Thousands At burials of Returned Israeli Soldiers.

Karnit Goldwasser, center, the wife of Israeli soldier Ehud Goldwasser, is comforted during her husbands funeral in a military cemetery in Nahariya, northern Israel, Thursday, July 17, 2008. 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.

Israel's Lopsided Swap Criticized

But military defends bringing every soldier back, no matter what the cost.

Critics of the prisoner exchange with Lebanese guerrillas say that such deals only encourage more hostage-taking, but the military defends bringing soldiers back.