Lebanese News in Pictures.
Pictures of events in Lebanon in December 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.
Revelers celebrate the New Year at Options night club in Kaslik.
Members of Lebanon's Hizbollah participate in a parade as they slide from a building in front of a huge poster of the late Iranian leader Komeini and Mohamed Ali Khamenei to celebrate the Jerusalem Day held in Beirut December 21, 2000. Lebanon's Hizbollah leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah urged Palestinians on Friday to maintain their 12-week old uprising against Israel,saying violence and not negotiations would enable them to regain their rights .
A rainbow is seen over the seaside at Lebanon's capital Beirut after a combination of heavy rainfall and sunshine December 22, 2000. Passersby rushed to enjoy a walk under the colorful arch.
Lebanese Energy and Water Minister Mohammed Abdel-Hamid Baydoun (C) Syrian Oil Minister Mohammed Maher Jamal (L) and Egyptian Oil Minister Sameh Fahmy (R) sign a $1 billion agreement to build a regional gas pipeline December 15, 2000. The pipeline, which would market Syrian and Egyptian gas, would start near Arish in northern Egypt, run under the Mediterranean to Lebanon and then on to Turkey and Jordan via Syria. In background is Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri.
A worker puts the final touches to a 50 foot high Christmas tree in the Lebanese capital of Beirut on Saturday, Dec. 16, 2000.
Mothers of Lebanese believed jailed in Syria weep during a demonstration to demand the release of all Lebanese prisoners in Syria December 13, 2000 in Beirut. Over 200 Lebanese citizens are still being held illegally in Syrian prisons, many of whom have been there for over 10 years.
A Lebanese army bus carrying prisoners from a Syrian intelligence base in Damascus crosses the Lebanese-Syrian border at Masnaa in eastern Lebanon's Bekaa valley Monday Dec. 11, 2000. Syria on Monday handed over 46 Lebanese and 8 Palestinian prisoners to Lebanese authorities. The transfer followed an agreement reached last week by President Emile Lahoud and Syrian President Bashar Assad. Two buses carrying the freed detainees rolled across the rain-swept border at high speed at 8.15pm, escorted by seven Lebanese Army jeeps, their sirens wailing. Photographers could see passengers handcuffed and blindfolded as the vehicles maneuvered their way past the border checkpoint and down the road to Chtaura.
In front of the Hezbollah flag, left, and Lebanese flag, right. Sheik Naim Kassem, Hezbollah's deputy leader,left, meets with Angelo Gnaedinger, the Europe and Middle East delegate of the International Committee of the Red Cross in Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, Dec. 5, 2000. Hezbollah rejected a new ICRC request to see three Israeli soldiers captured by the groups guerrillas in October.
Lebanese students at the American University of Beirut contribute donations to AIDS patients on Friday Dec. 1, 2000. The campaign on World AIDS Day is aimed at raising awareness against the disease, with over 500 AIDS cases confirmed in Lebanon.
