Sahar, the girlfriend of Israeli soldier Dor Nini mourns next to his fresh grave during his funeral in a cemetery at Shtulim village near Ashdod
Sahar, (C) the girlfriend of Israeli soldier Dor Nini mourns next to his fresh grave during his funeral in a cemetery at Shtulim village near Ashdod January 29, 2015. Israel and Hezbollah signalled on Thursday their rare flare-up in fighting across the Israel-Lebanon border was over, after the Lebanese guerrillas killed two Israeli troops, one of them Nini, in retaliation for a deadly air strike in Syria last week. REUTERS/Nir Elias (ISRAEL - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST)
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