Thousands turn out to pay their respects to Staff Sergeant Sean Carmeli --- an Israeli soldier killed in Gaza over the weekend.<br/> <br />Twenty-one-year-old Carmeli, a native of Texas with U.S. citizenship, immigrated to Israel at 16. The Army says he was as "lone soldier" --- meaning a soldier without any family in the country.<br/> <br />Many who jammed the streets on Tuesday did so in response to social media calls to honor the sacrifice of the "lone soldier"<br/> <br />Carmeli along with 12 other soldiers from Golani Brigade were killed during battles in the Shajaia neighborhood in Gaza on Sunday.<br/> <br />Their deaths marked Israel's highest number of combat casualties in a single day since 2006.
