Hezbollah fighters carry one of several coffins of killed comrades during their funeral in Beirut's southern suburb on July 18, 2008. Thousands of people took part in a symbolic funeral for eight Hezbollah fighters killed in the 2006 war with Israel and whose bodies were returned July 16 as part of a prisoner swap that included the return of 199 bodies in total, along with the release of the remaining five Lebanese prisoners in Israel. In exchange, Hezbollah handed over the bodies of two Israeli soldiers captured in a cross-border raid on July 12, 2006, sparking a devastating 34-day war.