An aerial view taken with a drone shows the Italian, French, and Lebanese musicians performing at the seaside corniche in Beirut, Lebanon, 25 February 2024. Italian, French, and Lebanese musicians perform as part of a street event organized by the Al Bustan International Festival which runs between 21 February and 17 March 2024. (Photo by Wael Hamzeh/EPA)





People walk past a damaged building in the aftermath of an overnight Israeli airstrike on the city of Baalbek in east central Lebanon on March 12, 2024. Israeli air strikes on March 11 near Lebanon's eastern city of Baalbek killed one person, in the second raid on the Hezbollah stronghold since cross-border hostilities began. The Israeli military confirmed its jets had hit two sites belonging to "Hezbollah's aerial forces" in retaliation for strikes on the occupied Golan Heights over several days. (Photo by AFP Photo)





A youth sits by a damaged vehicle outside a destroyed building in the aftermath of an overnight Israeli airstrike on the city of Baalbek in east central Lebanon on March 12, 2024. Israeli air strikes on March 11 near Lebanon's eastern city of Baalbek killed one person, in the second raid on the Hezbollah stronghold since cross-border hostilities began. The Israeli military confirmed its jets had hit two sites belonging to “Hezbollah's aerial forces” in retaliation for strikes on the occupied Golan Heights over several days. (Photo by AFP Photo)





People gather on the rubble of a paramedic center that was destroyed by an Israeli airstrike early Wednesday in Hebbariye village, south Lebanon, Wednesday, March 27, 2024. The Israeli airstrike on a paramedic center linked to a Lebanese Sunni Muslim group killed several people of its members. The strike was one of the deadliest single attacks since violence erupted along the Lebanon-Israel border more than five months ago. (Photo by Mohammed Zaatari/AP Photo)





Paramedic workers search for victims in the rubble of a paramedic center that was destroyed by an Israeli airstrike early Wednesday in Hebbariye village, south Lebanon, Wednesday, March 27, 2024. The Israeli airstrike on a paramedic center linked to a Lebanese Sunni Muslim group killed several people of its members. The strike was one of the deadliest single attacks since violence erupted along the Lebanon-Israel border more than five months ago. (Photo by Mohammed ZaatariAP Photo)





A Palestinian woman gestures during a march marking the annual al-Quds Day, (Jerusalem Day), at Burj al-Barajneh Palestinian refugee camp in Beirut, Lebanon on April 5, 2024. (Photo by Mohamed Azakir/Reuters)





A journalist takes pictures of damaged buildings after an Israeli airstrike in Sultaniyeh region of Southern Lebanon, 08 April 2024. The Israeli military announced that an airstrike by Israeli jets during the night had killed Hezbollah commander Ali Ahmed Hussein, in the Sultaniyeh region of southern Lebanon on 08 April. (Photo by EPA/EFE/Stringer)





A woman stands in front of the house where two women from the same family were killed on April 23 in a reported Israeli strike in the southern Lebanese village of Hanin, on April 25, 2024. Lebanon's Iran-backed Hezbollah movement said it fired a fresh barrage of rockets across the border on April 24 after a strike blamed on Israel killed the two civilians. (Photo by Hassan Fneich/AFP Photo)





A cat sits on the window of a office as students from the Lebanese American University (LAU) chant slogans against Israel and wave Lebanese and Palestinian flags during a protest inside their university campus to demand a ceasefire and show support for Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, in Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, April 30, 2024. Scores of students held pro-Palestinian protests at some of the largest universities in Beirut Tuesday expressing anger over the rising deaths during the Israel-Hamas war. (Photo by Hassan Ammar/AP Photo)





Supporters of the Lebanese Communist party take a selfie, as they march during a demonstration to mark International Labor Day or May Day, in Beirut, Wednesday, May 1, 2024. Despite the tense situation and ongoing clashes on Lebanon's border with Israel over the past seven months, hundreds of protesters marched through Beirut's streets to mark International Workers' Day. (Photo by Hussein Malla/AP Photo)





A student holds a placard during a protest inside the American University of Beirut to show support for Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, in Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, May 7, 2024. The protesting university students demanded an end to Israel's war in Gaza and its continued attacks in Lebanon, as well as the American University of Beirut to end economic ties with companies that they say are “complicit in the Israeli occupation of Palestinians”. (Photo by Bilal Hussein/AP Photo)





A Syrian refugee woman sits inside a car, as she prepares to go back home to Syria as a part of a voluntary return, in the eastern Lebanese border town of Arsal, Tuesday, May 14, 2024. Hundreds of Syrians refugees left a remote northeastern Lebanese town back to Syria in a convoy, amid a surge in anti-refugee sentiment in the small, crisis-hit country. Lebanese officials for years has urged the international community to resettle the refugees in other countries or help them return to Syria. (Photo by Hussein Malla/AP Photo)





A man puts up a banner depicting late Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi who was killed along with other officials in a helicopter crash, at the Iranian embassy in Beirut, Lebanon on May 22, 2024. (Photo by Mohamed Azakir/Reuters)





Protesters clash with troops and riot police during a demonstration near the Egyptian embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, Monday, May 27, 2024, in solidarity with the Palestinian people in Gaza and demanding the Egyptian authorities open the Rafah border crossing between Egypt and the Gaza Strip. (Photo by Bilal Hussein/AP Photo)





A Lebanese woman smokes a water pipe as another woman flashes a victory sign, while standing on the rubble of a destroyed house that was hit by an Israeli airstrike, in Aita al-Shaab, a Lebanese border village with Israel, south Lebanon, June 29, 2024. (Photo by Mohammed Zaatari/AP Photo)





A man smokes a water pipe sitting on a bench with his pet parrot at the Ain al Mreisseh seaside promenade in Beirut on June 28, 2024. (Photo by Joseph Eid/AFP Photo)





Lebanese shepherd Yussef Halimeh, removes dead goats after an Israeli airstrike hit a house and killed hundreds of goats on their livestock pen, in Toura mountain, south Lebanon, Monday, July 8, 2024. The strikes come as tensions continue to boil between Lebanon's Hezbollah group an the Israeli military along the Lebanon-Israel border over the past month, and as talks for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip between Hamas and Israel are set to resume. (Photo by Mohammed Zaatari/AP Photo)





Smoke billows from the site of an Israeli airstrike in the southern Lebanese village of Jibbain on July 11, 2024. Israel and Lebanon's Hezbollah, an ally of Palestinian militant group Hamas, have exchanged near daily cross-border fire since the Gaza war erupted on October 7, stoking fears of an escalation into all-out war. (Photo by Kawnat Haju/AFP Photo)





Men playing beach volley ball on a sweltering hot day, at the Ramlet al-Baida public beach in Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, July 16, 2024. (Photo by Hassan Ammar/AP Photo)





A man rinses with fresh water after playing beach volley ball on a sweltering hot day, at the Ramlet al-Baida public beach in Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, July 16, 2024. (Photo by Hassan Ammar/AP Photo)