33 days war, Lebanon 2006 – Frederic Lafargue

Over 28 civilians, among them many children, were protecting themselves from Israeli bombardments in the basement of their homes in the southern Lebanese village of Qanaa, when at least two homes were targeted by Israeli shelter bombs.
Lebanese residents of Sidon in the first city north of the Litani river in Lebanon live a semblance of normality despite the city’s huge refugee population from Lebanese villages south of the Litani.
One of the collapsed bridges on Lebanon’s main North-South highway barrs passage, contributing to the paralysis of the country. The highway, along with many of the country’s bridges, major ports, power plants, and the international airport have been hit by Israeli aircraft and warships, which pounded areas in south, east and northern Lebanon on Saturday, a day after Hizbollah’s chief declared an open war against the Jewish state following the bombardment of his stronghold in Beirut.
Federal agent on duty at Beirut harbor for the evacution of US citizens.
Daylight shows colossal damage after Israeli rockets rained down on Lebanon’s capital. Entire apartment buildings dissapeared after Israeli vacuum bombs hit Beirut’s Southern Shiite suburb of Dahiyeh incessantly for 3 straight days. The suburbs, where few survivors were found, were embedded in silence July 16, 2006.
Daylight shows colossal damage after Israeli rockets rained down on Lebanon’s capital. Entire apartment buildings dissapeared after Israeli vacuum bombs hit Beirut’s Southern Shiite suburb of Dahiyeh incessantly for 3 straight days. The suburbs, where few survivors were found, were embedded in silence July 16, 2006.
Daylight shows colossal damage after Israeli rockets rained down on Lebanon’s capital. Entire apartment buildings dissapeared after Israeli vacuum bombs hit Beirut’s Southern Shiite suburb of Dahiyeh incessantly for 3 straight days. The suburbs, where few survivors were found, were embedded in silence July 16, 2006.
A Hizbollah militant stares in shock at the ruins now making up the Haret Hreik district of Beirut. Daylight shows colossal damage after Israeli rockets rained down on Lebanon’s capital. Entire apartment buildings dissapeared after Israeli vacuum bombs hit Beirut’s Southern Shiite suburb of Dahiyeh incessantly for 3 straight days. The suburbs, where few survivors were found, were embedded in silence July 16, 2006.
Daylight shows colossal damage after Israeli rockets rained down on Lebanon’s capital. Entire apartment buildings dissapeared after Israeli vacuum bombs hit Beirut’s Southern Shiite suburb of Dahiyeh incessantly for 3 straight days. The suburbs, where few survivors were found, were embedded in silence July 16, 2006.
Daylight shows colossal damage after Israeli rockets rained down on Lebanon’s capital. Entire apartment buildings dissapeared after Israeli vacuum bombs hit Beirut’s Southern Shiite suburb of Dahiyeh incessantly for 3 straight days. The suburbs, where few survivors were found, were embedded in silence July 16, 2006.
Daylight shows colossal damage after Israeli rockets rained down on Lebanon’s capital. Entire apartment buildings dissapeared after Israeli vacuum bombs hit Beirut’s Southern Shiite suburb of Dahiyeh incessantly for 3 straight days. The suburbs, where few survivors were found, were embedded in silence July 16, 2006.
American passport holders at the last Lebanese check point before boarding on navy ships.
Civilian residents of Dahiyah, the southern Shiite suburb of Beirut, seek refuge in the basement of the targeted Haret Hreik area on July 16, 2006. It is unclear wether they survived the continuing bombardment during the day. Colossal damage was done to the district after Israeli rockets rained down incessantly on Lebanon’s capital. Entire apartment buildings dissapeared after Israeli vacuum bombs hit Beirut’s Southern Shiite suburb of Dahiyeh incessantly for 3 straight days.
Greek citizens on the waterfront moments before their evacuation on a Greek military ship.
At the US embassy of Beirut, American citizens are evacuated to Cyprus by an helicopter of the US Marine corps.
At the US embassy of Beirut, American citizens are evacuated to Cyprus by an helicopter of the US Marine corps.
At the US embassy of Beirut, American citizens are evacuated to Cyprus by an helicopter of the US Marine corps.
In the christian village of Rmaich lebanese refugees (also muslim) gathered in the basement of the church.
the rubble of a building destroyed minutes before in an Israeli air strike in the southern port city of Tyre.while searching for survivors in the ruins residents and volonteers find numerous qoran books.
the rubble of a building destroyed minutes before in an Israeli air strike in the southern port city of Tyre.while searching for survivors in the ruins residents and volonteers find numerous qoran books.
the rubble of a building destroyed minutes before in an Israeli air strike in the southern port city of Tyre.while searching for survivors in the ruins residents and volonteers find numerous qoran books.
In east part of Tyre, long range rockets RAAD 1 launched on Israel.
A destroyed israeli Merkava tank near the boder between Israel and Lebanon close to Ait El Shaab village.Many Lebanese celebrated what they perceived as the win of Hizbollah after a month long war with Israel. The war lead to over 1000 civilian deaths in Lebanon and vast destruction of the country’s infrastructure from heavy Israeli bombardments.
Members of the Shiite Amal party, linked to Hizbollah, drive through the destroyed southern Lebanese city of Bint Jbeil making the victory sign and showing their AK 47. Many Lebanese celebrated what they perceive as the win of Hizbollah after a month long war with Israel. The war lead to over 1000 civilian deaths in Lebanon and vast destruction of the country’s infrastructure from heavy Israeli bombardments. .
Decorated with a few flowers, the smallest of the 31 simple plywood coffins, center, made to contain one-day-old girl Sawsan Tajeldin, can be seen during the preparation for a mass burial of Lebanese victims at the southern port city of Tyre, Lebanon Saturday July 29, 2006. Tajeldin was killed along with her mother , when the car they were fleeing from the nearby village of Bazouriyeh was hit by an Israeli warplane missile strike. With a few mourners at hand, 31 victims of Israel’s two-week long bombardment were buried in a mass grave in this Lebanese city
Decorated with a few flowers, the smallest of the 31 simple plywood coffins, center, made to contain one-day-old girl Sawsan Tajeldin, can be seen during the preparation for a mass burial of Lebanese victims at the southern port city of Tyre, Lebanon Saturday July 29, 2006. Tajeldin was killed along with her mother , when the car they were fleeing from the nearby village of Bazouriyeh was hit by an Israeli warplane missile strike. With a few mourners at hand, 31 victims of Israel’s two-week long bombardment were buried in a mass grave in this Lebanese city
Lebanese refugees from southern Lebanon arrive at the Tyres port to be evacuated to Cyprus in a ship rented by Germany, July 24, 2006.
Corpses of some of the 50 civilians , mainly children, killed by israeli shelter bomb strike.
Corpses of some of the 50 civilians , mainly children, killed by israeli shelter bomb strike.
Corpses of some of the 50 civilians , mainly children, killed by israeli shelter bomb strike.
Corpses of some of the 50 civilians , mainly children, killed by israeli shelter bomb strike.
the preparation for a mass burial of Lebanese victims at the southern port city of Tyre, Lebanon Saturday July 29, 2006. With a few mourners at hand, 31 victims of Israel’s two-week long bombardment were buried in a mass grave in this Lebanese city
Residents of Ghaziyeh, near Sidon, Lebanon put the body of 2 year old Malek Jbeiri into a hurriedly made grave. The girl died when an Israeli airstrike targeted her family’s building just as a funeral procession for the 15 victims of the previous mornings bombardment passed alongside the building, creating 13 more civilian deaths.
In sunni mosque close of the tyre harbour.
The grandfather of 2 year old Malek Jbeiri gestures after praying over the girl’s grave in Ghaziyeh, near Sidon, Lebanon. His granddaughter died when an Israeli airstrike targeted her family’s building just as a funeral procession for the 15 victims of the previous mornings bombardment passed alongside the building, creating 13 more civilian deaths.
Monthlong Israeli airstrikes have flattened the southern Lebanese town of Ait el Shaab. Many Lebanese celebrated what they perceived as the win of Hizbollah after the month long war that lead to over 1500 civilian deaths in Lebanon and vast destruction of the country’s infrastructure from Israeli airstrikes.
Monthlong Israeli airstrikes have flattened the southern Lebanese town of Ait el Shaab. Many Lebanese celebrated what they perceived as the win of Hizbollah after the month long war that lead to over 1500 civilian deaths in Lebanon and vast destruction of the country’s infrastructure from Israeli airstrikes.
The skull of a man is found next to the bodies of his wife, mother and children, some of them still in the same position they were, seated on sofas in their living room, when an Irsaeli bomb crushed their home in the southern Lebanese town of Bint Jbeil. The family was among the first victims of the Israeli airstrikes that blitzed and flattened the city. Like many civilian victims, the incessant bombardment made it impossible for rescue workers to recover the injured and the dead from under the rubble of their houses until the ceasefire agreement one month after the beginning of the war between Israel and Lebanon. The war lead to more than1500 civilian deaths in Lebanon and vast destruction of the country’s infrastructure.
For the first time in the conflict between Hezbollah armed forces and Israel, the Israeli airforce has carried out and air raid on a Shia (non-Hezbollah) section of Beirut causing over 20 civilian casualties.
A resident of Palestinian refugee camp Ein El Hilweh near Sidon, Lebanon, stares at two immense craters where hours before the camp’s Fatah building stood. Israeli airstrikes targeted the building because they alledgedly mistook it for a Hizbollah center. The previous night’s bombardment left 4 dead and10 wounded, among them several children.
Lebanese refugees try to maintain a semblance of normality in a girl’s school in Sidon after fleeing from their homes and villages in soutehrn Lebanon. 1400 refugees are housed and provided with food in this school supported by the Hariri foundation. One month into the war between Israel and Lebanon, one million Lebanese civilians, a quarter of the country’s population, are displaced. Many find refuge in schools, parks, or other people’s homes in areas perceived as safe.
For the first time in the conflict between Hezbollah armed forces and Israel, the Israeli airforce has carried out and air raid on a Shia (non-Hezbollah) section of Beirut causing over 20 civilian casualties.
Pour la premiere fois depuis le debut du conflit opposant Israel au Hezbollah libanais l’aviation israelienne a effectue un bombardement sur le quartier de Beyrouth de Shiah, non hezbollah, faisant plus de 20 tués parmis les habitants civils.

Over 28 civilians, among them many children, were protecting themselves from Israeli bombardments in the basement of their homes in the southern Lebanese village of Qanaa, when at least two homes were targeted by Israeli shelter bombs.
Lebanese residents of Sidon in the first city north of the Litani river in Lebanon live a semblance of normality despite the city’s huge refugee population from Lebanese villages south of the Litani.
One of the collapsed bridges on Lebanon’s main North-South highway barrs passage, contributing to the paralysis of the country. The highway, along with many of the country’s bridges, major ports, power plants, and the international airport have been hit by Israeli aircraft and warships, which pounded areas in south, east and northern Lebanon on Saturday, a day after Hizbollah’s chief declared an open war against the Jewish state following the bombardment of his stronghold in Beirut.
Federal agent on duty at Beirut harbor for the evacution of US citizens.
Daylight shows colossal damage after Israeli rockets rained down on Lebanon’s capital. Entire apartment buildings dissapeared after Israeli vacuum bombs hit Beirut’s Southern Shiite suburb of Dahiyeh incessantly for 3 straight days. The suburbs, where few survivors were found, were embedded in silence July 16, 2006.
Daylight shows colossal damage after Israeli rockets rained down on Lebanon’s capital. Entire apartment buildings dissapeared after Israeli vacuum bombs hit Beirut’s Southern Shiite suburb of Dahiyeh incessantly for 3 straight days. The suburbs, where few survivors were found, were embedded in silence July 16, 2006.
Daylight shows colossal damage after Israeli rockets rained down on Lebanon’s capital. Entire apartment buildings dissapeared after Israeli vacuum bombs hit Beirut’s Southern Shiite suburb of Dahiyeh incessantly for 3 straight days. The suburbs, where few survivors were found, were embedded in silence July 16, 2006.
A Hizbollah militant stares in shock at the ruins now making up the Haret Hreik district of Beirut. Daylight shows colossal damage after Israeli rockets rained down on Lebanon’s capital. Entire apartment buildings dissapeared after Israeli vacuum bombs hit Beirut’s Southern Shiite suburb of Dahiyeh incessantly for 3 straight days. The suburbs, where few survivors were found, were embedded in silence July 16, 2006.
Daylight shows colossal damage after Israeli rockets rained down on Lebanon’s capital. Entire apartment buildings dissapeared after Israeli vacuum bombs hit Beirut’s Southern Shiite suburb of Dahiyeh incessantly for 3 straight days. The suburbs, where few survivors were found, were embedded in silence July 16, 2006.
Daylight shows colossal damage after Israeli rockets rained down on Lebanon’s capital. Entire apartment buildings dissapeared after Israeli vacuum bombs hit Beirut’s Southern Shiite suburb of Dahiyeh incessantly for 3 straight days. The suburbs, where few survivors were found, were embedded in silence July 16, 2006.
Daylight shows colossal damage after Israeli rockets rained down on Lebanon’s capital. Entire apartment buildings dissapeared after Israeli vacuum bombs hit Beirut’s Southern Shiite suburb of Dahiyeh incessantly for 3 straight days. The suburbs, where few survivors were found, were embedded in silence July 16, 2006.
American passport holders at the last Lebanese check point before boarding on navy ships.
Civilian residents of Dahiyah, the southern Shiite suburb of Beirut, seek refuge in the basement of the targeted Haret Hreik area on July 16, 2006. It is unclear wether they survived the continuing bombardment during the day. Colossal damage was done to the district after Israeli rockets rained down incessantly on Lebanon’s capital. Entire apartment buildings dissapeared after Israeli vacuum bombs hit Beirut’s Southern Shiite suburb of Dahiyeh incessantly for 3 straight days.
Greek citizens on the waterfront moments before their evacuation on a Greek military ship.
At the US embassy of Beirut, American citizens are evacuated to Cyprus by an helicopter of the US Marine corps.
At the US embassy of Beirut, American citizens are evacuated to Cyprus by an helicopter of the US Marine corps.
At the US embassy of Beirut, American citizens are evacuated to Cyprus by an helicopter of the US Marine corps.
In the christian village of Rmaich lebanese refugees (also muslim) gathered in the basement of the church.
the rubble of a building destroyed minutes before in an Israeli air strike in the southern port city of Tyre.while searching for survivors in the ruins residents and volonteers find numerous qoran books.
the rubble of a building destroyed minutes before in an Israeli air strike in the southern port city of Tyre.while searching for survivors in the ruins residents and volonteers find numerous qoran books.
the rubble of a building destroyed minutes before in an Israeli air strike in the southern port city of Tyre.while searching for survivors in the ruins residents and volonteers find numerous qoran books.
In east part of Tyre, long range rockets RAAD 1 launched on Israel.
A destroyed israeli Merkava tank near the boder between Israel and Lebanon close to Ait El Shaab village.Many Lebanese celebrated what they perceived as the win of Hizbollah after a month long war with Israel. The war lead to over 1000 civilian deaths in Lebanon and vast destruction of the country’s infrastructure from heavy Israeli bombardments.
Members of the Shiite Amal party, linked to Hizbollah, drive through the destroyed southern Lebanese city of Bint Jbeil making the victory sign and showing their AK 47. Many Lebanese celebrated what they perceive as the win of Hizbollah after a month long war with Israel. The war lead to over 1000 civilian deaths in Lebanon and vast destruction of the country’s infrastructure from heavy Israeli bombardments. .
Decorated with a few flowers, the smallest of the 31 simple plywood coffins, center, made to contain one-day-old girl Sawsan Tajeldin, can be seen during the preparation for a mass burial of Lebanese victims at the southern port city of Tyre, Lebanon Saturday July 29, 2006. Tajeldin was killed along with her mother , when the car they were fleeing from the nearby village of Bazouriyeh was hit by an Israeli warplane missile strike. With a few mourners at hand, 31 victims of Israel’s two-week long bombardment were buried in a mass grave in this Lebanese city
Decorated with a few flowers, the smallest of the 31 simple plywood coffins, center, made to contain one-day-old girl Sawsan Tajeldin, can be seen during the preparation for a mass burial of Lebanese victims at the southern port city of Tyre, Lebanon Saturday July 29, 2006. Tajeldin was killed along with her mother , when the car they were fleeing from the nearby village of Bazouriyeh was hit by an Israeli warplane missile strike. With a few mourners at hand, 31 victims of Israel’s two-week long bombardment were buried in a mass grave in this Lebanese city
Lebanese refugees from southern Lebanon arrive at the Tyres port to be evacuated to Cyprus in a ship rented by Germany, July 24, 2006.
Corpses of some of the 50 civilians , mainly children, killed by israeli shelter bomb strike.
Corpses of some of the 50 civilians , mainly children, killed by israeli shelter bomb strike.
Corpses of some of the 50 civilians , mainly children, killed by israeli shelter bomb strike.
Corpses of some of the 50 civilians , mainly children, killed by israeli shelter bomb strike.
the preparation for a mass burial of Lebanese victims at the southern port city of Tyre, Lebanon Saturday July 29, 2006. With a few mourners at hand, 31 victims of Israel’s two-week long bombardment were buried in a mass grave in this Lebanese city
Residents of Ghaziyeh, near Sidon, Lebanon put the body of 2 year old Malek Jbeiri into a hurriedly made grave. The girl died when an Israeli airstrike targeted her family’s building just as a funeral procession for the 15 victims of the previous mornings bombardment passed alongside the building, creating 13 more civilian deaths.
In sunni mosque close of the tyre harbour.
The grandfather of 2 year old Malek Jbeiri gestures after praying over the girl’s grave in Ghaziyeh, near Sidon, Lebanon. His granddaughter died when an Israeli airstrike targeted her family’s building just as a funeral procession for the 15 victims of the previous mornings bombardment passed alongside the building, creating 13 more civilian deaths.
Monthlong Israeli airstrikes have flattened the southern Lebanese town of Ait el Shaab. Many Lebanese celebrated what they perceived as the win of Hizbollah after the month long war that lead to over 1500 civilian deaths in Lebanon and vast destruction of the country’s infrastructure from Israeli airstrikes.
Monthlong Israeli airstrikes have flattened the southern Lebanese town of Ait el Shaab. Many Lebanese celebrated what they perceived as the win of Hizbollah after the month long war that lead to over 1500 civilian deaths in Lebanon and vast destruction of the country’s infrastructure from Israeli airstrikes.
The skull of a man is found next to the bodies of his wife, mother and children, some of them still in the same position they were, seated on sofas in their living room, when an Irsaeli bomb crushed their home in the southern Lebanese town of Bint Jbeil. The family was among the first victims of the Israeli airstrikes that blitzed and flattened the city. Like many civilian victims, the incessant bombardment made it impossible for rescue workers to recover the injured and the dead from under the rubble of their houses until the ceasefire agreement one month after the beginning of the war between Israel and Lebanon. The war lead to more than1500 civilian deaths in Lebanon and vast destruction of the country’s infrastructure.
For the first time in the conflict between Hezbollah armed forces and Israel, the Israeli airforce has carried out and air raid on a Shia (non-Hezbollah) section of Beirut causing over 20 civilian casualties.
A resident of Palestinian refugee camp Ein El Hilweh near Sidon, Lebanon, stares at two immense craters where hours before the camp’s Fatah building stood. Israeli airstrikes targeted the building because they alledgedly mistook it for a Hizbollah center. The previous night’s bombardment left 4 dead and10 wounded, among them several children.
Lebanese refugees try to maintain a semblance of normality in a girl’s school in Sidon after fleeing from their homes and villages in soutehrn Lebanon. 1400 refugees are housed and provided with food in this school supported by the Hariri foundation. One month into the war between Israel and Lebanon, one million Lebanese civilians, a quarter of the country’s population, are displaced. Many find refuge in schools, parks, or other people’s homes in areas perceived as safe.
For the first time in the conflict between Hezbollah armed forces and Israel, the Israeli airforce has carried out and air raid on a Shia (non-Hezbollah) section of Beirut causing over 20 civilian casualties.
Pour la premiere fois depuis le debut du conflit opposant Israel au Hezbollah libanais l’aviation israelienne a effectue un bombardement sur le quartier de Beyrouth de Shiah, non hezbollah, faisant plus de 20 tués parmis les habitants civils.

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