Lebanese News
in Pictures.
Pictures of events in Lebanon in November 1998.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gives a "thumbs up" while speaking to Israeli troops at an army outpost near the border with Lebanon on December 2. Netanyahu and other cabinet ministers paid a visit following the killing of seven soldiers over a 10-day period by Hizbollah guerrillas in Lebanon.
Lebanon's new cabinet pose for photographs at the presidential palace in Baabda December 5. (R-L) Vocational Education and Culture Minister Mohammed Youssef Baydoun, Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Selim al-Hoss, President Emile Lahoud, Parliament House Speaker Nabih Berry, and Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister Michel al-Murr. Lebanon's new Prime Minister Selim al-Hoss met key ministers on Saturday to draft a task list for his government to carry out economic and administrative reforms.
Lebanese President Emile Lahoud (L) shakes hands with U.S. Secretary of Health and Human services Donna Shalala (R) during their meeting at the presidential palace in Baabda December 7. Shlalal said after meeting that the U.S. administration saw a lot of potential in Lebanon and that it wanted to improve its ties with Lebanon's new government.
Radical Palestinian guerrillas burn American and Israeli flags in a protest at Ain al-Hilweh refugees camp in the port-city of Sidon in south Lebanon, December 14. Lebanon' s Palestinians protested on Monday against cancelling a clause of the PLO charter, which calls for Israel's destruction, and slammed U.S. President Bill Clinton's visit to Gaza strip.
Brigadier Michel Sleiman, Lebanon's new government appointed Sleiman was appointed December 21 as head of the country's 65,000-strong army. Information Minister Anwar Khalil made the announcement after a cabinet meeting. He also said the government had appointed Colonel Raymond Azar as director of the Lebanese intelligence in addition to other new security chiefs.
A Pro-Iranian Hizbollah militant carries a child's body during a mass funeral in the eastern city of Baalbeck, December 23. Salvos of Katyusha rockets slammed into northern Israel this morning after Israeli Air Force jets attacked in Lebanon's Baaka Valley yesterday and mistakenly hit a home where a woman and six of her seven children were killed in a raid on suspected Hizbollah guerrilla positions. Hizbollah guerrilla group said on Wednesday it had launched the Katyusha rockets in retaliation for Tuesday's killing.
An Israeli holds a large fragment of a Katyusha rocket as he kneels at the destroyed remains of a workshop in northern Israel, December 23. Salvos of Katyusha rockets slammed into northern Israel this morning causing extensive damge after Israeli Air Force jets attacked in Lebanon's Baaka Valley yesterday and mistakenly hit a home where a woman and six of her seven children were killed in a raid on suspected Hizbollah guerrilla positions. One Israeli was moderately hurt and others lightly injured this morning.
