Lebanese News
in Pictures.
Pictures of events in Lebanon in August 2000.
For photographs of the Israeli withdrawal from south Lebanon click here.
Armed Palestinians prepare to hang pictures of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat at the Ein el-Hilweh refugee camp on the outskirts of the southern port city of Sidon, Lebanon, on Wednesday August 30, 2000. There are currently some 400,000 Palestinians in Lebanon, many thousands of them are armed.
Lebanese military police patrol passes by an Israeli checkpoint, top, near the southern Lebanese village of Adaisseh, Wednesday August 9, 2000. Lebanese security forces deployed in the former Israeli-occupied zone in southern Lebanon in the first show of state authority here in 24 years.
Lebanese miltary police rest their arms in the southern Lebanese town of Bint Jbeil, Wednesday August 9, 2000. Lebanese security forces deployed in the former Israeli-occupied zone in southern Lebanon Wednesday, marking the first time that the Lebanese government has asserted control over the border areas of southern Lebanon since the 1970s.
Lebanese military police pass by a U.N. Irish peacekeeper checkpoint at the southern village of Haris, Wednesday August 9, 2000, The Lebanese security forces deployed in the former Israeli-occupied zone in southern Lebanon. The deployment marks the first show of state authority here in 24 years.
A Lebanese army convoy arrives in the southern Lebanese town of Bint Jbeil, early Wednesday, Aug. 9, 2000. A token force of Lebanese security officers moved into the former Israeli-occupied zone on Wednesday, marking the first time the government has asserted control over the border areas of southern Lebanon since the 1970s.
Two Israeli soldiers sit atop a tank as they watch the U.N. peacekeepers during their deployment on the Lebanese-Israeli border near the southern village of Alma Esh-Chaab, Saturday Aug. 5, 2000. U.N. peacekeepers began fanning out across the former Israeli-occupied zone, taking up positions along a Lebanese-Israeli border that was a battleground of the Arab-Israeli conflict for three decades.
