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Lebanese FM: Nasrallah Agreed to Temporary Ceasefire Days Before Assassination

A Hezbollah supporter holds a placard with Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah next to the rubble of a completely destroyed building in Dahiyeh, a southern suburb controlled by Hezbollah, Beirut, Lebanon, 02 October 2024. EPA/JOAO RELVAS
A Hezbollah supporter holds a placard with Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah next to the rubble of a completely destroyed building in Dahiyeh, a southern suburb controlled by Hezbollah, Beirut, Lebanon, 02 October 2024. EPA/JOAO RELVAS
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Lebanese FM: Nasrallah Agreed to Temporary Ceasefire Days Before Assassination

A Hezbollah supporter holds a placard with Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah next to the rubble of a completely destroyed building in Dahiyeh, a southern suburb controlled by Hezbollah, Beirut, Lebanon, 02 October 2024. EPA/JOAO RELVAS
A Hezbollah supporter holds a placard with Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah next to the rubble of a completely destroyed building in Dahiyeh, a southern suburb controlled by Hezbollah, Beirut, Lebanon, 02 October 2024. EPA/JOAO RELVAS

Caretaker Lebanese Foreign Minister Abdallah Bou Habib has said that Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah had agreed to a 21-day ceasefire just days before he was assassinated by Israel.

The temporary ceasefire was called for by US President Joe Biden, his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron and other allies during last week’s UN General Assembly.

“He [Nasrallah] agreed, he agreed,” Habib told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour in an interview aired on Wednesday.

“We agreed completely. Lebanon agreed to a ceasefire but consulting with Hezbollah. The (Lebanese Parliament) Speaker Mr. Nabih Berri consulted with Hezbollah and we informed the Americans and the French what happened. And they told us that Mr. (Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin) Netanyahu also agreed on the statement that was issued by both presidents (Biden and Macron.)”

White House senior adviser Amos Hochstein was then set to go to Lebanon to negotiate the ceasefire, Habib continued.

“They told us that Mr. Netanyahu agreed on this and so we also got the agreement of Hezbollah on that and you know what happened since then,” Habib continued.

Nasrallah was killed in an Israeli airstrike on Friday in the southern suburbs of Beirut.

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Lebanese Red Cross Says Israeli Strike Killed 4 of its Medics, Lebanese Soldier

Smoke billows after Israeli Air Force airstrikes in southern Lebanon villages, amid cross-border hostilities between Hezbollah and Israel, as seen from Sasa, northern Israel, October 3, 2024. REUTERS/Jim Urquhart
Smoke billows after Israeli Air Force airstrikes in southern Lebanon villages, amid cross-border hostilities between Hezbollah and Israel, as seen from Sasa, northern Israel, October 3, 2024. REUTERS/Jim Urquhart
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Lebanese Red Cross Says Israeli Strike Killed 4 of its Medics, Lebanese Soldier

Smoke billows after Israeli Air Force airstrikes in southern Lebanon villages, amid cross-border hostilities between Hezbollah and Israel, as seen from Sasa, northern Israel, October 3, 2024. REUTERS/Jim Urquhart
Smoke billows after Israeli Air Force airstrikes in southern Lebanon villages, amid cross-border hostilities between Hezbollah and Israel, as seen from Sasa, northern Israel, October 3, 2024. REUTERS/Jim Urquhart

The Lebanese Red Cross said Thursday that an Israeli strike killed four of its paramedics and a Lebanese army soldier as they were evacuating wounded people from the south.

It said the convoy near the village of Taybeh, which was accompanied by Lebanese troops, was targeted despite coordinating its movements with UN peacekeepers.

An escalation in the conflict between Israel and Hezbollah over the past two weeks has led to clashes between the two sides inside Lebanon.

Hezbollah began firing rockets into Israel at the start of the Gaza war in support of Hamas, causing the evacuation of tens of thousands of residents whom Israel says need to return home.

In Lebanon, nearly 1,900 people have been killed and more than 9,000 wounded in Lebanon in nearly a year of cross-border fighting, with most of the deaths occurring in the past two weeks, according to Lebanese government statistics.

More than a million Lebanese have been forced to flee their homes.

In a separate development, the Israeli military ordered the evacuation of villages and towns in southern Lebanon that are north of a United Nations-declared buffer zone established after the 2006 war. The warnings issued Thursday signaled a possible broadening of Israel’s incursion into southern Lebanon, which until now has been confined to areas close to the border.

At least eight Israeli soldiers were killed in clashes with Hezbollah in southern Lebanon, where Israel announced the start of what it says is a limited ground incursion earlier this week.