Nasrallah, Netanyahu agreed to a truce before Israel assassinated Hezbollah leader: Report

Lebanese Foreign Minister Abdallah Bou Habib said in an interview with CNN that both Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had agreed to a temporary truce just before Israel killed Nasrallah in a massive air strike in Beirut.

"[The US] also agreed on the Biden-Macron statement that calls for the implementation of a 21-day ceasefire," Bou Habib told CNN's Christine Amanpour.

"And they told us that Mr Netanyahu agreed on this. And so we also got the agreement of Hezbollah on that. You know what has happened since then," he added.

Bou Habib, who is currently in New York following September's UN General Assembly, said the agreement to the truce was confirmed before Israel launched a massive air strike on Beirut's southern suburbs, killing Nasrallah and wiping out entire buildings.

Before Israel killed Nasrallah, the US and France said last Wednesday they were releasing a statement urging for a 21-day temporary truce between Hezbollah and Israel, after a week of Israel launching escalatory air strikes on Lebanon.

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