Lebanese News
in Pictures.
Pictures of events in Lebanon in July 2000.
For photographs of the Israeli withdrawal from south Lebanon click here.
Former Lebanese President and opposition leader Amin Gemayel, left, cries as he embraces his son Pierre, at Beirut airport July 30, 2000 after some 10 years of self-imposed exile.
July 30, 2000 Two U.N. Indian peacekeepers sit on a hill overlooking the Lebanese-Israeli border near the southern Lebanese village of Abbassiyeh
Irish soldier in an armored personnel carrier of the United Nation Iterm Forces in south Lebanon (UNIFIL) take up a position on a hill in front of the border with Israel in the village of Yaroun in south Lebanon, July 28. The UN peacekeepers took up positions on the Lebanon Israeli border on Friday.
Armed Palestinians loyal to the Fatah group of Yasser Arafat chant slogans against Israel as they stand in front of a model of the Jerusalem al-Qoudse Mosque during a protest held in ain al-Hilweh refugee camp near the port-city of Sidon in south Lebanon, July 26,2000. Thousands of Palestinian refugees demonstrated in south Lebanon in anger at the failure of the Camp David summit to achieve their return home. There are currently some 400,000 Palestinians in Lebanon, many thousands of them are armed.
A Hezbollah fighter looks at the Israeli settlements of Metulla on Friday, July 21, 2000. Hezbollah guerrillas have set up observation posts along the Lebanese-Israeli frontier, some only 50 meters away from the border fence, and have been sending out motorcycle patrols. Israeli withdrew its occupation troops from south Lebanon on May 24.
July 17, 2000 An armed Hezbollah guerrilla looks through binoculars at the Israeli town of Metullah on the Lebanese-Israeli border
Syrians demonstrate and gather at a polling stations in Lebanon July 10 2000 to vote in the referendum to confirm Bashar Assad as Syria's new president, succeeding his late father, Hafez Assad, who died on June 10. There are some 35,000 Syrian troops occupying Lebanon and around one million Syrian laborers who work there. As a result of the occupation the Syrians in Lebanon can not only demonstrate but also vote on Lebanese soil.
