Lebanese News
in Pictures.
Pictures of events in Lebanon in October 1999.
For photographs of the Israeli withdrawal from south Lebanon click here.
Leading Lebanese composer and singer Marcel Khalifa performs in September 1998 during a concert held in Beirut. Khalifa has been formally accused by an investigating judge of insulting Islam, a judicial source said on Saturday, October 2, charged with using the chapter of Yusif from the Moslem holy book the Koran, in one of his songs.
Botros Raeha mourns his brother, deacon Shafik Rajha, who was killed in a bomb blast in the Saint Georgious church in the eastern suburbs of Beirut October 3. A bomb exploded in a church on Sunday just a few minutes after a mass was held there, killing one man.
A worker scrubs a tombstone at the Jewish cemetery in the coastal city of Sidon south of Beirut October 17. The cemetery, which is home to around 250 graves, has been neglected and abandoned since the Jews of Sidon left in the mid-1960s.
A pro-Israeli militiaman offers blankets to passengers at the port of Naquora, controlled by Israeli forces and its loyal South Lebanon Army (SLA) militiamen, in the occupation zone in south Lebanon October 31. An Israeli warship on Sunday dragged to a south Lebanon port a boat which was floating in the Mediterranean for 20 days with 73 people on board after its captain disappeared with the passengers' passports and money, eyewitness and passengers said.
