A police officer speaks with a protesting depositor as they stand in front of burning tires set on fire in front of a branch of Emirates Lebanese Bank in Dawra, a suburb north-east of Beirut, Thursday, August 29, 2024. Depositors for years have protested at the banks, demanding their trapped savings deposits, as they struggle from an economic crisis. (Photo by Bilal Hussein/AP Photo)





Bank customers help a woman who fainted during a protest organized by Depositors' Outcry, a group campaigning for the rights of depositors, in the Dora area, northern Beirut, Lebanon, 29 August 2024. Bank customers demand they be allowed to withdraw their savings, which have been blocked as a result of the ongoing economic crisis in the country, as the Lebanese pound has lost about 95 percent of its value against the US dollar. The currency was trading on the parallel market at 89,500 against the dollar on 29 August, more than five times the 15,000 official rate. (Photo by Wael Hamzeh/EPA/EFE)





A Lebanese police officer blocks protesters from entering the court building, as they protest against Riad Salameh, the former governor of Lebanon's Central Bank, in Beirut, Lebanon, Monday, September 9, 2024. (Photo by Hussein Malla/AP Photo)





A retired Lebanese soldier removes the barbed wires that set by security forces for blocking protesters to reach the government palace, during a protest demanding an increase in their monthly retirement pay, decimated in the economic meltdown, in Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, September 10, 2024. (Photo by Bilal Hussein/AP Photo)





A person is carried on a stretcher outside American University of Beirut Medical Center (AUBMC) as people, including Hezbollah fighters and medics, were wounded and killed when the pagers they use to communicate exploded across Lebanon, according to a security source, in Beirut, Lebanon on September 17, 2024. (Photo by Mohamed Azakir/Reuters)





Men carry the coffin of Mohammad Mahdi Ammar, son of Hezbollah member of the Lebanese parliament, Ali Ammar, who was killed amid the detonation of pagers across Lebanon, during his funeral in Beirut, Lebanon on September 18, 2024. (Photo by Mohamed Azakir/Reuters)





People attend a televised speech by the leader of the Hezbollah movement Hassan Nasrallah inside a house in the southern Lebanese village of Zawatar on September 19, 2024. Lebanon's powerful Hezbollah chief said on September 19 that Israel will not be able to return residents of the north displaced by 11 months of cross-border exchanges to their homes through military escalation. (Photo by Ammar Ammar/AFP Photo)





People walk at a beach as smoke billows over southern Lebanon following Israeli strikes, amid ongoing cross-border hostilities between Hezbollah and Israeli forces, as seen from Tyre, southern Lebanon on September 23, 2024. (Photo by Aziz Taher/Reuters)





Emergency workers use excavators to clear the rubble at the site of Friday's Israeli strike in Beirut's southern suburbs, Lebanon, Monday, September 23, 2024. (Photo by Hassan Ammar/AP Photo)





Smoke billows over southern Lebanon following Israeli strikes, amid ongoing cross-border hostilities between Hezbollah and Israeli forces, as seen from Tyre, southern Lebanon on September 23, 2024. (Photo by Aziz Taher/Reuters)





People in heavy traffic drive north from Lebanon's southern coastal city Sidon as some of them flee Israeli bombardment, amid ongoing cross-border hostilities between Hezbollah and Israeli forces, in Lebanon on September 23, 2024. (Photo by Amr Abdallah Dalsh/Reuters)





People in heavy traffic drive north from Lebanon's southern coastal city Sidon as some of them flee Israeli bombardment, amid ongoing cross-border hostilities between Hezbollah and Israeli forces, in Lebanon on September 23, 2024. (Photo by Amr Abdallah Dalsh/Reuters)





A wounded girl lies in a hospital bed in the southern village of Saksakieh, Lebanon, Tuesday, September 24, 2024. (Photo by Mohammed Zaatari/AP Photo)





Lebanese citizens who fled the southern villages amid ongoing Israeli airstrikes Monday, sit on their cars at a highway that links to Beirut city, in the southern port city of Sidon, Lebanon, Tuesday, September 24, 2024. (Photo by Mohammed Zaatari/AP Photo)





A firefighter works at the site of an Israeli strike, in Beirut's southern suburbs, Lebanon on September 24, 2024. (Photo by Amr Abdallah Dalsh/Reuters)





Smoke billows over southern Lebanon following an Israeli strike, amid ongoing cross-border hostilities between Hezbollah and Israeli forces, as seen from Tyre, Lebanon on September 25, 2024. (Photo by Amr Abdallah Dalsh/Reuters)





Mourners carry Hezbollah senior commander Ibrahim Qubaisi's coffin during a funeral for him and Hezbollah commander Hussein Ezzedine, who were killed in Tuesday's Israeli strike on Beirut's southern suburbs, Lebanon on September 25, 2024. (Photo by Louisa Gouliamaki/Reuters)





This picture shows the destruction in a area targeted overnight by Israeli airstrikes in Lebanon's town of Saksakiyeh, on September 26, 2024. Israel flatly rejected on September 26 a push led by key backer the United States for a 21-day ceasefire in Lebanon, as it vowed to keep fighting Hezbollah militants “until victory”. (Photo by Mahmoud Zayyat/AFP Photo)





A handset is seen in a damaged phone booth, a day after an Israeli strike on residential buildings in Maaysrah, north of Beirut, Lebanon on September 26, 2024. (Photo by Louisa Gouliamaki/Reuters)





A man looks at a damaged building at the site of an Israeli airstrike in Choueifat, southeast of Beirut, Lebanon, 28 September 2024. The Israeli army (Tsahal) said on 28 September 2024 on X (formerly Twitter) that Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah was killed in an overnight strike on Beirut. Hezbollah confirmed the death of Nasrallah in a statement on 28 September 2024. (Photo by Wael Hamzeh/EPA/EFE)