A child waves the Palestinian Islamic Jihad group flag as she stands on an American flag during a protest in solidarity with the Palestinian people in Gaza, at Bourj al-Barajneh Palestinian refugee camp, in Beirut, Lebanon, Sunday, December 17, 2023. (Photo by Bilal Hussein/AP Photo)





An aerial view shows people dressed with Santa Claus outfits riding on standup paddles in the Mediterranean Sea, in Lebanon's northern coastal city of Batroun on December 21, 2023. (Photo by Ibrahim Chalhoub/AFP Photo)





Lebanese boys enjoying under a Christmas tree that set in Marjayoun square, a town near the Lebanese Israeli border, south Lebanon, on Thursday, December 21, 2023. Christians in the border villages of south Lebanon prepared for a subdued Christmas under the shadow of the ongoing war in Gaza and its spillover in Lebanon. (Photo by Mohammed Zaatari/AP Photo)





A car is submerged in flood water at a highway flooded by the rains, in Beirut, Lebanon, Saturday, December 23, 2023. A rainstorm has paralysed parts of Lebanon's cities, turning streets to small rivers, stranding motorists inside their vehicles and damaging homes in some areas. (Photo by Hussein Malla/AP Photo)





A Hezbollah fighter kisses the coffin of his comrade Ali Bazzi, who was killed with other two civilians by an Israeli airstrike that hit their house Tuesday night, during his funeral procession, in Bint Jbeil, South Lebanon, Wednesday, December 27, 2023. One Hezbollah fighter and two civilians, a newlywed couple, were killed in an overnight Israeli strike on a family-owned residential building in the town of Bint Jbeil, local residents and state media said Wednesday. (Photo by Mohammed Zaatari/AP Photo)





A sign reading “Beirut” is seen among Christmas decorations in downtown Beirut, Lebanon on December 26, 2023. (Photo by Aziz Taher/Reuters)





A Hezbollah Civil defense worker searches for body remains on a burned car, near an apartment building where an apparent Israeli strike Tuesday killed top Hamas political leader Saleh Arouri, in the southern suburb of Beirut that is a Hezbollah stronghold, Lebanon, Wednesday, January 3, 2024. The apparent Israeli strike that killed Hamas' No. 2 political leader, marking a potentially significant escalation of Israel's war against the militant group and heightening the risk of a wider Middle East conflict. (Photo by Hussein Malla/AP Photo)





Water is sprayed on a damaged building at the site of an explosion, in what security sources say is an Israeli drone strike, in the Beirut suburb of Dahiyeh, Lebanon on January 2, 2024. (Photo by Mohamed Azakir/Reuters)





Hezbollah fighters chant slogans as they attend the funeral procession of senior Hezbollah commander Wissam Tawil, during his funeral procession in the village of Khirbet Selm, south Lebanon, Tuesday, January 9, 2024. The elite Hezbollah commander who was killed in an Israeli airstrike Monday in southern Lebanon fought for the group for decades and took part in some of its biggest battles. (Photo by Hussein Malla/AP Photo)





A protester throws a can of oil at the Bank Med building during a protest organized by Depositors' Outcry, a group campaigning for the rights of depositors, in Beirut, Lebanon, 19 January 2024. Bank customers gathered outside Lebanon's Central Bank to protest against the unjust circulars to depositors and to “demand the imposition of a specific time schedule to return all funds to depositors under the title 'Enough injustice to depositors”. (Photo by Wael Hamzeh/EPA/EFE)





A depositor protester launches fireworks at a bank headquarters during a protest in Beirut, Lebanon, Friday, January 19, 2024. (Photo by Hussein Malla/AP Photo)





A Lebanese army officer stands next of a destroyed car in the southern town of Bazouriyeh, Lebanon, Saturday, January 20, 2024. An Israeli drone strike on the car near the Lebanese southern port city of Tyre killed two people, the state-run National News Agency reported. (Photo by Mohammad ZaatariAP Photo)





A view shows snow-covered trees and houses in Faraya as seen from Kfardebian, mount Lebanon on January 27, 2024. (Photo by Emilie Madi/Reuters)





A Lebanese soldier helps his retired comrade after inhaling tear gas during a protest demanding better pay in Beirut, Lebanon, Thursday, February 8, 2024. Lebanese security forces fired tear gas to disperse dozens of protesters, mainly retired soldiers, who tried to break through the fence leading to the government headquarters in downtown Beirut amid widespread anger over the harsh economic conditions in the country. (Photo by Hussein Malla/AP Photo)





A retired member of the Lebanese security forces reacts after he was injured during a clash with the Lebanese army soldiers outside of the government palace in downtown Beirut, Lebanon, 08 February 2024. Retired members of the Lebanese security are demanding increased pensions after the Lebanese lira has lost more than 90 percent of its value against the dollar since the start of the economic crisis in 2019. Over the past two years, retired members of the Lebanese security have staged many nationwide protests to call for higher pensions. Veterans and security personnel have clashed, and protesters have occasionally attempted to storm into Parliament and the Banque du Liban headquarters. (Photo by Wael Hamzeh/EPA)





Smoke billows during Israeli bombardment on the village of Khiyam in southern Lebanon near the boder with Israel on February 8, 2024, amid ongoing cross-border tensions as fighting continues between Israel and Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip. (Photo by Rabih Daher/AFP Photo)





Mourners stand near the coffins of 7 civilians, who were killed in an Israeli strike on February 14, according to security sources, during their funeral in Nabatieh, southern Lebanon on February 17, 2024. (Photo by Aziz Taher/Reuters)





A man salvages items at a damaged site that was hit by an airstrike on Monday, after what Lebanon's state media said was a series of Israeli strikes around Ghaziyeh on Lebanon's coast around 60 km north of the border with Israel, during a media tour, Lebanon Februray 20, 2024. (Photo by Aziz Taher/Reuters)





An activist reacts amid clashes with Lebanese riot police during a protest to demand the opening of Rafah border crossing between Egypt and the Gaza Strip, outside of the Egyptian embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, 22 February 2024. Thousands of Israelis and Palestinians have been killed since the militant group Hamas launched an unprecedented attack on Israel from the Gaza Strip on 07 October 2023, and the Israeli strikes on the Palestinian enclave which followed it. According to the United Nations, up to 1.9 million people, more than 85 percent of the Gaza Strip population, have been internally displaced, some more than once. (Photo by Wael Hamzeh/EPA)





An activist shouts amid clashes with Lebanese riot police during a protest to demand the opening of Rafah border crossing between Egypt and the Gaza Strip, outside of the Egyptian embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, 22 February 2024. (Photo by Wael Hamzeh/EPA/EFE)