And in Lebanon today, thousands turned out for the funeral for Hassan Nasrallah, the former

longtime leader of Hezbollah.

He was killed nearly five months ago in the war with Israel.

The funeral came just days after Israel failed to meet a second deadline to withdraw from

southern Lebanon as part of a fragile ceasefire deal that brought the latest conflict to an end.

Special correspondent Simona Fultin reports from Beirut.

It's the end of an era for Lebanon.

Hassan Nasrallah was the country's most powerful man.

His group has Bala, its strongest political and military force.

Labelled a terrorist by Israel, Nasrallah is revered by Lebanon's Shiite community who gathered

in their thousands to pay their respects.

Russia Akush traveled to the capital from her village in southern Lebanon.

We will keep crying over him for a long time. But this person, he taught us what it means to stand up for ourselves,

to defend our land and to defend our rights.

Nasrallah was killed on September 27th, when Israel pummeled Beirut's suburbs

with a barrage of bunker-busting bombs supplied by the United States.

Despite his demise, his supporters have remained defiant.

They dropped 84 tons on him, with American help, with American financing so that it breaks us

and so that we're afraid of Israel.

But all these people here are not afraid of Israel.

They'll likely fly their jets soon so they scare the people.

But we are not afraid, even if they drop bombs on us.

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