Lebanese News
in Pictures.
Pictures of events in Lebanon in August 1997.
For photographs of the Israeli withdrawal from south Lebanon click here.
Two Lebanese men clean their broken car windshield after shelling by the pro-Israeli South Lebanon Army militia on the southern port city of Sidon, August 18. The attack killed six civilians and wounded 36 others.
An Israeli artillery convoy moves up near Israel's border with Lebanon August 19 after Katyusha rockets fired by pro-Iranian Hizbollah guerrillas hit the border town of Kiryat Shmona and elsewhere in the Galilee, wounding one civilian. An international monitoring committee consisting of U.S., French, Lebanese, Israeli and Syrian officials will meet in southern Lebanon on August 21 to try to defuse tensions.
Lebanese prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri visits a child in a Sidon hospital August 20, one of the victims of shelling by Israel's local militia allies that killed seven civilians in the port city August 18. Al-Hariri's tour came amid escalating violence in Lebanon on a day when Israeli warplanes launched three air raids in the east and south.
Wounded Israeli soldiers, evacuated from south Lebanon, arrive in northern Israel for hospital treatment August 28. The soldiers were caught up in a blaze sparked by Israeli artillery and helicopter fire after a clash with Shi'ite Moslem guerrillas on the edge of Israel's occupation zone in south Lebanon.
An Israeli soldier carries a gun and helmet taken from Israeli soldiers who were burned to death in a blaze sparked by support fire from Israeli artillery and attack helicopters, August 28. The fire started after a clash with Shi'ite Moslem guerrillas on the edge of Israel's occupation zone in south Lebanon.
Supporters of the Shi' ite Amal movement in front of a UN armoured personnel carrier in the village of Ghandouriyeh in south Lebanon August 30. UN peacekeepers retrieved on Saturday the corpses of four Shi'ite Amal movement guerillas killed in clashes with Israeli forces two days ago in south Lebanon.
