People walk past anti-Turkish graffiti on a wall in the main Armenian district of the northern Beirut suburb of Bourj Hammoud, Lebanon, Tuesday, October 6, 2020. In Bourj Hammoud anger and anxiety are clear among the population over the fighting between Armenian and Azerbaijani forces in the separatist region of Nagorno-Karabakh that broke out on Sept. 27 and has left dozens killed since then. Hundreds of fighters from around the Middle East are heading to Nagorno-Karabakh in Azerbaijan to join rival countries fighting over the region. (Photo by Hassan Ammar/AP Photo)





Goats are pictured on a cliff near Lebanon's northern village of Ehden, north of Beirut on December 01, 2020. (Photo by Joseph Eid/AFP Photo)





People release scores of white balloons bearing the names of the Aug. 4 blast victims at about 6:07 p.m., when the deadly explosion occurred, to mark the two-month anniversary, next to the seaport of Beirut, Lebanon, Sunday, October 4, 2020. (Photo by Hassan Ammar/AP Photo)





Wildfires burn a forest in Chbaniyeh village, Lebanon on October 9, 2020. (Photo by Mohamed Azakir/Reuters)





An aerial view shows migrating cranes (grus grus) flying over the Lebanese city of Aley on Mount Lebanon, southeast of the capital Beirut, on October 27, 2020. (Photo by Kameel Rayes/AFP Photo)





Protesters wear headbands with Arabic that read: “We are your soldiers, Oh Muhammad”, during a protest against French President Macron's comments over Prophet Muhammad caricatures, near the Pine Palace, which is the residence of the French ambassador, in Beirut, Lebanon, Friday, October 30, 2020. Thousands of Muslims, from Pakistan to Lebanon to the Palestinian territories, poured out of prayer services to join anti-France protests on Friday, as the French president's vow to protect the right to caricature the Prophet Muhammad continues to roil the Muslim world. (Photo by Bilal Hussein/AP Photo)





A protester throws a stone towards riot police during a protest against French President Macron's comments over Prophet Muhammad caricatures, near the Pine Palace, which is the residence of the French ambassador, in Beirut, Lebanon, Friday, October 30, 2020. A few hundred demonstrators held a protest called for by a Sunni Islamist party, Hizb ul-Tahrir, against French cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad. (Photo by Bilal Hussein/AP Photo)





A statue of a woman made out of glass and rubble that resulted from the Beirut port mega explosion August 04, is placed opposite to the site of the blast in the Lebanese capital's harbour to mark the one year anniversary of the beginning of the anti-government protest movement across the country on October 20, 2020. Hundreds marched in Beirut on the weekend to mark the first anniversary of a non-sectarian protest movement that has rocked the political elite but has yet to achieve its goal of sweeping reform. (Photo by Joseph Eid/AFP Photo)





A protester takes pictures of a protest symbol that was set on fire by the supporters of former Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri, after a small demonstration had denounced the naming of Hariri as a potential candidate as the country's new prime minister, in downtown Beirut, Lebanon, Wednesday, October 21, 2020. Hariri resigned a year ago amid nationwide protests against government corruption and mismanagement of Lebanon's resources. (Photo by Hussein Malla/AP Photo)





A traffic policeman asks an angry anti-government protester to reopen the main highway that links Beirut with north Lebanon during a protest against rising prices and worsening economic and financial conditions, in Zalka, north of Beirut, Lebanon, Monday, October 5, 2020. Lebanon is passing through its worst economic and financial crisis in decades made worse by the coronavirus pandemic. (Photo by Hussein Malla/AP Photo)





Firefighter teams are seen outside of a building after a fuel oil tank exploded in a residential area of Beirut, Tariq al-Jedi, Lebanon on October 09, 2020. (Photo by Houssam Shbaro/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)





United Nations peacekeeping force (UNIFIL) vehicles make a stop across from a pole with signs indicating directions to different cities, while on patrol in the Lebanese southern coastal area of Naqura by the border with Israel, on October 11, 2020. On October 1, Lebanon and Israel, which are still technically at war, said they had agreed to begin UN-brokered negotiations over the shared frontier, in what Washington hailed a “historic” agreement, with a tentative date set for the discussions for October 14, which would be confirmed, according to a US envoy. (Photo by Mahmoud Zayyat/AFP Photo)





UN peacekeepers (UNIFIL) wear face masks as they ride in a vehicle in Naqoura, near the Lebanese-Israeli border, southern Lebanon on October 14, 2020. (Photo by Aziz Taher/Reuters)





Anti-government protesters hold up torches as they lit a giant flame over a metal statue that reads in Arabic: “October 17, Revolution”. next to the site of the Aug. 4 deadly blast in the seaport of Beirut that killed scores and wounded thousands in Beirut, Lebanon, Saturday, October 17, 2020. Thousands of people marked the first anniversary of the protest movement in different parts of Lebanon including the three largest cities, Beirut, Tripoli and Sidon. (Photo by Hassan Ammar/AP Photo)





A man rides his scooter pasts a concrete wall that installed by security forces to don't let the anti-government protesters reach the parliament building, in downtown Beirut, Lebanon, Monday, October 12, 2020. A year ago, hundreds of thousands of Lebanese took to the streets in protests nationwide that raised hopes among many for a change in a political elite that over that decades has run the country into the ground. (Photo by Bilal Hussein/AP Photo)





A Lebanese policeman writes a ticket for a car that violated the odd or even number plates car bans, as the country began a two-week lockdown to limit the spread of coronavirus that killed dozens of people over the past days, in Beirut, Lebanon, Saturday, November 14, 2020. The lockdown comes after the number cases increased sharply in recent weeks around Lebanon straining the country's medical sector where intensive care units are almost full. (Photo by Hussein Malla/AP Photo)





A relative of a prisoner speaks with Lebanese policemen outside the detention center of Baabda courthouse compound were nearly 70 inmates broke out of a prison early Saturday after smashing their cell doors and attacking prison guards, in the Beirut southeastern suburb of Baabda, Lebanon, Saturday, November 21, 2020. According to a police statement, five of the 69 inmates were killed when a car they stole to get away crashed into a tree during an ensuing police chase. (Photo by Hassan Ammar/AP Photo)





A general view of the destroyed Beirut port on December 01, 2020. Lebanon's economy is sinking into a “deliberate depression”, the World Bank said on December 1 in a damning report stressing the authorities' failure to tackle the crisis. Lebanon's economy started collapsing last year as a result of years of corrupt practices and mismanagement. The crisis was made worse by a nationwide wave of anti-government protests that paralysed the country late last year and the Covid-19 pandemic this year. (Photo by Joseph Eid/AFP Photo)





Members of the Lebanese Civil Defense erect a Christmas tree by Lebanese artist Hayat Nazer decorated with uniforms of firefighters as a way to pay tribute to colleagues who were killed in the August 4 port explosion, in the Lebanese capital's harbour on December 18, 2020. (Photo by Anwar Amro/AFP Photo)