Lebanese News
in Pictures.
Pictures of events in Lebanon in January 1997.
For photographs of the Israeli withdrawal from south Lebanon click here.
Peacekeepers of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) handover the bodies of three Shi' ite Moslem guerrillas in Tyre January 9, who were killed in a clash with Israeli forces a day earlier. The pro-Syrian Amal Movement claimed responsibility for the attack in which one Israeli soldier was killed and five wounded.
Israeli soldiers lay the flag-covered coffin of 19-year-old army sergeant Rotem Shavit in his grave January 30. Shavit was one of three soldiers killed by a Hizbollah roadside bomb in South Lebanon last night. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called on Syria to stop Hizbollah guerrilla attacks and to restart peace talks suspended for nearly a year.
An Israeli army woman officer (L) supports the arm of David Shavit as he salutes the grave of his 19- year-old son Rotem, one of three soldiers killed by a Hizbollah roadside bomb in South Lebanon, January 30. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called on Syria to stop Hizbollah guerrilla attacks and to restart peace talks suspended for nearly a year.
