As Hezbollah prepares to hold an elaborate funeral Sunday for its slain leader Hasan Nasrallah, the group he led for more than 30 years is struggling with a looming financial crisis after traditional supply lines of money from Iran have been severed.

Israel's defense minister confirmed that the jets were meant to send "a clear message: Those who threaten to destroy Israel and attack Israel, it will be their end." Newsweek has

Hezbollah supporters demonstrated for the third consecutive day and tried to block the main road leading to the airport to denounce authorities for bowing to Israeli "threats" by prohibiting an Irania

The Lebanese army fired tear gas on Saturday at Hezbollah supporters protesting around Beirut airport against Lebanon blocking an Iranian flight to Beirut this week after the Israeli military accused Tehran of using civilian aircraft to smuggle cash to Beirut to arm the Lebanese group.

The flight suspensions come as Hezbollah supporters had been organizing daily protests around Lebanon’s only civilian airport in protest against a ban on Iranian flights to and from Beirut.

Lebanon barred Iranian airlines Mahan Air and Iran Air from flying to Beirut because they are used to transfer funds to Hezbollah.

Yemeni Information Minister Moammar al-Eryani called on Wednesday for the arrest of a group of leaders from Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthis who he said will attend Lebanese Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah's funeral in Beirut.

Under a truce brokered by Washington in November, Israeli troops were granted 60 days to withdraw from southern Lebanon where they had waged a ground offensive against fighters from Iran-backed Hezbollah since early October.

Iran’s parliamentary and diplomatic leadership concluded a landmark visit to Beirut last week, reinforcing Tehran’s unshakable alliance with Hezbollah and vowing to sustain the Resistance Front against Israeli occupation and Western interference.

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

Iran’s top general says Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah’s funeral showed the commitment of Hezbollah to the causes of the Axis of Resistance.