Tens of thousands of people gathered on the outskirts of Beirut on Sunday to pay their respects to Hezbollah's slain leader Hassan Nasrallah, nearly five months after he was killed in an Israeli airstrike in a stunning blow to the Iran-backed group.

Tens of thousands of people have gathered in Beirut to attend the funeral of Hezbollah’s leader nearly five months after he was killed in an Israeli airstrike on a southern suburb of the capital

Tens of thousands flocked to mourn the group’s former leader, after it was severely weakened by more than a year of fighting with Israel.