Lebanon Photo
Diary, Lebanese News in Pictures.
Pictures of recent events in Lebanon.
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For photographs of the Israeli withdrawal from south Lebanon click here.
President Bush, right, meets with Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri in the Oval Office of the White House Tuesday, April 24, 2001, in Washington. The prime minister talked about rebuilding Lebanon's economy, still shaky more than a decade after its long civil war, while appealing for understanding for the country's precarious position squeezed between rivals Israel and Syria.
In this picture provided by the Lebanese Army, Gen. Michel Suleiman, commander of the Lebanese Army, second right, speaks to an unidentified Syrian officer as they inspect the damage of the Syrian radar station, which was hit by an Israeli air strike in Dahr el-Baidar, north of the Beirut-Damascus highway in Lebanon earlier Monday April 16, 2001. The attack killed three Syrian soldiers and wounded six, a Lebanese security officer said. For more pictures of the raid click HERE.
Anti-aircraft Syrian position near the Syrian radar station, which was hit by an Israeli air strike at Dahr el-Baidar, north of the Beirut-Damascus highway in Lebanon, Monday April 16, 2001. Striking deep into Lebanon to retaliate for guerrilla attacks, Israeli warplanes attacked strategic Syrian radar station in the central mountains early Monday, the first raid in five years against Syrian positions in the country. Three Syrian soldiers including an officer were killed and six others wounded.
An Israeli shell explodes in Marj-Kfarshouba in south Lebanon on the border with Israel April 14, 2001. Israeli warplanes and artillery repeatedly struck south Lebanon shortly after Hizbollah guerrillas attacked an Israeli border position.
A group of hooded Palestinian militants from the Islamic group Hamas wearing fake explosives on their waist and black headbands reading "Death for the sake of God," march together during a demonstration in the southern port city of Tyre, Lebanon on Friday, April 13, 2001. Hundreds of Palestinians took part in the demonstration at the Buss refugee camp in Tyre to support the Palestinian uprising.
Syrian workers remove a sniper's outpost April 12, 2001 on the former Green Line which divided the Lebanese capital Beirut during the 1975-1990 civil war into Muslim and Christian sectors. Tomorrow marks the 26th anniversary of the war, which destroyed Lebanon, and resulted in Syrian dominance of the country. The government has banned demonstrations to mark the war and demanded Syrian troop withdrawal, saying they were too divisive.
Muslim fundamentalists carry wooden clubs and swords during an arranged demonstration at Makassed area in Beirut Wednesday April 11, 2001. Defying a government ban on demonstrations to avoid confrontation between anti-Syrian and pro-Syrian groups, around 150 Muslims many of whom were gathered up by Syrian agents to stage a protest shouting pro-Syrian slogans and waving daggers, swords and sticks.
Lebanese pro-Iranian Hizbolla guerrillas beat themselves in mourning
the Shi'ite leader Hussein, who died in 680 AD battling Sunni Muslim forces
in Iraq, during the Ashoura ceremony in Beirut April 4, 2001. The leader
of Hizbollah passionately defended Syria's troop presence in Lebanon on
Wednesday and urged Christians to stop demanding their withdrawal.