Hizbullah’s consent and you know what has happened since then.”
Israel's army killed Nasrallah in a massive airstrike south of Beirut shortly after calling for a ceasefire.
