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Israeli soldiers embrace near the northern Israeli town of Menara on the Israel-Lebanon border, after returning from combat operations in southern Lebanon, August 14, 2006. Guns fell silent across southern Lebanon on Monday after a U.N.-brokered truce went into effect to end five weeks of fighting between Israel and Hizbollah that killed more than 1,250 people and wounded thousands. [Reuters]