Hezbollah's leader said "resistance" was not over as hundreds of thousands mourned slain chief Hassan Nasrallah Sunday at a Beirut funeral, demonstrating continued support for the group after a devastating war with Israel.

During the funeral, women wailed as a truck carrying the coffins of Nasrallah and his chosen successor Hashem Safieddine -- both killed in Israeli strikes -- slowly moved through the crowd, topped with two black turbans and draped in Hezbollah's yellow flag.

A procession headed towards Nasrallah's burial site near the airport, where a stampede erupted. A live broadcast by Al-Manar TV showed Hezbollah members in military uniform pushing crowds away from the coffin after it was unloaded from the truck.

Safieddine will be interred in his southern hometown of Deir Qanun al-Nahr on Monday.

The massive Israeli strike in September that killed Nasrallah, a charismatic leader who led Hezbollah for more than three decades, dealt a heavy blow to the Iran-backed group.

But Hezbollah, which dominated Lebanon's politics for decades, has long had a support base in the country's Shiite Muslim community.

As the funeral began at the Camille Chamoun Sports City Stadium, Israeli warplanes flew at a low altitude over Beirut in what Defence Minister Israel Katz said........

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