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Lebanese War Finally Laid to Rest

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• July 17: Released prisoner Samir Kantar visits the grave of slain top Hezbollah military commander Imad Mughniyeh, south of Beirut, Lebanon. Five Lebanese prisoners who were set free as part of a prisoners swap between Lebanon and Israel prayed Thursday at the grave of Mughniyeh, pledging to follow in his footsteps and continue fighting Israel.
• July 17: Released prisoners from left, Hussein Suleiman, Khader Zeidan, Samir Kantar, Maher Kourani and Mohammed Surour arrive to pay respects at the grave of slain top Hezbollah military commander Imad Mughniyeh, south of Beirut, Lebanon. Five Lebanese prisoners who were set free as part of a prisoners swap between Lebanon and Israel prayed Thursday at the grave of Mughniyeh, pledging to follow his footsteps.
• July 17: Lebanese people wave the Amal Movement green and Hezbollah yellow flags as tractor-trailers loaded with coffins of Lebanese and Palestinian fighters arrive in the southern coastal town of Zahrani, Lebanon. Eight tractor-trailers loaded with the coffins of nearly 200 fighters are driving from south Lebanon to Beirut a day after a prisoner swap between Israel and Lebanon.
• July 17: Karnit Goldwasser, wife of Israeli soldier Ehud Goldwasser, mourns during his funeral in a military cemetery in Nahariya, northern Israel. Thousands of mourners gathered on Thursday in the northern Israeli town of Nahariya to bury Goldwasser, the first of two soldiers returned in a prisoner exchange with Lebanon's Hezbollah guerrillas.
• July 17: Miki Goldwasser, center right, and Karnit Goldwasser, center left, the mother and the wife of Israeli soldier Ehud Goldwasser walk behind his coffin during his funeral in a military cemetery in Nahariya, northern Israel.
• July 17: The father and brothers of Eldad Regev, one of the two soldiers returned in a prisoner exchange with Lebanon's Hezbollah guerrillas hug each other during his funeral in a military cemetery in Haifa, northern Israel. The prisoner exchange with Hezbollah closed a painful chapter from Israel's 2006 war against the militant group, which began after Lebanese guerrillas kidnapped the two soldiers in a cross-border raid.
• July 17: Israeli soldiers carry the coffin of Eldad Regev.
• July 16: In this photo released by the Israel Defense Forces Israeli military chief Lt. Gen. Gabi Ashkenazi, center, salutes as he stands with Karnit Goldwasser, wife of Israeli soldier Ehud Goldwasser, and other family members next to Goldwasser's coffin. Lebanon's Hezbollah guerrillas handed over two black coffins Wednesday containing the bodies of Goldwasser and Eldad Regev, and Israel freed the killer of a man and his 4-year-old child.