PICTURES OF THE YEAR 2006 Israeli soldiers mourn during the funeral of their comrade Oren Lifshitz in Kibbutz Gazit, near Afula, August 9, 2006. Israel decided on Wednesday to expand its ground offensive in Lebanon, and Hizbollah's leader vowed to turn southern Lebanon into a graveyard for Israeli troops and to unleash more rockets on the city of Haifa.
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