Lebanese News
in Pictures.
Pictures of events in Lebanon in May 1999.
For photographs of the Israeli withdrawal from south Lebanon click here.
A woman cries over the coffin of child who was among four people killed in a car bombing in a Jezzine enclave in south Lebanon, May 15. The upsurge of violence in the south claimed the worst toll this year seven people killed, including two outside the Israel's south Lebanon occupation zone. Hizbollah guerrillas are fighting to oust Israel from the 15 km (nine miles) deep zone in the south.
Pro-Iranian leader Shiekh Hassan Nasrallah raises an Israeli rifle during a rally with his guerrillas in Beirut' s suburbs May 17. More than 30,000 Lebanese gathered in front of the southern entrance to Beirut to welcome Hizbollah fighters arriving from south Lebanon. Hizbollah fighters attacked fortifications inside the southern security zone manned by Israeli and pro-Israeli South Lebananese militiamen on May 16, capturing weapons and an armored jeep.
Pro-Iranian Hizbollah guerrillas stand on top of an Israeli armored personnel carrier after they arrive in the suburbs of Beirut May 17 from south Lebanon. Hizbollah fighters captured the M113 U.S. made vehicle when they attacked on May 16 fortifications manned by Israel and the South Lebanon Army militiamen inside the 15-km (nine mile) deep zone the Jewish state occupies in the south.
Najla Harb mourns May 18 during the funeral of her son Farid Harb who was killed with his cousin Saddam Harb during Israeli shelling yesterday on the village of Zoutar in south Lebanon. Hizbollah said on Tuesday, May 17 that it had retaliated with a late-night katyusha attack on north Israel.
Palestinian Liberation Organization official Jamal Ad-Dayekh is helped by Lebanese policemen after a bomb exploded in his Range Rover in the port-city of Sidon May 21. Ad-dayekh was seriously injured in the bomb blast and lost his legs, two days after another PLO official was assassinated.
A Bedouin soldier offers Arabian coffee to Lebanese President Emile Lahoud (L) and Jordan's King Abdullah during a live ammunition show by Jordan's elite special forces at Zraqa town May 29. Lahoud arrived in Amman May 29 in a ground breaking visit focused on improving bilateral ties and the exchange of views on regional developments after the Israeli election.
British supermodel Naomi Cambell smiles during a press conference in Broummana, May 29. Cambell, on her first business trip to Lebanon, will later take part in a haute couture and jewelry show featuring Lebanese designers.
