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.
A fireball lights the sky over the Israeli coast, where an Israeli helicopter gunship shot down a Lebanese private plane, killing the pilot, which Israel said flew into its airspace from Beirut on May 24, 2001. The pilot Stephan Nicolian, was killed when Israel's air force shot down the Cessna light aircraft he stole from Lebanon on Thursday, the anniversary of Israel's pullout, after the he failed to heed warnings that he was over Israel.
Two members of Hizbollah stand in their position facing the disputed Shebaa farms area on the Lebanese border with Israel May 22, 2001. Hizbollah organised a tour for more than 100 reporters to its positions in south Lebanon, on which it exhibited three kinds of rockets. Picture taken May 22.
A member of Hizbollah adjusts a Katyusha rocket from one of its positions facing the disputed Shebaa farm area on the Lebanese border with Israel on May 22, 2001. Hizbollah organised a tour for more than 100 reporters to its positions in south Lebanon, in which it exhibited three kinds of rockets.
Two Hezbollah guerrillas, prepare Katyusha rockets in their base near the Chebaa farms on the Lebanese-Israeli border in south Lebanon Tuesday, May 22, 2001. Hezbollah organized a tour for the media of all south Lebanon to mark the first anniversary of Israel's withdrawal from the area May, 24, 2000.
A Hezbollah guerrilla in camouflage, sits near a rocket launcher at his position in the Hezbollah base near the Chebaa farms at the Lebanese-Israeli border in south Lebanon Tuesday, May 22, 2001. Hezbollah organized a tour for the media in all south Lebanon to mark the first anniversary of Israel's withdrawal from the area on May 24, 2000.
Israeli sodiers walk in their artillery position near the Lebanese border Tuesday May 14, 2001. Guerrillas in Lebanon fired two anti-tank missiles towards an Israeli army outpost, triggering Israeli artillery fire, the Israeli army said. The suspected source of fire was about three kilometers east of Kfar Chouba, a Lebanese village in the foothills of Mount Hermon.
The control tower at the Beirut International Airport is barely visible amid the haze on Sunday, May 13, 2001. A sandstorm engulfed the Lebanese capital Beirut Sunday, reducing visibility to around 500 meters (yards) and briefly disrupting air traffic at the airport.
A thick sandstorm covers the seaside in downtown Beirut May 13, 2001. The sandstorm, the worst for 30 years in Beirut, blanketed the region, limiting visibility and forcing planes to divert to other airports on Sunday.
A United Nations mine-sweeping vehicle belonging to the Finnish battalion detonates a land mine in the town of Hamamis on the Lebanese-Israeli border on Thursday, May 10, 2001. Lebanon is still in the process of removing thousands of land mines left behind by Israeli troops who withdrew from south Lebanon last May.
Lebanese citizens watch Israeli soldiers erect a fence on the Lebanese-Israeli border near the town of Edaysi, May 8, 2001. The border follows along a line drawn by the United Nations, which said that it would maintain a significant peacekeeping force in the area for at least a year. Israel has been fortifying its 70-kilometer long border with Lebanon. Attacks by guerrilla group Hizbollah forced the jewish state to end its long occupation of south Lebanon last year.
Israeli army officers inspect weapons found in a fishing boat allegedly bound for the Gaza Strip, in the northern Israeli coastal town of Haifa late Monday May 7, 2001. The boat, intercepted by the Israeli navy in international waters off Haifa, set out from Lebanon on Saturday with a cargo of Katyusha rockets, SA-7 hand-held anti-aircraft missiles, rocket-propelled grenades, bombs, a variety of mortars and a huge load of ammunition.
Israeli army officers, carry weapons out of a fishing boat allegedly bound for the Gaza Strip, in the northern Israeli coastal town of Haifa, Monday May 7, 2001. The boat, intercepted by the Israeli navy in international waters off Haifa, set out from Lebanon on Saturday with a cargo of Katyusha rockets, SA-7 hand-held anti-aircraft missiles, rocket-propelled grenades, bombs, a variety of mortars and a huge load of ammunition.
An Israeli army officer, marks weapons found in a fishing boat allegedly
bound for the Gaza Strip, in the northern Israeli coastal town of Haifa
Monday May 7, 2001. The boat, intercepted by the Israeli navy in international
waters off Haifa, set out from Lebanon on Saturday with a cargo of Katyusha
rockets, SA-7 hand-held anti-aircraft missiles, rocket-propelled grenades,
bombs, a variety of mortars and a huge load of ammunition.