Israel is holding military funerals for two soldiers returned from Lebanon by the militant Hezbollah movement as part of a prisoner exchange.
The soldiers - Eldad Regev and Ehud Goldwasser - are believed to have died when they were ambushed in 2006.
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Thousands of people have gathered for the funeral of Mr Goldwasser, held at the military cemetery in his hometown of Nahariya in northern Israel.
Mr Regev is to be buried later on Thursday in the military section of the cemetery in Haifa.
Fatal wounds
The Israeli military feels an obligation to bring all its soldiers home. But Wednesday's exchange has been controversial in Israel because it freed convicted murderer Sammi Qantar.
Soldiers wearing purple berets carried Mr Goldwasser's coffin with the Israeli flag stretched across it.
Israeli officials said Mr Goldwasser died of a chest wound from a rocket-propelled grenade when the vehicle he and Mr Regev were in was ambushed, the Jerusalem Post newspaper reported.
Mr Regev was also wounded by the grenade blast, before being shot in the head, the newspaper said.
(BBC)
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