The state funeral for former Israeli president Shimon Peres is underway in Jerusalem. Now let's go live to Mount Herzl Cemetery where he will be buried alongside other former leaders of the country.

Mourners have begun their procession to the burial site. Some 70 world leaders and dignitaries including U.S. President Barack Obama have gathered in the city to commemorate Peres, for whose pursuit of an elusive peace deal with the Palestinians won international praise.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is also attending the burial. Peres, who died on Wednesday aged 93, jointly won a Nobel Prize for his peace efforts with the Palestinians in the 1990s.

The amount of world leaders present illustrates the respect Peres gained over the years in his transformation from hawk to committed peace advocate.

An estimated 50,000 people filed past his coffin as it lay in state outside parliament in Jerusalem.

Peres will be buried in a Jewish religious ceremony, in a plot between two former prime ministers, Yitzhak Rabin and Yitzhak Shamir.

Rabin was assassinated by an ultranationalist Israeli in 1995 over the interim peace deals that he and Peres reached with the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat.