Lebanese News in Pictures.
Pictures of events in Lebanon in the second week of October 2000.
For photographs of the Israeli withdrawal from south Lebanon click here.
A Lebanese soldier, sitting on an armoured personnel carrier, patrols the road next to the Rashidiyeh Palestinian refugee camp in southern Lebanon, Friday, Oct. 13, 2000. Lebanese Army reinforced many checkpoints to avoid uncontrolled reactions of Palestinian refugees to the violence in the Middle East.
Lebanese girls dressed in traditonal clothing escort a Phoenician replica boat during the opening ceremony of the Asian Cup 2000 tournament in Beirut October 12, 2000. Asia's top soccer competition kicked off in Lebanon as scheduled despite rising tensions in the Middle East.
U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan, passes by a police honour guard at Beirut airport Thursday, October 12, 2000. Annan arrived in Beirut for talks on a possible prisoner swap deal between three Israeli soldiers captured by Hezbollah and detainees in the Jewish state.
Pope John Paul II during his weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Wednesday, Oct. 11, 2000. During his speech the Pontiff said he was deeply anguished by the outburst of Israeli-Palestinian violence and urged both sides to rediscover the "path of dialogue". Raging violence in the Middle East has killed at least 88 people over the last 13 days and has spilled into Lebanon where Palestinians have been throwing stones at Israeli troops accross the border and on more than one ocassion even threw hand grenades.
An Israeli soldier mans a machine gun in a bunker on the southern Lebanese border in Lebwe October 11, 2000. Lebanon's Hizbollah accepted mediation with U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan in an effort to agree on an exchange of three captive Israeli soldiers for Arab prisoners held by Israel.
An Israeli soldier uses a sling shot to stone demonstrators and workers dismantling the area in front of the Fatima Gate on the Israeli-Lebanese border, at Kfarkila, southern Lebanon, Tuesday Oct. 10, 2000. The area was liberated after the Israeli's troops withdrew from southern Lebanon in May.
Israeli troops take positions as Palestinian refugees demonstrate at the Ramieh Gate on the Lebanese-Israeli border October 10, 2000. The refugees threw hand grenades as they were demonstrating at the site where Israeli soldiers shot and killed two of their comrades on Oct. 7
A Palestinian refugee holds a flag and displays the victory sign during a demonstration at the Ramieh Gate on the Lebanese-Israeli border October 10, 2000. The Palestinians were protesting against the killing of more than 90 people, mainly Arabs, in almost two weeks of clashes with the Israeli army in Israel, the West Bank and Gaza.
Lebanese army tank takes position on the coast of the southern city of Sidon on Monday, Oct. 9, 2000. Tension escalated between Lebanon and Israel after pro-Iranian Hezbollah guerrillas captured three Israeli soldiers from Chebaa Farms area in south Lebanon on Saturday.
U.N. peacekeepers patrol the Lebanese side of the Israel-Lebanon border in Kfarkila, southern Lebanon, Monday, Oct. 9, 2000. Tension escalated between Lebanon and Israel after pro-Iranian Hezbollah guerrillas captured three Israeli soldiers from Chebaa Farms in south Lebanon on Saturday.
An Israeli soldier looks through his binoculars into the village of Labbouneh, in southern Lebanon, near the Israeli territories, on the Lebanese-Israeli border on Monday Oct. 9, 2000. Tension escalated between Lebanon and Israel after pro-Iranian Hezbollah guerrillas captured three Israeli soldiers from Chebaa Farms in south Lebanon on Saturday.
Israeli soldiers on an armed personnel carrier monitor the village of Labbouneh in southern Lebanon, from Israeli territory on the Lebanese-Israeli border, Monday, Oct. 9, 2000. Tension escalated between Lebanon and Israel after pro-Iranian Hezbollah guerrillas captured three Israeli soldiers from Chebaa Farms in south Lebanon on Saturday.
Israeli soldiers arrive at the Sheik Abbad tomb frontier position on the Israeli side near the divided village of Markaba at the Israel-Lebanon border Sunday, Oct. 8, 2000. Calm returned to the Lebanese-Israeli border on Sunday as diplomatic contacts got under way to arrange a swap of three Israeli soldiers in Hezbollah's hands for Lebanese prisoners held by Israel.
An Israeli soldier carries a box of ammunition at the Sheik Abbad tomb from his position on the Israeli side near the divided village of Markaba at the Israel-Lebanon border Sunday, Oct. 8, 2000. Calm returned to the Lebanese-Israeli border on Sunday as diplomatic contacts got under way to arrange a swap of three Israeli soldiers in Hezbollah's hands for Lebanese prisoners held by Israel.
An Israeli soldier looks through binoculars from his position on the Israeli side of the divided village of Markaba at the Israel-Lebanon border Sunday, Oct. 8, 2000. Calm returned to the Lebanese-Israeli border on Sunday as diplomatic contacts got under way to arrange a swap of three Israeli soldiers in Hezbollah's hands for Lebanese prisoners held by Israel.
Lebanese Army armored personnel carriers take their position near the port of Sidon to prevent any Israeli attack Sunday, Oct. 8, 2000. Calm returned to the Lebanese-Israeli border on Sunday as diplomatic contacts got under way to arrange a swap of three Israeli soldiers in Hezbollah's hands for Lebanese prisoners held by Israel.
A Lebanese armored personnel carrier equiped with anti-aircraft guns takes up position on the highway near Beirut's airport on Sunday, Oct. 8, 2000. Hezbollah guerrillas on Saturday captured three Israeli soldiers after storming outposts in the disputed Chebaa farms in southern Lebanon under the cover of rockets and machine gun fire.
Israeli soldiers prepare tank shells as they mobilize along the northern Israeli border with southern Lebanon October 8, 2000. The Israeli-Palestinian crisis widened its borders yesterday when three Israeli soldiers were seized by Hizbollah forces in a cross border raid and Israel has been reinforcing its northern border.
