Did Nasrallah agree to a ceasefire with Hezbollah before his assassination?

Lebanese Foreign Minister Abdallah Bou Habib announced Thursday that Hezbollah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah had agreed to a “full ceasefire” shortly before he was assassinated by Israel last week.

In an interview with the American broadcaster PBSBou Habib said that Nasrallah had agreed to a ceasefire shortly before his assassination, adding that Lebanese officials had informed American and French mediators of the government's agreement to a ceasefire.

Bou Habib also said that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was aware of the agreement and had also agreed to a ceasefire.

“He (Nasrallah) agreed, he agreed (to the ceasefire),” Habib said.

“The Lebanese government agreed to a ceasefire after consultation with Hezbollah through spokesman Nabih Berri, and we informed the Americans and the French [of this]” he said.

Bou Habib also said that US and French representatives had informed them that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had also agreed to the deal.

The ceasefire agreement was pushed forward by the US, France and other Arab states following a meeting between US President Joe Biden and his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron at the UN General Assembly on September 25 in New York.

It had agreed to a 21-day ceasefire in the fighting, during which negotiations would work toward a ceasefire.

Netanyahu and other far-right government ministers immediately rejected the proposal, and a day later the Israeli prime minister ordered the Israeli military to continue “the fight with full force.”

Nasrallah was assassinated on September 28 in an Israeli airstrike on the southern suburbs of Beirut.

He was reportedly in a bunker in the suburb of Dahiyeh when it was hit by Israeli bombs.

On October 1, Israel launched a “limited” ground invasion of Lebanon, killing at least eight of its soldiers after direct fighting with Hezbollah fighters in southern Lebanon.

Israel has continued to carry out attacks across Lebanon on so-called “Hezbollah targets.” Bombings and cross-border attacks since October 8 have killed more than 1,928 people in Lebanon and injured at least 9,290 others.