Lebanon Photo
Diary, Lebanese News in Pictures.
Pictures of events in Lebanon in July 2001.
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For photographs of the Israeli withdrawal from south Lebanon click here.
A free-for-all erupts between Chinese and Lebanese players after their match at the 21st Asian Basketball Championship for Men in Shanghai July 23, 2001. Four Lebanese players were taken to hospital due to their injuries, it was report that the Chinese captain attacked the Lebanese players with surgical scissors. China won 87-76.
British rock star Sting sings in front of a sellout audience under the columns of the Roman Temple of Jupiter in eastern Lebanon's town of Baalbek on Friday, July 13, 2001. The former Police frontman gave a second performance on Saturday
Sir Elton John performs in front of thousands of Lebanese fans in the palace of Beiteddine, in the mountains south east of Beirut Saturday, July 7, 2001. John kicked off the Beiteddine Festival Saturday and will give another performance Sunday in his first appearance in the Middle East.
Israeli soldiers at an army position at the Israeli-Lebanese border near Har Dov July 1, 2001. Israel played down prospects of war with Syria after Israeli warplanes struck a Syrian anti-aircraft post in Lebanon in retaliation for an attack by Lebanese Hizbollah guerrillas on Israeli soldiers.
Syrian soldiers wait around their position after an Israeli air raid on the Bekaa Valley village of Sarain in eastern Lebanon July 1, 2001. Lebanon's Hizbollah guerrillas fired on Israeli troops in the disputed Shebaa Farms border zone on Sunday in response to an Israeli air raid in Lebanon that wounded at least two Syrian troops. Witnesses said Hizbollah fighters fired on Israeli positions at Rweisat al-Alam and Ramtha in the 25 sq km zone at the junction of the Lebanese border and the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights.