Farmers plant potatoes at Harf Beit Hasna village, in Dinnieh province, north Lebanon, Wednesday, September 7, 2022. Farmers in a small mountainous town in Lebanon's northern Dinnieh province once could rely on rain to irrigate their crops and sustain a living. But climate change and the country's crippling economic crisis has left their soil dry and their produce left to rot. They rely on the little rain they can collect in their innovative artificial ponds to make enough money to feed themselves, as they live without government electricity, water, and services. (Photo by Hussein Malla/AP Photo)





Farmers clean drying tobacco leaves at Harf Beit Hasna village in Dinnieh province, north Lebanon, Wednesday, September 7, 2022. (Photo by Hussein Malla/AP Photo)





Students play in a playground of a private school in Beirut, Lebanon on September 22, 2022. (Photo by Mohamed Azakir/Reuters)





Soldiers scuffle with retired army members as they try to enter to the parliament building while the legislature was in session discussing the 2022 budget, during a protest in downtown Beirut, Lebanon, Monday, September 26, 2022. The protesters demanded an increase in their monthly retirement pay, decimated during the economic meltdown. (Photo by Bilal Hussein/AP Photo)





Lebanese army soldiers clash with protesters outside of the Lebanese parliament, where lawmakers attend a parliament session to approve the 2022 budget in downtown Beirut, Lebanon, 26 September 2022. Retired army soldiers have gathered outside the Lebanese Parliament during a session to approve the 2022 budget to demand higher pensions. (Photo by Wael Hamzeh/EPA/EFE/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





Lebanese army soldiers clash with retired military personnel as they try to break into the parliament in Beirut on September 26, 2022, during a session to approve the 2022 budget. (Photo by Anwar Amro/AFP Photo)





Soldiers scuffle with retired army members as they try to enter to the parliament building while the legislature was in session discussing the 2022 budget, during a protest in downtown Beirut, Lebanon, Monday, September 26, 2022. The protesters demanded an increase in their monthly retirement pay, decimated during the economic meltdown. (Photo by Bilal Hussein/AP Photo)





A retired army member lies on the ground and chants slogans as others try to enter to the parliament building while the legislature was in session discussing the 2022 budget in downtown Beirut, Lebanon, Monday, September 26, 2022. (Photo by Bilal Hussein/AP Photo)





Retired members of the army run from tear gas fired by riot police near the parliament as the legislature was in session discussing the 2022 budget, during a protest in downtown Beirut, Lebanon, Monday, September 26, 2022. (Photo by Bilal Hussein/AP Photo)





250 and 500 Lebanese pound coins bracelets are seen on display inside a store in the northern city of Tripoli, Lebanon on September 30, 2022. (Photo by Emilie Madi/Reuters)





An activist wears a message on her protective face mask “Stop Killing Us” during a protest against the death of Iranian Mahsa Amini in Iran, in Beirut, Lebanon, Sunday, October 2, 2022. Iran's parliamentary speaker Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf warned Sunday that protests over the death of the young woman in police custody could destabilize the country and urged security forces to deal harshly with those he claimed endanger public order, as countrywide unrest entered its third week. (Photo by Hassan Ammar/AP Photo)





Cynthia Zarazir, a member of the Lebanese parliament looks at a woman as she entered a Byblos bank branch seeking her own savings according to a depositors' advocacy group in Antelias, Lebanon on October 5, 2022. (Photo by Mohamed Azakir/Reuters)





Beirut legislator Cynthia Zarazir speaks on the phone as she walks inside a Byblos Bank branch near the capital Beirut, demanding $8,500 from her savings to cover expenses for a surgery, in Antelias, Lebanon, Wednesday, October 5, 2022. Cash-strapped Lebanon in recent weeks has witnessed a surge in depositors storming bank branches to forcefully withdraw their locked savings, as the country's economy continues to spiral. On Tuesday, depositors stormed at least four banks, two of which were armed. (Photo by Bilal Hussein/AP Photo)





Protesters throw bottles glasses at the Lebanese Central Bank building, background, where the anti-government demonstrators rally against the Lebanese Central Bank Governor Riad Salameh and the deepening financial crisis, in Beirut, Lebanon, Wednesday, October 5, 2022. (Photo by Hassan Ammar/AP Photo)





A protester throws a molotov cocktail at the Lebanese Central Bank building, background, where the anti-government demonstrators rally against the Lebanese Central Bank Governor Riad Salameh and the deepening financial crisis, in Beirut, Lebanon, Wednesday, October 5, 2022. (Photo by Hassan Ammar/AP Photo)





Sali Hafez, left, who broke into a BLOM Bank branch last month with others activists and forced bank employees to hand over $12,000 and the equivalent of about $1,000 in Lebanese pounds gestures as she leaves the Justice Palace, in Beirut, Lebanon, Thursday, October 6, 2022. A Lebanese judge on Thursday fined and issued a six-month travel ban to Hafez who stormed her bank with a fake pistol and took her trapped savings to cover her sister's cancer treatment. (Photo by Hassan Ammar/AP Photo)





Syrian refugees gather as they prepare to leave the Arsal area, before their journey to their homes in Syria, at Arsal in Bekaa valley, Lebanon, 26 October 2022. Reports state hundreds of Syrian refugees began their trip home on 26 October from different areas in Lebanon, as part of a coordinated operation between authorities in Beirut and Damascus. Two million and eighty thousand displaced Syrians are currently in Lebanon, and about 540 thousand Syrians have voluntarily returned to their country since the start of the plan in 2017, according to Lebanese Director General of Public Security Major General Abbas Ibrahim. (Photo by Wael Hamzeh/EPA/EFE)





A child stands next to a pile of garbage at a make-shift camp for Syrian refugees in Talhayat in the Akkar district in north Lebanon on October 26, 2022. (Photo by Ibrahim Chalhoub/AFP Photo)





Supporters of Lebanese President Michel Aoun hold up a giant Lebanese flag as he delivers a speech outside the presidential palace in Baabda, east of Beirut, Lebanon, Sunday, October 30, 2022. Aoun left Lebanon's presidential palace Sunday marking the end of his six-year term without a replacement, leaving the small nation in a political vacuum that is likely to worsen its historic economic meltdown. (Photo by Bilal Hussein/AP Photo)





Hezbollah fighters parade during a rally marking Hezbollah Martyr's Day, in the southern Beirut suburb of Dahiyeh, Lebanon, Friday, November 11, 2022. Hezbollah's chief Hassan Nasrallah said his group wants a new Lebanese president that will not “betray” the Iran-backed faction in the future adding that the United States is doing all it can strangle the group. (Photo by Bilal Hussein/AP Photo)