A picture taken on April 23, 2023, shows a man bungee jumping from a crane at Martyrs Square in Beirut. (Photo by Anwar Amro/AFP Photo)





Ali Mazloum, a Lebanese citizen who was evacuated from Sudan, is welcomed upon arrival at Beirut airport, Lebanon on April 25, 2023. (Photo by Mohamed Azakir/Reuters)





Supporters of the Lebanese Communist Party and members of the labour syndicate rally in Beirut on May 1, 2023 to mark the International Workers' Day. (Photo by AFP Photo/Stringer)





Cars wait in traffic as taxi drivers block a road during a protest against deteriorating economic conditions in Beirut, Lebanon on May 2, 2023. (Photo by Mohamed Azakir/Reuters)





A delivery driver displays a Lebanese national flag on his bike as he rides in Beirut, Lebanon, Wednesday, May 3, 2023. Many delivery drivers in Lebanon are Syrian and are sometimes subjected to attacks due to anti-refugee sentiment, so some have begun flying the Lebanese flag as a mean of self-protection. (Photo by Hassan Ammar/AP Photo)





A protesting depositor kicks a burning tire as Lebanese soldiers, background, stand guard in front of the Banking Association during a protest in Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, May 9, 2023. Depositors for years have protested at the banks, demanding their trapped savings bank, as they struggle from an economic crisis that has plunged over three-quarters of the tiny country's population into poverty. Lebanese banks since late 2019 have enforced formal capital controls due to currency shortages, severely restricting people's savings. Lebanon has yet to enforce financial reforms that would restructure the banks and its battered economy. (Photo by Hassan Ammar/AP Photo)





Bank security personnel and riot police attack an injured protesting depositor outside a Bank Audi branch in downtown Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, May 9, 2023. Depositors for years have protested at the banks, demanding their trapped savings back, as they struggle with an economic crisis that has plunged over three-quarters of the tiny country's population into poverty. Lebanese banks since late 2019 have enforced formal capital controls due to currency shortages, severely restricting people's savings. (Photo by Hussein Malla/AP Photo)





Hezbollah members take part in a military exercise during a media tour organized for the occasion of Resistance and Liberation Day, in Aaramta, Lebanon on May 21, 2023. (Photo by Aziz Taher/Reuters)





A fighter from the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah attempts a jump during a training exercise in Aaramta village in the Jezzine District, southern Lebanon, Sunday, May 21, 2023. The show of force came ahead of “Liberation Day”, the annual celebration of the withdrawal of Israeli forces from south Lebanon on May 25, 2000, and in the wake of a recent escalation of the Israel-Palestine conflict in the Gaza Strip. (Photo by Hassan Ammar/AP Photo)





Fighters from the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah carry out a training exercise in Aaramta village in the Jezzine District, southern Lebanon, Sunday, May 21, 2023. (Photo by Hassan Ammar/AP Photo)





Fighters from the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah ride their motorcycles during a training exercise in Aaramta village in the Jezzine District, southern Lebanon, Sunday, May 21, 2023. (Photo by Hassan Ammar/AP Photo)





Graphic designer Sahar Ghouche walks with her daughter Christy Maria next to a turtle made from plastic caps and bottles in Amchit, Lebanon on June 1, 2023. (Photo by Issam Abdallah/Reuters)





A Lebanese protester plants the national flag across the fence from an Israeli tank during an anti-Israeli demonstration near the “blue line” area, a demarcation line drawn by the UN to mark Israel's withdrawal from southern Lebanon in 2000, near the Lebanese southern village of Kfar Shuba on June 9, 2023. (Photo by Mahmoud Zayyat/AFP Photo)





A Lebanese protester throws stones at Israeli troops on the outskirts of the Lebanese village of Kfar Chouba, south Lebanon, Friday, June 9, 2023. Israeli soldiers fired tear gas to disperse scores of protesters who pelted the troops with stones along the border with Lebanon Friday, leaving some Lebanese demonstrators and troops suffering breathing problems. The tension on the edge of the Lebanese border village of Kfar Chouba began earlier this week over the Israeli military digging in the area that Lebanon claims. (Photo by Mohammad Zaatari/AP Photo)





A woman uses a phone to take a “selfie” photo with cat as she stands along the barbed wire fence demarcating the “blue line” – drawn by the United Nations to mark Israel's withdrawal from southern Lebanon in 2000 – while an Israeli Merkava battle tank is deployed nearby, at a position along the border near the village of Kfar Shuba in southern Lebanon on June 11, 2023. (Photo by Mahmoud Zayyat/AFP Photo)





Lebanese lawmaker Sethrida Geagea attends a parliament session to elect a president at the parliament building in Beirut, Lebanon, Wednesday, June 14, 2023. Lebanese lawmakers have failed in yet another attempt to elect a president and break a seven-month power vacuum roiling the country. (Photo by Hassan Ammar/AP Photo)





A protester smashes windows at Byblos Bank during a protest demanding the release of depositors' trapped savings, in Beirut, Lebanon, Thursday, June 15, 2023. Since Lebanon fell into a financial crisis in 2019, the banks have imposed informal capital controls, restricting depositors from accessing their funds, while the country's currency has collapsed and inflation has spiraled. (Photo by Hussein Malla/AP Photo)





A protester smashes windows at Bank Audi during a protest demanding the release of depositors' trapped savings, in Beirut, Lebanon, Thursday, June 15, 2023. (Photo by Hussein Malla/AP Photo)





A woman with a pot on her head holds a rolling pin and ladle, protests outside Byblos Bank during a protest demanding the release of depositors' trapped savings, in Beirut, Lebanon, Thursday, June 15, 2023. (Photo by Hussein Malla/AP Photo)