Lebanese News
in Pictures.
Pictures of events in Lebanon in September 2000.
For photographs of the Israeli withdrawal from south Lebanon click here.
A Palestinian, brandishing a gun and holding a poster of the Dome of the Rock mosque in Jerusalem, marches Saturday, Sept. 30, 2000, in the Ein el-Hilweh refugee camp in southern Lebanon, in protest against the violence between Palestinians and Israeli troops in Isreal.
A group of Lebanese refugees head for their homes on Friday, Sept. 22, 2000 shortly after their arrival from Israel where they had sought refuge following the Israeli withdrawal from southern Lebanon in May. They were among the group of 118 Lebanese who left for Israel with the Israeli army in May and returned to their homeland Friday. Twenty-eight of them were former militiamen who were held for questioning.
Lebanese army soldiers raise the Lebanese flag on top of an outpost in the Christian town of Jezzine in south Lebanon on Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2000. Soldiers began deploying in the Jezzine district Tuesday for the first time since the now-defunct Israeli-allied South Lebanon Army militia withdrew from the area.
A southern Lebanese man holds the Lebanese army flag facing Israeli army soldiers in their Merkava tank in the Chebaa farms near the border under the watchful eyes of a United Nations officer, part of the Observers Group Lebanon or OGL. Lebanese demonstrators penetrated into the disputed Chebaa farms Sunday Sept. 17, 2000. Some 250 Lebanese, burst through the iron gate that separates the farms from the villages in a show of support with the inhabitants of those still Israeli-occupied farms. Israeli troops did not retreat from the farms upon its withdrawal from southern Lebanon in May.
Lebanese Marie Moarbes holds her father's hand outside the International Airport in Beirut, Lebanon where she was received at the VIP lounge, Monday Sept. 4, 2000. Moarbes was held hostage by Muslim rebels in a remote island in the Philippines for around four months and was released along with five other hostages last week.
Former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri kisses his wife Nazek after being informed of the unofficial result of elections late on September 3, 2000, in Beirut. Prime Minister Selim al-Hoss conceded defeat September 4 in Lebanon's parliamentary elections and his billionaire rival al-Hariri looked set to sweep to victory.
