IM Issue 17 – September 2008
Israel Says Farewell to Regev and Goldwasser: Thousands at Burials of Returned Israeli Soldiers
Thousands of mourners turned out for the burials of two Israeli soldiers returned in a prisoner exchange with Hezbollah, laying to rest the young men whose unknown fate had riveted Israel for two years. The pair’s 2006 capture in a raid by Hezbollah sparked a month long war. Though officials believed the two soldiers were dead, there was no proof until their bodies were returned in black coffins.
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