The late leader of Lebanon's Hezbollah group who was killed in an Israeli airstrike days after he took the post was laid to rest in his southern hometown.

Crowds inside Beirut's Sports City await the start of the funeral ceremony for the former Secretary-General of Hezbollah, the martyr Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah.

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.

Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said: "Israeli Air Force aircraft currently flying over Beirut, over the funeral of Hassan Nasrallah, convey a clear message: Those who threaten to destroy Israel and attack Israel, it will be their end. You will specialize in funerals, and we will in victories."

To have people waving flags of designated terrorist organizations with the World Trade Center in the background shows how far down we have come.”