Lebanon bids farewell to the Nasrallah era

For a moment, tens of thousands of people in a packed Beirut stadium let out a unified cry.

The coffins of Hassan Nasrallah and Hachem Safieddine, wrapped in Hezbollah's arresting yellow flag, had appeared.

Men and women broke down in tears, scrambling over each other to spy a better view of the solemn procession.

Not even Israeli fighter jets, who flew menacingly at low altitudes over the funeral, could break the spell. "Death to Israel," people screamed in unison.

Above all was the sound of one woman, waving a flag bearing Nasrallah's face.

"Sayyed, o Sayyed," she cried, using the honorific for black-turbaned Shia scholars descended from the Prophet, like Hezbollah's slain secretary general.

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