Lebanese News in Pictures.
Pictures of events in Lebanon in November 2000.
This page is updated frequently. For more pictures please visit the photographic archive.
For photographs of the Israeli withdrawal from south Lebanon click here.
For photographs of the Lebanese Independence day parade click here.
Decorations to mark Christmas and New Year are seen Tuesday Nov. 28, 2000 in Beirut's commercial Hamra thouroughfare.
Israeli soldiers stand by at their position at the Sheik Abbad hill in the Lebanese-Israeli border, Sunday Nov. 26, 2000. Israeli warplanes struck at southern Lebanon for the first time in six months after Hezbollah guerrillas detonated a roadside bomb near an Israeli patrol in a disputed border area.
Students wave Lebanese flags during a sit-in at the Museum area in Beirut Tuesday Nov. 21, 2000. About 5,000 university students demonstrated to demand the withdrawal of 35,000 Syrian troops from Lebanon. Chanting anti-Syria slogans, the students called for the Lebanese army to reassert government authority over all the country following the Israeli withdrawal from south Lebanon in May.
Lebanese students at a rally held in front of the landmark Museum intersection in Beirut November 21, 2000. Around 5,000 students held a large demonstration demanding the withdrawal of Syrian occupation forces from Lebanon on Tuesday, further testing the nerves of Damascus, which is facing increasing demands to pull out its 35,000 troops and end the management of Lebanese politics.
Two Israeli soldiers in an armored personnel carrier patrol the border with Lebanon on Sunday, Nov. 19, 2000, near the Lebanese village of Addaysseh. A Hezbollah supporter was wounded by Israeli gunfire after two Israeli soldiers were injured by stones thrown by Lebanese civilians.
A member of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's mainstream Fatah faction trains Palestinian children on using weapons at the Ein el-Hilweh refugee camp on the outskirts of the southern Lebanese port city of Sidon Friday Nov. 17, 2000. Arafat's Fatah faction has declared a state of alert among its ranks in refugee camps amid escalating clashes between Israel and Palestinians.
United Nations Swedish engineers watch a controlled explosion of destroyed landmines on the Lebanese Israeli border among the foothills of Mount Hermoun, near the Israeli Motella settlement November 14, 2000. The U.N. unit began clearing mines from the roads leading to their new positions in south Lebanon, part of a big redeployment into forward areas following the Israeli pull out from Lebanese territory last May.
Lebanese civil defense men carry the body of a Lebanese man who was killed in a land mine explosion in southern Lebanon Sunday Nov. 12 2000. Another Lebanese man was killed and two others were wounded when the mine went off as the four were driving on a rugged road near the village of Jbaa in south Lebanon. The car overturned by the impact of the explosion.
Civil defense workers and Red Cross volunteers carry Rana Jumaa, a teenage girl who was rescued from the rubble of a collapsed apartment building in Naameh, Lebanon, Saturday, Nov. 11, 2000. Two four-story apartment buildings collapsed on sleeping residents early Saturday, killing six people and injuring about 27.
Rescuers look through the rubble after two apartment buildings collapsed Saturday, Nov. 11, 2000, in Naameh, Lebanon, south of Beirut. Two four-story apartment buildings collapsed on sleeping residents early Saturday, killing at six people and injuring about 27.
Sen. Charles Schumer, Dem N.Y., Nov. 7, 2000 in New York, addresses the media and families of three Israeli soldiers captured by Hezbollah in Lebanon on Oct. 7, while Qasem Suaed, left, and his wife Khadra, parents of one of the soldiers, listen. There is still no information regarding the whereabouts or condition of the three soldiers, Sgt. Adi Avitan, Staff Sgt. Avraham Binyamin and Staff Sgt. Omer Suaed.
Lebanon's Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri speaks during an interview in his office in Beirut October 24, 2000. The new Lebanese government of Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri won a vote of confidence Monday, November 6, 2000 with 95 MPs in the 128-member parliament giving their approval, 16 abstensions and seven negative votes among the deputies present.
A group of Hezbollah supporters throw stones across Fatima Gate on the Lebanese-Israeli border Sunday, Nov. 5, 2000. The demonstrators had come to participate in a ceremony during which a Hezbollah official announced that the road along the border would be renamed "Martyr Abdallah Atwi," after a suicide bomber who blew himself up in front of a group of Israeli soldiers at the gate in 1988.
Egyptian actor, Mohammed Sobhi, throws stones across Fatima Gate on the Lebanon-Israeli border near the southern Lebanese village of Kfar Kila Sunday, Nov. 5, 2000. Israeli soldiers fired warning shots into the air to disperse supporters of Hezbollah who were throwing stones at them from behind the border fence.
Palestinian women shout anti-Israel slogans while one of them waves a toy gun during a sit-in in front of the United Nations offices in Beirut, Friday, Nov. 3, 2000. Some 75 school children and women staged the demonstration to show their support for Arab children in the Palestinian territories.
