Lebanese News
in Pictures.
Pictures of events in Lebanon in June 2000.
For photographs of the Israeli withdrawal from south Lebanon click here.
An Israeli soldier peers through the fence at the Israeli-Lebanese border June 1. Israel withdrew the last of its troops from nearby south Lebanon last week, ending a 22-year-long occupation.
An Israeli patrol passes along a road covered with stones thrown by Palestinians alongside the fence by Fatma Gate on the border with Israel in Kafar Kila village June 9. A Palestinian child was injured on Friday when Israeli soldiers fired at a crowd that gathered across the border with Lebanon, witnesses said.
A Syrian intelligence agent pastes a picture of Syrian President Hafez al-Assad (L) near another one of his son and likely successor, Bashar, in Beirut on June 11. Assad died on Saturday, aged 69, after ruling Syria for 30 years. Syria is the main power broker in Lebanon .
A Syrian soldier puts a picture of Syrian President Hafez al-Assad near a photo of the President's beloved son Bafel, who died in 1994 in a car accident, at a Syria base in Beirut June 10. Hafez al-Assad died on Saturday, aged 69 having ruled Syria for the past 30 years. Syria is the main power broker in Lebanon.
Syrians mourn at a symbolic funeral for Syrian President Hafez al-Assad in Beirut June 13. Lebanon, under Syrian occupation, shut down in homage to Assad who was buried in his home town of Qardaha after an official funeral attended by Arab and world leaders.
Lebanese and United Nations cartographers protect themselves near a U.N. armored vehicle after shots were fired from the Israeli side near the village of Abbasiyeh in south Lebanon on June 15. The cartographers were forced to suspend their efforts to verify Israel's withdrawal.
