Lebanese News
in Pictures.
Pictures of events in Lebanon in March 2000.
For photographs of the Israeli withdrawal from south Lebanon click here.
Armed Lebanese policmen block the road in front of supporters of the Japanese Red Army during a demonstration in Beirut March 1. Lebanon on Wednesday rejected a Japanese request to extradite five Red Army guerrillas jailed in Beirut and will discuss granting them political asylum. The sign says; political asylum for our comrade Kovo Okomoto.
Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah (C) is greeted by Lebanese President Emile Lahoud (R) as Army Commander Michel Sleiman salutes at the presidential palace in Baabda near Beirut March 2. Crown Prince Abdullah held talks in Beirut on Thursday that officials said were aimed at bolstering Lebanon against violent Israeli threats.
A Palestinian student poses with his small submachine gun as other students dress the part of suicide bombers with fake explosives belted to their uniforms during a protest rally at a university March 5, urging Hizbollah guerrillas in southern Lebanon to launch fresh attacks against Israel. The protest, held by some 2,000 students at at university, comes at the heels of a week of Palestinian protests sparked by French Prime Minister Lionel Jospin's remarks that Hizbollah fighters in Lebanon were "terrorists."
Pope John Paul II receives gifts from Lebanese Prime Minister Selim Al Hoss (L) during their private audience at Vatican March 2. Pope John Paul will visit the Holy Land from March 20-26.
Former Japanese Red Army guerrillas Kozo Okamoto (C), Kazuo Tohira (R) and Haruo Wako (L) pose during the wedding of Masao Adachi in Roumieh prison near Beirut, February 22. Lebanon on Friday granted political asylum to Okamoto but deported four of his comrades Adachi, Tohira, Wako and Mariko Yamamoto to Jordan, the interior ministry said. The ministry said in a statement the government made an exception for Okamoto because he participated in resistance operations against Israel and was subsequently tortured in Israeli jails.
A south Lebanese school girl stands in front of U.N. peacekeepers barraks on the frontline facing Israel's occupation zone March 15. Israeli warplanes and gunboats pounded south Lebanon on Wednesday in retaliation for attacks by Hizbollah guerillas on Israeli army posts in the Jewish state's occupation zone.
Pope John Paul II arrives at his huge mass in his Popemobile as the flags of Israel (R) Lebanon (L) and the fledgling Palestinian state (C) are waved by a cheering crowd of about 100,000 Christians March 24. The Pope delivered mass where Jesus began his teachings and performed miracles overlooking the Sea of Galilee.
