A crowd of tens of thousands gathered at a stadium in Beirut to participate in the funeral ceremony for Hezbollah’s former leader. Almost five months after his death, which occurred due to an Israeli airstrike on a suburb in southern Beirut, the funeral took place. Hassan Nasrallah, who led Hezbollah for over three decades and was one of its founding members, was killed in September of the previous year when the Israeli air force targeted the group’s main operations room with over 80 bombs.

Mourners dressed in black and carrying Nasrallah portraits or Hezbollah flags flocked to the mass funeral, which had been postponed due to security concerns. The biting cold did not deter the men, women, and children from Lebanon and beyond who walked to the ceremony site.

Portraits of Nasrallah and Hashem Safieddine, his chosen successor who also died in an Israeli airstrike before assuming the position, were displayed across south Beirut. They had been temporarily buried in secret locations.

Ali Daamoush, a senior Hezbollah official, stated that around 800 personalities from 65 countries would attend the funeral, along with thousands of individuals and activists from around the world.

Nasrallah will be buried in Beirut, while Safieddine’s burial will take place in his hometown in southern Lebanon. Hezbollah set up giant screens along the airport road and outside the stadium for those who couldn’t attend the ceremony inside. Main roads have been closed, and flights to and from Beirut airport have been halted for four hours. The Lebanese army and police are on high alert, and the use of drones in Beirut and its suburbs during the day has been banned.

Before the funeral commenced, the Israeli military launched a series of attacks in southern Lebanon.

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