Soldiers killed in Gaza fighting are buried: ‘You fought for Israel until the last drop of your blood’

Funerals are held for some of the 14 troops killed in heavy fighting in Gaza over the weekend.

Sgt. First Class (res.) Elyassaf Shoshan, 23, is buried at Jerusalem’s Mount Herzl cemetery.

Relative Asher Shoshan eulogizes the fallen soldier: “You are not the salt of the earth, you are the earth.”

“You are the sunset, you are the joy, you are the light, the compassion, the love,” he says, according to the Walla news site.

Cpt. Oshri Moshe Butzhak, 22, is laid to rest in Haifa.

“You fought for the Land of Israel until the last drop of your blood,” his mother says. “Now that you are close to God, ask him for victory for the people of Israel with as little pain as possible.”

His father says Oshri had asked for his organs to be donated if he died, but that due to the nature of his injuries, only his corneas were viable.

Butzhak was due to marry his fiancee Ravid in six months.