Hassan Nasrallah was killed in an Israeli strike in Lebanon on September 27
Beirut:
Former Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had agreed to a ceasefire shortly earlier than he was killed in an air strike in Beirut final week, Lebanon Overseas Minister Abdallah Bou Habib mentioned as we speak. Chatting with an American public broadcaster, Bou Habib mentioned that in addition they knowledgeable the US and French representatives in regards to the ceasefire choice.
Hassan Nasrallah was in a bunker within the southern suburb of Dahiyeh when it was hit by Israeli bombs on September 27. Whereas Hezbollah’s assertion confirming Nasrallah’s dying didn’t say how precisely he was killed, Reuters mentioned his physique had no direct wounds and that it appeared the reason for dying was blunt trauma from the power of the blast.
“He (Nasrallah) agreed, he agreed (to the ceasefire),” Bou Habib instructed PBS, including that Lebanon had totally consented to the ceasefire after consulting with Hezbollah, and communicated this to the US and France.
“The Lebanese Home Speaker, Mr Nabih Berri, consulted with Hezbollah and we knowledgeable the People and the French in regards to the settlement. They instructed us that [Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu additionally agreed to the assertion issued by each presidents,” he mentioned.
America, France, and different allies unveiled a 21-day ceasefire on September 25, after President Joe Biden and his French counterpart, Emmanuel Macron, met on the sidelines of the UN Normal Meeting in New York. However Netanyahu had rejected the ceasefire proposal a day later, ordering the navy to proceed “combating with full power”.
Iran’s Supreme Chief Warned Hezbollah Chief To Flee
Iran’s Supreme Chief Ayatollah Ali Khamenei had warned Nasrallah to flee Lebanon days earlier than he was killed within the Israeli strike, Reuters reported on Wednesday.
After the Hezbollah members had been attacked with pagers on September 17, Khamenei had despatched a message with an envoy to beseech Nasrallah to go away for Iran, citing intelligence reviews that instructed Israel had operatives inside Hezbollah and was planning to kill him, one of many sources, a senior Iranian official, instructed Reuters.
The messenger, the official mentioned, was a senior Iranian Revolutionary Guards commander, Brigadier Normal Abbas Nilforoushan, who was additionally killed with Nasrallah within the bunker.
Israel on Tuesday started what it labelled as a “restricted” floor incursion in opposition to Hezbollah in southern Lebanon.
Over 1,900 individuals have up to now been killed and about 9,000 injured in Lebanon since Hezbollah engaged in cross-border hearth with Israel after Hamas attacked Israeli cities on October 7 final yr, triggering a conflict in Gaza as properly.
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