Yitzhak Schwartz (R), father of Oshri Schwartz, stands behind his son's coffin as it is lowered into the grave August 29, a day after the 20-year-old Israeli soldier, along with three comrades, was killed by a brush fire which broke out after a firefight with Arab guerillas in south Lebanon. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the Jewish state was far from leaving south Lebanon following a bloody August capped by the brush fire incident in which four young Israeli soldiers burned to death.

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