People gather near lit candles during an event organized by a group of Russia supporters to show solidarity with Moscow against Ukraine in Beirut, Lebanon, Saturday, April 9, 2022. (Photo by Hassan Ammar/AP Photo)





People queue to buy bread outside a bakery in Beirut, Lebanon on April 12, 2022. (Photo by Mohamed Azakir/Reuters)





A large pre-election poster of the Lebanese candidates for the parliamentary elections displays at the Martyrs' Square in downtown Beirut, Lebanon, 19 April 2022. The Lebanese parliamentary elections are scheduled on 15 May 2022. (Photo by Wael Hamzeh/EPA/EFE)





Lebanese army soldiers try to calm an angry relative of a man who is one of the missing migrants from an overnight sinking of a boat, outside the seaport, in Tripoli, north Lebanon, Sunday, April 24, 2022. The Lebanese military announced that 47 people were rescued and some bodies recovered from the migrant boat. Several survivors told local TV stations that the Lebanese navy ship rammed their migrant boat twice, damaging it. (Photo by Hassan Ammar/AP Photo)





Mourners carry the corpse of one of the people who died when their boat capsized a day earlier off the coast of Tripoli, at the morgue of a hospital of the northern Lebanese city, on April 24, 2022. Lebanese troops rescued 17 people after a boat capsized off the country's northern coast, the state-run National News Agency reported today, adding that a child had died. The boat sank near the northern city of Tripoli and carried nearly 60 passengers, NNA said. It said the fate of 27 of them was unclear. (Photo by Ibrahim Chalhoub/AFP Photo)





A Lebanese navy rescuer is lowered on rope from a helicopter as the search for bodies continues following the sinking over the weekend of a boat packed with migrants as the Lebanese navy tried to force it back to shore, in Tripoli, north Lebanon, Monday, April 25, 2022. The small vessel was carrying nearly 60 people, many times its capacity, when the disaster struck on Saturday night. The tragedy was the latest in a growing trend involving mostly Lebanese and Syrians trying to travel to Europe from Lebanon in search of better lives. (Photo by Hassan Ammar/AP Photo)





Gunmen fire in the air and shout slogans during the funeral procession for seven people killed when a boat packed with migrants sunk over the weekend as the Lebanese navy tried to force it back to shore, in Tripoli, north Lebanon, Monday, April 25, 2022. The small vessel was carrying nearly 60 people, many times its capacity, when the disaster struck on Saturday night. The tragedy was the latest in a growing trend involving mostly Lebanese and Syrians trying to travel to Europe from Lebanon in search of better lives. (Photo by Hassan Ammar/AP Photo)





A street vendor sells light balloons at night during a power cut at Beirut's seaside corniche, Lebanon on April 27, 2022. (Photo by Mohamed Azakir/Reuters)





Hezbollah fighters hold a replica of the Dome of the Rock Mosque as march during a rally to mark Jerusalem day or Al-Quds day, in a southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, Friday, April 29, 2022. The leader of Lebanon's militant Hezbollah group warned Friday that if Israel continues to target Iran's presence in the region, Tehran could eventually retaliate by striking deep inside Israel. (Photo by Hassan Ammar/AP Photo)





A woman carries balloons for sale as she walks along a seaside promenade, during the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Fitr, in Beirut, Lebanon on May 2, 2022. (Photo by Yara Abi Nader/Reuters)





Women sit on their apartment balcony and smoke a water pipe next to of a poster of former Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri with Arabic reading “Boycott (the elections)”, in Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, May 10, 2022. Given Lebanon's devastating economic meltdown, Sunday's parliament election (May 15) is seen as an opportunity to punish the current crop of politicians that have driven the country to the ground. (Photo by Bilal Hussein/AP Photo)





A Lebanese journalist holds a portrait of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh during a protest in front of United Nations headquarters in Beirut, Lebanon, Wednesday, May 11, 2022. Abu Akleh was shot and killed on Wednesday while covering an Israeli military raid in the occupied West Bank. The broadcaster and two reporters who were with her blamed Israeli forces. (Photo by Bilal Hussein/AP Photo)





Lebanese policemen check the ID of voters outside a polling station near the Lebanese coastal city of Byblos (Jbeil), north of the capital Beirut, on May 15, 2022, ahead of casting their vote in the parliamentary election. Lebanon voted in its first election since multiple crises dragged it to the brink of failed statehood, with the ruling elite expected to comfortably weather public anger. The parliamentary election is a first test for opposition movements spawned by an unprecedented anti-establishment uprising in 2019 that briefly raised hopes of regime change in Lebanon. (Photo by Joseph Eid/AFP Photo)





Lebanese army vehicles patrol a street in Beirut, Lebanon, Saturday, May 14, 2022. Lebanese authorities began distributing ballot boxes to polling stations around the country on Saturday, a day before parliamentary elections were to be held. (Photo by Bilal Hussein/AP Photo)





Children swim in an inflatable pool that supporters of former Prime Minister Saad Hariri installed to illustrate their intention to boycott parliamentary elections, in Beirut, Lebanon, Sunday, May 15, 2022. Hariri, seen in poster, suspended his participation in Lebanese politics last year and has called on supporters to boycott Sunday’s vote – the first since Lebanon’s implosion started in October 2019. (Photo by Hassan Ammar/AP Photo)





A man searches in trash dumpsters for recyclable items to resell next to voting booths that were used Sunday in the Lebanese parliamentary elections, in Beirut, Lebanon, Monday, May 16, 2022. Lebanon's militant Hezbollah group and its allies suffered losses in this weekend's parliamentary elections, with preliminary results Monday showing some of their most vocal opponents picking up more seats and several of their traditional partners routed out of the legislature. (Photo by Hassan Ammar/AP Photo)





A Lebanese anti-government protester holds a national Lebanese flag as a team of engineers removes a concrete wall from a road that leads to the parliament building in Beirut, Lebanon, Monday, May 23, 2022. Lebanese authorities began removing giant cement barriers surrounding the parliament building in Beirut Monday, a week after a new legislature was elected. The blast walls were set up following nationwide protests that erupted in late 2019 amid an economic meltdown. (Photo by Hassan Ammar/AP Photo)





Members of Lebanese police dance as they celebrate Nabih Berri's re-election as parliament speaker in Beirut, Lebanon on May 31, 2022. (Photo by Aziz Taher/Reuters)





TikTok chef Abir El Saghir prepares a pastry dish at her kitchen in Jeb Jennin, west Bekaa, Lebanon on June 30, 2022. (Photo by Issam Abdallah/Reuters)





The Temple of Bacchus is illuminated during the opening of Baalbeck International Festival, in Baalbeck, Lebanon on July 8, 2022. (Photo by Issam Abdallah/Reuters)





Lebanese singer Soumaya Baalbaki and conductor Lubnan Baalbaki perform at the Roman temple of Bacchus, during the opening of Baalbeck International Festival, in Baalbeck, Lebanon on July 8, 2022. (Photo by Issam Abdallah/Reuters)