Lebanese News
in Pictures.
Pictures of events in Lebanon in February 1997.
For photographs of the Israeli withdrawal from south Lebanon click here.
Rescue personnel stand near the site where two military helicopters crashed in stormy weather close to the border between Israel and Lebanon February 4. The helicopters collided over northern Israel and at least 70 Israeli soldiers died in the accident.
Rescue workers surround Israeli soldiers killed when two American-made Sikorsky CH-53 helicopters crashed in mid-air onto this northern Israel community February 4. At least 70 Israeli soldiers being flown into Lebanon were killed in the crash.
Israeli soldiers sift through the rubble of an army helicopter as they search for dead soldiers late February 4. Some 70 Israeli soldiers died when two army CH-53 helicopters transporting the men into southern Lebanon apparently collided and crashed over this agricultural community along the northern border with Lebanon. No one survived the crash, the worst in Israel' s military history.
A woman turns to talk to a friend as they attend a mass prayer held at the Wailing Wall, February 6, for the 73 Israeli soldiers and airmen who perished in the February 4 mid-air helicopter collision along the northern border with Lebanon. Tens of thousands of people turned out to take part in the prayer at the Wailing Wall.
Pro-Iranian Hizbollah children sit on a truck during a parade marking "Jerusalem Day" in Beirut's Shi'ite southern suburbs February 7. Lebanon's pro-Iranian Hizbollah marked the rally by urging Palestinians to kill their "treacherous and tyrannical" leadership which abandoned holy struggle and signed peace in Israel.
