Lebanese News
in Pictures.
Pictures of events in Lebanon in April 2000.
For photographs of the Israeli withdrawal from south Lebanon click here.
Head of the liason unit Israeli General Benny Gansz (L) arrives with the head of the pro-Israeli militia of the South Lebanon Army (SLA) General Antoine Lahd (R) to an Israeli base in the Metulla village in south Lebanon April 3. Lahd held a press conference in this Israeli base, telling reporters that his troops would not flee when Israeli forces leave, but would stay to defend their land.
A Palestinian guerrilla trains militiamen loyal to Munir Maqdah, on how to use a rocket propelled grenade lancher in the Ain al-Hilweh refugee camp, near the port-city of Sidon in south Lebanon April 8. A Palestinian guerrilla leader Munir Maqdah close links to Syria warned last Thursday that Israel will not enjoy peaceful borders if it goes ahead with a planned withdrawal from Lebanon by July.
Lebanese army soldiers patrol the campus of the engineering faculty of Beirut's St. Joseph University after a hand grenade a student was playing with exploded, killing him and wounding five others April 11. Officials said David Ajaltouni was playing with the grenade in class when it blew up and that an investigation had been launched into the incident.
Lebanese detainees who arrived to Lebanese soil on 19 April after being held hostage for more than a decade by Israel, wave Hizbollah flags out of the Red Cross bus that brought them to their homeland. Hundreds of joyful relatives and villagers mobbed the bus carrying the men into the frontline village of Kfar Tibnit, which was decked out with flags and welcoming banners.
Lebanese Druze Sheiks pray with relatives standing over coffins of two pro-Israeli militiamen during a funeral held in Hasbaya town inside the Israeli occupation zone April 29. Three pro-Israeli militiamen were killed on Friday when Hizbollah guerrillas attacked their post at the edge of the Israeli self declared security zone in south Lebanon.
