Thousands of supporters of Hezbollah’s slain leader fly into Beirut for funeral

People drive past a billboard with a picture of the late Lebanon’s Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah displayed on Beirut airport highway, Lebanon (Bilal Hussein/AP)

Nearly five months after he was killed in an Israeli airstrike, thousands of supporters of the long-time leader of Lebanon’s militant Hezbollah group have flown into Beirut for Hassan Nasrallah’s funeral on Sunday.

Nasrallah was killed on September 27 when Israel’s air force dropped more than 80 bombs on Hezbollah’s main operations room in southern Beirut.