Lebanese News
in Pictures.
Pictures of events in Lebanon in October 1997.
For photographs of the Israeli withdrawal from south Lebanon click here.
Israeli soldiers evacuate a badly wounded Israeli soldier from southern Lebanon October 8 in an unidentified area along Israel's northern border. Israel Television reported this evening that two Israeli soldiers soldiers were wounded in a roadside bombing in southern Lebanon and that fighting continued in the area.
Israeli soldiers comfort each other after a clash with Hizbollah guerrillas in Israel's south Lebanon occupation zone on October 8. Several soldiers were killed and wounded in the latest flare-up on the frontline.
Israeli soldiers weep at the funeral October 9 of Fabian Kosma, the 20-year-old Israeli soldier killed October 8 in an ambush mounted by the Iranian-backed Hizbollah guerrillas in Lebanon. The ambush occurred near the international border between Israel and Lebanon. Thirty-seven Israeli soldiers nave been killed in Lebanon since January, more than in any full year since the Jewish state carved out its occupation zone north of the border in 1985.
