Video Report: UNIFIL Convoy Attack in South Lebanon

Video Report from Lebanon's Border with Israel

May 15 2011: Violent clashes ensue as Palestinians commemorate the Nakba in Maroun al-Ras, Lebanon. CNN's Rima Maktabi reports.

Lebanese Police Bulldozer Burns

A bulldozer that was used by Lebanese police to demolish illegal buildings, burns after it was set on fire by owners protesting the demolishing process in the southern town of Adloun, Lebanon, Tuesday, May 3, 2011. Illegal construction is common in Lebanon, where many poor who cannot afford to buy land or apartments end up building on state-owned property (AP Photo via Daylife).

Images from Illegal Construction Confrontations

Top: Lebanese soldiers deploy to disperse residents at a street in Tyre, southern Lebanon, April 21, 2011. Two civilians were killed during clashes between residents and security forces over the illegal constructions on public lands in Tyre, southern Lebanon, the National News Agency (NNA) reported (source).  Second: A police car is set on fire by residents in Tyre, southern Lebanon, April 21, 2011. ...(source).  Third: Residents seize a police car in Tyre, southern Lebanon, April 21, 2011. ... (source).  Fourth: A man stands at the entrance of a shop in the building of an illegal construction site in Beirut's southern suburb of Ouzai, Lebanon, Thursday, April 21, 2011. Security officials say a dispute over a building permit in southern Lebanon has descended into a gunbattle that killed two people. Illegal construction is common in Lebanon, where many poor who cannot afford to buy land or apartments end up building on state-owned property (source). Bottom: A set of replica rockets which have been set up by Hezbollah in front of a picture of disappeared imam Moussa al-Sadr and a site where laborers are working at an illegal construction site in Abu Aswad near the southern port city of Tyre, Lebanon, Thursday, April 21, 2011. ... (source).

Lebanese Army at the Border

Lebanese soldiers stand on alert as an Israeli armored vehicle emits smoke in a border area between Lebanon and Israel in the southern town of Adaisseh, Lebanon, Thursday, April 14, 2011 (AP Photo via Daylife).

Qana Massacre: 15 Year Remembrance

Above: Smoke raises from the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) compound after it was shelled by Israeli artillery in the southern town of Qana 18 April 1996. Israeli forces pummeled a compound of UNIFIL housing Fijian forces and sheltering hundreds of civilians. 105 civilians were killed who had taken refuge there during Israel's 'Grapes of Wrath' offensive - also aimed at wiping out Hezbollah. World-wide condemnation was immediate and calls for an end to the fighting intensified, with Israel and Hezbollah agreeing to a ceasefire eight days later on April 26 (Getty Images via Daylife). Remaining: Fijian UN soldiers evacuate the remains of dead Lebanese refugee burned in the shelling of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) compound in Qana by Israeli shelling 18 April 1996 (Getty Images via here, here, here and here).

Qana Massacre 1996: Never Forget

Hizballah's New War Museum

LAF-UNIFIL Joint Military Exercises 01.09.10

French soldiers from the United Nations Interim Forces In Lebanon (UNIFIL) fire their artillery during a joint exercise with Lebanese Army Forces in the village of Naqura south of Beirut on September 01, 2010. The Field Artillery Group, part of UNIFIL Quick Reaction Force, and LAF Artillery took part in the exercise named 'Neptune Thunder' in an area about a Kilometer south of UNIFIL Headquarters in Naqura near the Lebanese Israeli border. (Getty Images via Daylife)

Lifecycle of a Razorwire Fence

Top: Lebanese residents of the southern town of Abbasiyeh remove a razor wire fence which was set up by Israel three days earlier on the so-called Blue Line, a border demarcation between Israel and Lebanon set by the United Nations, in Abbasiyeh, Lebanon, Friday, April 16, 2010. (AP Photo via Daylife) Bottom: Israeli soldiers set up a new razor wire fence near the so-called Blue Line, a border demarcation between Israel and Lebanon set by the United Nations, seen from the border town of Abbasiyeh, Lebanon, Tuesday, April 13, 2010. Lebanon is marking the 35th anniversary of the start of the 1975-90 civil war, in which Israel was often a player. (AP Photo via Daylife)

The Wazzani Fortress

Top: In this photo ... Khalil Abdullah, 56, a Lebanese businessman who recently returned to settle in Lebanon after 40 years spent working as a contractor in Africa, gestures as he stands on a hill above his resort which is seen under construction along the Wazzani River in the border village of Wazzani on the Lebanon-Israel border. ... the "Wazzani Fortress," as the $3 million project is called, is one of several resorts sprouting up along the tense border with Israel in what investors hope will be a new tourist attraction - one with a political message to Israel.  Middle: In this picture ... a Syrian worker sets a pipe at an under-construction resort along the Wazzani River in the border village of Wazzani on the Lebanon-Israel border.  Bottom: In this picture ... a Syrian worker, digs at a restaurant under renovation along the Wazzani River with the Israeli border across the river, in Wazzani, Lebanon. Along the lush waters of the Wazzani River that separates the two countries, the sight of workers toiling round the clock at the construction site of a huge tourist resort and restaurants is common. (Wednesday April 21, 2010 - AP Photo via Daylife - Top; Middle; Bottom)

Update: The NYTimes reports on the Wazzani Fortress
Update: Robert Fisk reports on the resort.

South Park

In this picture taken on Wednesday April 21, 2010, southern Lebanese families enjoy their day at a newly opened border park at Mround el-Rass, with Israel seen in the background. The $1.5 million park is being developed by an Iranian organization assisting Lebanon with reconstruction efforts - a "gift" from the Islamic Republic of Iran to the Lebanese people, as a sign at the entrance says. (AP Photo via Daylife)

Update: NOWLebanon has more on the Iranian-funded park.