Lebanese News
in Pictures.
Pictures of events in Lebanon in August 1999.
For photographs of the Israeli withdrawal from south Lebanon click here.
Lebanese students look through the telescope of an amateur astronomer, who set up an observation post to watch the solar eclipse at Shbaniyeh mountain 30 kilometers east of Beirut August 9. Up to two billion people in Europe and the Middle East can marvel August 11 at one of nature's greatest miracles; the sun's last total eclipse before the millennium.
Dima, Ihab and Husam Dakik try out solar eclipse glasses on the balcony of their Beirut apartment overlooking the Mediterranean during sunset August 10. Thousands of Lebanese students will have the day off on Wednesday for the 87 per cent partial eclipse. The government has declared Wednesday a school holiday and advised citizens to stay indoor drawing criticism it was scaring people instead of encouraging them to safely watch the eclipse.
Commandos of Hizbollah (Party of God) lead the funeral procession of Ali Deeb August 17, a mastemind of the party's attacks to drive out Israel from a 15 km deep zone it occupies in south Lebanon. Hizbollah claims that Israel planted two roadside bombs which killed Deeb on Monday. Tens of thousands of the party's supporters marched during his funeral in the depressed southern suburb of Beriut.
Israeli soldiers embrace around the wreath-covered grave of their comrade First Sergeant Doron Hershkovitz at the end of the funeral for the 20-year-old infantry soldier August 18. Hershkovitz was one of two Israeli soldiers killed in a firefight with pro-Iranian Hizbollah guerrillas in south Lebanon on August 17, the first casualties in Israel's self-declared security zone since Prime Minister Ehud Barak took office last month.
United Nation soldiers inspect with civilians a valley damaged by Israeli warplanes in the village of Yater in south Lebanon August 29. Israeli forces attacked south Lebanon on Sunday wounding five civilians and three Hizbollah fighters, a Reuters correspondent and security sources said.
