Lebanese News
in Pictures.
Pictures of events in Lebanon in January 1999.
For photographs of the Israeli withdrawal from south Lebanon click here.
Israeli protesters of the "Four Mother" group, fighting for Israel's withdrawal from its south Lebanon occupation zone, demonstrate outside the Israeli Defense Ministry in Tel Aviv, January 8. The protesters appealled to the candidates for prime minister in the May elections to withdraw from Lebanon and not to be blind. Israel has controlled parts of south Lebanon since 1978, it set up its security zone in 1985 with the declared aim of protecting its northern border from guerrilla attacks.
Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern lays a wreath January 18 at the mass grave of the Qana massacre where hundreds of Lebanese civilians were killed in Israeli shelling on a U.N. shelter in the Qana village in south Lebanon in 1996.
Pro-Iranian Hizbollah militants pass by a models of katyusha rockets similar to those launched by the resistance in south Lebanon during a parade held in Beirut's suburbs January 15 to mark the last Friday of Ramadan as Jerusalem Day. This day is observed throughout the Moslem world to denounce Israel and its staunch ally the USA.
A Lebanese father uses a shovel to lift snow covering the entrance to his house, as his children throw snow back at him January 22. Following snowstorms over the last four days much of Lebanon mountain areas are covered snow. The town of Bahamdoun is one of Lebanon's more famous summer resorts.
