A fisherman dangles his line to catch fish during sunset at Beirut's seaside Corniche, Lebanon on May 4, 2025. (Photo by Orhan Qereman/Reuters)





This pictures taken from the southern Lebanese area of Marjeyoun shows smoke billowing from the site of Israeli airstrikes on the hills of the southern Lebanese village of Nabatiyeh on May 8, 2025. (Photo by Rabih Daher/AFP Photo)





People sunbathe on a sandy beach along the Mediterranean sea in Batroun, northern Lebanon, on Saturday, May 31, 2025. (Photo by Bilal Hussein/AP Photo)





Emergency workers are seen amid damaged buildings and debris in the aftermath of an Israeli airstrike that targeted the Hadath neighborhood in the southern suburbs of Beirut on June 6, 2025. A series of Israeli air strikes hit Beirut's southern suburbs on the night of June 5, after the military said it would target underground Hezbollah drone factories. Plumes of smoke were seen billowing from the Lebanese capital, shortly after huge numbers of people had fled the area, clogging the roads with traffic. (Photo by AFP Photo/Stringer)





A free diver looks at a lionfish, an invasive type of fish in the Mediterranean sea, while diving near the shores of the northern coastal Lebanese city of Batroun on June 8, 2025. (Photo by Ibrahim Chalhoub/AFP Photo)





A protester throws tomatoes at the BLOM Bank building during a protest organized by the Union of Lebanese Expatriates Depositors and Depositors' Outcry, a group campaigning for the rights of depositors, in Beirut, Lebanon, 04 July 2025. Bank customers gathered outside Lebanon's Central Bank to protest the continued restrictive measures on bank deposits, which have been in place since 2019. They also object to a decision by the central bank to return people's savings over an undisclosed number of years. (Photo by Wael Hamzeh/EPA)





A youth jumps into the Mediterranean Sea, during a sunny day at the Corniche Al Manara in Beirut, Lebanon, 03 August 2025. (Photo by Wael Hamzeh/EPA)





An image of Lebanese singer Hiba Tawwaji is projected on the outer wall of the Roman ruins of the Temple of Bacchus, as she performs during the Baalbeck International Festival in the eponymous Lebanese city in the eastern Bekaa Valley, late on August 8, 2025. (Photo by Rita Hage/AFP Photo)





This picture shows a cloud of smog over Lebanon's capital Beirut on August 14, 2025. A World Bank climate and development report last year said the transport sector was Lebanon's second-biggest contributor to greenhouse gas and air pollution, accounting for a quarter of emissions, only behind the energy sector. (Photo by Joseph Eid/AFP Photo)





Men play footvolley on the Ramlet al-Baida public beach in Beirut, Lebanon, Thursday, August 14, 2025, on a sweltering hot day. (Photo by Bilal Hussein/AP Photo)





An aerial view taken with a drone shows salt evaporation ponds in the coastal town of Anfeh, Lebanon, 22 August 2025. George Sulaiman inherited the family sea salt business in 2013 and modernized it to produce a wider range of products, including coarse salt, magnesium salt, magnesium oil, Japanese nigari salt, and fleur de sel, in an operation running over 4,000 square meters and has an annual production of 60 tons of salt. The production of sea salt is a long-standing artisanal tradition in Anfeh, which includes drawing seawater into shallow, concrete-lined basins, where it evaporates over several months due to the sun and wind, leaving behind salt crystals that are subsequently harvested. (Photo by Wael Hamzeh/EPA)





A Syrian boy sells balloons as the sun sets over the Mediterranean waterfront promenade in Beirut, Lebanon, Saturday, August 23, 2025. (Photo by Bilal Hussein/AP Photo)





A Lebanese army vehicle moves at the Ain al-Hilweh camp for Palestinian refugees in Lebanon's southern city of Sidon on September 13, 2025, as armed Palestinian groups hand over their weapons to Lebanese authorities. Palestinian factions handed over weapons from Lebanon's largest refugee camp on September 13, an official from the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) said, as part of a push by the government to disarm non-state groups. (Photo by Mahmoud Zayyat/AFP Photo)





A retired member of the Lebanese security forces flashes the victory sign next to burning tires during a protest demanding inflation adjustments to pensions, in downtown Beirut, Lebanon, 17 September 2025. Retired military personnel also called for a sit-in outside government headquarters to demand an increase in their monthly pensions, which have been severely affected by the country's economic collapse. (Photo by Wael Hamzeh/EPA)





Smoke, flames and debris following an Israeli airstrike in the village of Kfar Tebnit, southern Lebanon, 18 September 2025. Israel's military conducted strikes targeting multiple towns, including Meiss El Jabal and Dibbine, and claimed it struck Hezbollah military targets in southern Lebanon, escalating tensions along the border. (Photo by EPA/EFE/Stringer)





Supporters of Hezbollah sail near Raouche Rock during an event organized by Hezbollah to mark the first anniversary of the deaths of the late Hezbollah leaders Hassan Nasrallah and Hashem Safieddine in Beirut, Lebanon, 25 September 2025. Nasrallah was killed on 27 September 2024 in an Israeli airstrike targeting a Hezbollah command center in Haret Hreik. Safieddine, briefly named as his successor, was killed days later in a separate Israeli strike. (Photo by Wael Hamzeh/EPA)





People gather outside the municipality building in the southern Lebanese border village of Blida in the aftermath of an Israeli army raid on the village, on October 30, 2025. The Israeli military on October 30 killed a municipal worker in a raid in southern Lebanon, prompting the Lebanese president to order the army to confront such incursions. Israel's military confirmed the raid, saying it was operating against Hezbollah infrastructure when its forces fired on a “suspect”. (Photo by Mahmoud Zayyat/AFP Photo)





Members of Lebanon's Shiite militant group Hezbollah mourn over the coffins of comrades killed in recent Israeli attacks during their funeral in the southern city of Nabatiyeh on November 2, 2025. Hundreds of people gathered in south Lebanon's Nabatiyeh on November 2, 2025 to mourn five Hezbollah members killed in recent Israeli attacks, an AFP correspondent said, as Israel warned of intensifying attacks against the Iran-backed group. On November 1, an Israeli strike killed four people in Kfar Rumman, Nabatiyeh district, the Lebanese health ministry and the Israeli military said. (Photo by Mahmoud Zayyat/AFP Photo)





Smoke rises following an Israeli airstrike in the village of Teir Debba, southern Lebanon, November 6, 2025. (Photo by Mohammad Zaatari/AP Photo)