Funeral for Israeli soldier Hadar Goldin, killed in Gaza fighting

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Dozens of Israelis arrived on Sunday (August 3) to pay respects with the family of Lieutenant Hadar Goldin, who the Israeli army said was killed in the fight with Palestinian militants.

Amid Hamas accusations that Israel had misled the world about the alleged capture of an Israeli soldier, the officer, Lieutenant Hadar Goldin, was buried on Sunday after the military said it recovered remains and he was killed in action.

Goldin's suspected abduction led to the collapse of a U.S.- and U.N.-brokered ceasefire on Friday.

"I don't have a clue where to begin, I don't know how to say good-bye to you for real. I only know how to say good-bye when you're supposed to return, and that's also hard. I cant imagine you now as dead. You are the most lively person I know in this whole world," said Edna, the fiancee of Goldin.

Israeli media, on the 27th day of the fighting, reported that most Israeli troops had pulled out of Gaza. A column