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Hezbollah Chief Hassan Nasrallah Agreed To Ceasefire Before Being Killed: Lebanon Minister

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 before he was killed in an air strike in Beirut last week, Lebanon Foreign Minister Abdallah Bou Habib said today. Speaking to an American public broadcaster, Bou Habib said that they also informed the US and French representatives about the ceasefire decision. Hassan Nasrallah was in a bunker in the southern suburb of Dahiyeh when it was hit by Israeli bombs on September 27. While Hezbollah’s statement confirming Nasrallah’s death did not say how exactly he was killed, Reuters said his body had no direct wounds and that it appeared the cause of death was blunt trauma from the force of the blast. “He (Nasrallah) agreed, he agreed (to the ceasefire),” Bou Habib told PBS, adding that Lebanon had fully consented to the ceasefire after consulting with Hezbollah, and communicated this to the US and France. “The Lebanese House Speaker, Mr Nabih Berri, consulted …