The ceremony came after Israel and Lebanon entered into a 10-day ceasefire on Friday announced by US President Donald Trump.

Iran-backed Hezbollah has not provided the total number of its fighters killed since Israel last month launched a massive wave of strikes and a ground invasion of Lebanon.

But it said it would hold funerals for fighters in the town of Kfar Sir on Tuesday, returning "a group of blessed souls to the soil of the south".

People flocked to the centre of the village, which was decorated with Hezbollah flags and pictures of those killed, AFP correspondents saw.

Men, women and children thronged the streets as 14 coffins, covered in Hezbollah flags, entered on an open truck adorned with flowers, before being taken in a procession to the cemetery.

Women stood on balconies and threw rose petals onto the coffins as they passed through the village, parts of which were damaged.

On Monday, AFP footage showed Hezbollah holding a funeral for four fighters in the southern suburbs of the capital Beirut, with chants and gunfire heard from the crowd.

Lebanese authorities say Israeli strikes have killed more than 2,450 people since the war broke out on March 2.

Israel said last Wednesday that it had killed "more than 1,700" Hezbollah fighters during the war, a number AFP cannot verify.