Large numbers of Hezbollah followers flocked to Beirut's largest sports stadium on Sunday to attend a mass funeral of their slain leader Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah, nearly five months after he was assassinated.

A funeral was held for former Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, who was killed in an Israeli airstrike in Beirut last September. During the service, Israeli jets flew overhead as the IDF also conducted strikes in southern and eastern parts of the Lebanon.

Mourners dressed in black, some waving Hezbollah flags or clutching portraits of the group's slain leader Hassan Nasrallah, gathered in their thousands to attend his funeral on Sunday in a stadium on the outskirts of Beirut.