The latest: Hashem Safi al-Din, a senior Hezbollah leader and nephew of Hassan Nasrallah, was killed in an Israeli attack on Beirut, according to Axios, according to NTB.
Hezbollah has not yet appointed a new leader following Nasrallah's killing on Friday last week, but it is believed that his nephew Hashem Safi al-Din, who was responsible for Hezbollah's political operations, will take over the leadership position.
– Yes to a ceasefire
It is Lebanese Foreign Minister Abdullah Bou Habib who claims that Nasrallah agreed to a temporary 21-day ceasefire a few days before his killing.
This is what the Lebanese Foreign Minister does CNN.
International actors have been working for months to reach a ceasefire between Hezbollah and Israel.
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– It was known
Most recently, during the United Nations General Assembly last week, President Joe Biden and French President Emmanuel Macron called for a ceasefire between the two parties.
Foreign Minister Habib told CNN that the Lebanese government fully agreed, but the Speaker of the Lebanese National Assembly, Nabih Berri, must consult with Hezbollah.
Then he must have gotten a yes.
Nasrallah agreed to that. He agreed to it, Habib says in an interview with CNN's Christiane Amanpour that aired Wednesday.
The Foreign Minister also claims that the United States and France, who are responsible for the ceasefire negotiations, were informed of this.
He added that representatives of the United States and France must have informed Lebanon that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu also agreed to the ceasefire agreement. According to Habib, this agreement was signed by both Biden and Macron. Netanyahu denies this.
– They told us that Netanyahu agreed to this. Then we were also able to get yes from Hezbollah. He told a CNN reporter: So you know what happened.
– The worst scenario
Order for 21 days
According to the Foreign Minister, US envoy Amos Hochstein is scheduled to travel to Lebanon to work on the agreement.
The Israeli army announced last Saturday that Hezbollah's Supreme Leader, Hassan Nasrallah, was killed in an air strike on Beirut on Friday evening.
Shortly thereafter, Hezbollah also confirmed the death.
The day before the deadly attack, the European Union and a number of countries, including the United States and France, issued a joint statement calling for a 21-day ceasefire.
It states that this is being done “to give diplomacy a chance to succeed and avoid further cross-border escalation.”
European Union foreign affairs chief Josep Borrell said on the same night Nasrallah was killed that no country, not even the United States, seemed able to convince Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to calm the conflict in the Middle East.
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