Lebanese News
in Pictures.
Pictures of events in Lebanon in the first week of October 2000.
For photographs of the Israeli withdrawal from south Lebanon click here.
Israeli forces unload from helipcopters along the Israel-Lebanon border after Hizbollah guerillas captured three Israeli soldiers in an attack with rockets and machine guns on border posts and patrols October 7, 2000. Israeli helicopter gunships sprayed machine-gun fire around the area of the capture. The outbreak of violence along the frontier is the most serious since Israeli troops withdrew from south Lebanon in May, ending 22 years of occupation. The outbreak of fighting coincided with a wave of violence that has swept the West Bank, Gaza Strip and Arab towns in Israel over the last 10 days.
Israeli troops prepare their equipment near the northern Israeli border town of Kiryat Shemona as they arrive in the area Saturday, Oct. 7, 2000. Israel promised "forceful action" after violence spread Saturday to its border with Lebanon, where Hezbollah guerrillas attacked Israeli forces and captured three soldiers.
Israeli soldiers take position as Palestinians throw stones in Yarin, on the Israeli-south Lebanon border on Saturday, Oct. 7, 2000. Hizbollah guerrillas fired 50 salvoes of Katyushas, mortars and rocket-propelled grenades from southeast Lebanon Saturday at Israeli posts in the Shebaa Farms. Israel responded by bombarding Hezbollah posts and launching air strikes in the Shebaa area which wounded four Lebanese civilians. Hezbollah guerrillas kidnapped three Israeli soldiers in an ambush in the occupied Shebaa Farms.
Palestinian Hasan Hasanein 28-years-old, from Shatila refugee camp, is carried after he was killed in clashes with Israeli soldiers in Yarin, south Lebanon, on the Israeli border on Saturday Oct. 7, 2000. Two Palestinians were killed Saturday and 13 others wounded when Israeli soldiers fired shots after hundreds of Palestinian refugees gathered at the border and started throwing stones and Molotov cocktails at the Israelis from the Lebanese side of the border.
Palestinian demonstrators throw stones at an Israeli Army vehicle in Yarin, at the South Lebanon-Israeli border Saturday, Oct. 7, 2000, as violence that has rocked the Palestinian territories for more than a week spread to the Israeli-Lebanese border.
Palestinians stand atop the biblical Tomb of Joseph in the West Bank town of Nablus Saturday October 7, 2000. Palestinian gunmen and civilians stormed the Israeli enclave on Saturday, trashing Hebrew texts and setting fire to what some Jews believe is a holy site in a show of triumph just hours after Israeli troops evacuated the site. The tiny enclave had come under steady fire from Palestinian gunmen for several days, and Palestinians celebrated the withdrawal as a victory. The violence across the area was sparked by a Sept. 28 visit by hard-line opposition leader Ariel Sharon to a Jerusalem shrine holy to Muslims and Jews. The 10 days of clashes in the West Bank, Gaza Strip and east Jerusalem that have left at least 80 dead - almost all Palestinians - and thrown the Mideast peace process into turmoil.
Muslim Sunni and Shi'ite clergymen walk over American and Israeli flags at the gate of a complex where a sit-in was held in the southern port city of Sidon, October 4, 2000 to show support to the Palestinian people in their fight with Israelis. Clashes between Israelis and Palestinians erupted on Thursday after the Israeli right-wing leader Arial Sharon visited a Muslim site in the old City of Jerusalem.
Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, leader of the Hezbollah guerrillas, voices support for Palestinians in their uprising against the Israelis during a rally in Beirut's southern suburbs Wednesday night Oct. 4 2000. Nasrallah called on Palestinians to use any weapons, even knives, to kill Israelis during the ongoing clashes that have left about 60 Palestinians dead. He also urged religious leaders in the Arab and Muslim countries to issue a fatwa (religious edict) for an armed struggle against Israel.
Two Palestinian women carrying AK-47 assault rifles lead a demonstration at the Miyeh-Miyeh Palestinian refugee camp near Sidon in southern Lebanon Monday, Oct. 2, 2000 to protest clashes between Israeli security men and Palestinian youths in Jerusalem. Most of the Lebanon's 400,000 Palestinian refugees live in 13 refugee camps. The writing on the bandana of the woman (left) reads: We Shall Not Forget Thee (Jerusalem's Aqsa Mosque).
A Palestinian jumps over flaming tires during a protest at Ain al-Hilweh refugee camp near Sidon in south Lebanon, October 1, 2000. Hundreds of Palestinians demonstrated at the camp to protest over the clashes in Jerusalem and killing of at least 19 Palestinians in the past four days of violence.
