Hundreds of thousands of people have packed into a stadium in Beirut and nearby streets for the funeral of Hezbollah’s leader, nearly five months after he was killed in an Israeli airstrike on a southern suburb of the capital.

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.