Lebanese News
in Pictures.
Pictures of events in Lebanon in January 2000.
For photographs of the Israeli withdrawal from south Lebanon click here.
An International Red Cross convoy drives out of the Israeli security zone, as prisoners raise hands with "V" for victory signs following their release from the al-Khiam prison upon their arrival at the village of Kfartibnit in south Lebanon January 13. The pro-Israeli South Lebanon Army (SLA) militia released 25 detainees from the notorious Khiam prison inside Israel's south Lebanon occupation zone.
A pro-Israeli militiaman Asad Turmos is kissed by his mother after he and Najem Elias were handed over to relatives in a Hizbollah office in the southern suburbs of Beirut January 14. Hizbollah guerrillas freed the two Israeli-backed South Lebanon Army militiamen on Friday, a day after Israel and its South Lebanon Army militia released 27 Lebanese prisoners. Najem Elias, 19, and Asad Turmos, 30, were captured more than six months ago in Israeli-occupied south Lebanon.
Two Lebanese villagers from Aramta inspect January 14 ammunition left behind by the pro-Israeli militiamen at the former checkpoint of Kfarhouna village which had been controlled by the South Lebanese Army militiamen (SLA). Pro-Israeli militiamen were withdrawn from the position yesterday.
Lebanese policemen and civilians raise the coffin of the former prime minister Saeb Salam as a woman mouns him during a funeral January 22. Salam, the major figure of Lebanon' s independence era, died on January 21 at the age of 95.
An Israeli soldier from the elite Golani Brigade fights back tears as he and other mourners stand under umbrellas in strong rain January 27 while attending the funeral of Staff Sargeant Rafael Zangwill on Mount Herzl Military Cemetery. Zangwill, 24, immigrated alone from Latvia five years ago and is the first Israeli soldier to be killed in Southern Lebanon by Hizbollah forces since last August.
Colonel Akl Hashem, one of the top commaders of the SLA, was assasinated January 30 by a Hizbollah in a bomb attack outside his home in Bint Jbeil.
