Lebanon Photo
Diary, Lebanese News in Pictures.
Pictures of recent events in Lebanon.
This page is updated frequently. For more pictures please visit the photographic archive.
For photographs of the Israeli withdrawal from south Lebanon click here.
Lebanese woman Natali Fadllah waves a U.S. flag during a party thrown by the American Embassy to celebrate the U.S. Independence Day in downtown Beirut, Lebanon Thursday, July 4, 2002.
U.S. honor guard holds U.S. and Lebanese flags as they perform the presentation of colors ceremony during a party to celebrate Fourth of July in downtown Beirut, Lebanon Thursday July 4, 2002.
Former Lebanese President Amin Gemayel, seen in this June 20, 2002 file picture, was expelled Wednesday, July 10, 2002 from the Phalange Party, Lebanon's most influential Christian political group but buffeted in recent years by infighting and dissent. The party politburo issued a statement saying Gemayel had rebelled against the leadership, violated party rules, called unauthorized party meetings, insulted the party and did not apologize for his actions. His father, Pierre Gemayel, founded the party
A Lebanese army soldier supervises the eradication by bulldozer of cannabis fields in Lebanon's eastern Bekaa Valley, July 22, 2002. Lebanese security officials said they would destroy 600 dunams (60 hectares) planted with cannabis in northern Lebanon and in the Bekaa, an impoverished agricultural region that is a stronghold of Lebanon's Hizbollah guerrilla movement. Bekaa farmers say failed agricultural policies have driven them to grow cannabis.
Hizbollah leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah speaks during a ceremony to mark the 13th anniversary of Israel's abduction of a senior Hizbollah cleric Sheikh Abdul-Karim Obeid, (shown in image in background), in Beirut July 29, 2002. Nasrallah said on Monday that pressure over its place in the U.S-led war on "terrorism" would do nothing to free Israelis held by Hizbollah.
Lebanese police examine two victims who were shot dead by a colleague
on the balcony of the teachers' pension fund office in Beirut July 31,
2002. A disgruntled employee opened fire with an automatic rifle at colleagues
on Wednesday, killing eight and wounding four at the office of a teachers'
pension fund. The murder was an Amal member. Despite claims that the shooting
had no sectarian motives, seven out of the eight murdered were Christian.
LBC and MTV are being prosecuted by the government for reporting that most
of those killed were Christian.