PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti has decided to cancel her poll campaign for the final phase of the assembly elections in J&K on Sunday to register her protest against the killing of Hasan Nasrallah, the leader of the Lebanese Shiite group Hezbollah.
The Israeli government on Saturday claimed that their precision airstrike killed Hassan Nasrallah in Hezbollah’s Beirut headquarters.
Nasrallah's death was later confirmed by Hezbollah on Saturday after the Israeli military on their X official handle posted, “Hassan Nasrallah will no longer be able to terrorise the world.”
While Western nations and Israel’s supporters celebrated the leader's death, several nations also condemned the move.
Similarly, former chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir, Mehbooba Mufti, announced in her social media post the cancellation of her campaign and said her party stands with the people of Palestine and Lebanon.
“Cancelling my campaign tomorrow in solidarity with the martyrs of Lebanon & Gaza, especially Hassan Nasrallah. We stand with the people of Palestine & Lebanon in this hour of immense grief & exemplary resistance,” she wrote on her X handle.
As the news of Nasrallah's death spread, the Shiite Muslims in J&K also took out processions against the killing of Hezbollah’s leader.
Despite international efforts to establish a long-lasting ceasefire in the ongoing Israel-Hamas conflict. Israel, according to experts, has opened a new front in Lebanon.
World leaders are calling for peace and restraint to prevent an all-out regional war between Israel and its neighbouring states, where tensions are already running high against the Israeli military.
Israel’s relentless airstrikes on Beirut Friday's attack targeting Nasrallah was by far the most intensive bombing campaign after the 2006 Israel-Lebanon war.
Despite the escalations, the Israeli military hopes it will not need to start a ground offensive in Lebanon after Gaza, said Israeli officials on Friday following the airstrikes in Lebanon.
This development is seen as a part of Israel’s broader military objectives to establish a buffer zone inside the Lebanese territory.
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