ICARDA lab employee Bilal Inaty cuts a lentil plant in order to test it for various diseases at the ICARDA research station in the village of Terbol in Lebanon's Bekaa valley, on Dec. 21, 2022. Dalia Khamissy for NPR hide caption
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Lebanese activists gather outside a local bank in support of Abed Soubra, who stormed the branch demanding access to his own accounts, in Beirut on Sept 16. Lebanese police detained Soubra after he entered the bank and, armed with a gun, demanded access to his deposits. It was the third such incident in Lebanon that week alone. Marwan Naamani/Picture Alliance/Getty Images hide caption
People in Lebanon are robbing banks and staging sit-ins to access their own savings
Wednesday
Darine Al-Ahmar (left), who directs a primary care health center in Douris, Lebanon, and Josette Najjar, with the Lebanese branch of the Mérieux Foundation, have seen the number of cholera cases rise around their region. Ari Daniel/NPR hide caption
Amid vaccine shortages, Lebanon faces its first cholera outbreak in three decades
Wednesday
An Israeli soldier walks past a sign at a tourist site at the Israeli side of the border with Lebanon in Rosh Hanikra, Israel, on Tuesday. Amir Levy/Getty Images hide caption
For Israel and Lebanon, a U.S.-mediated deal settles a long-running maritime dispute
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Lebanese Red Cross ambulances, carrying the bodies of people who died in a boat sinking, cross between Lebanon and Syria on Friday. Bilal Hussein/AP hide caption
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Sali Hafez (center), accompanied by activists, looks at her phone on Wednesday after breaking into a BLOM Bank branch in Beirut, Lebanon, brandishing what she later said was a toy pistol and taking $13,000 from her trapped savings account. Hussein Malla/AP hide caption
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Bassam al-Sheikh Hussein looks through the bank's window in Beirut, Lebanon during the hostage standoff on Thursday. He surrended after several hours of negotiations in exchange for a portion of his savings. Hussein Malla/AP hide caption
A man who held up a bank demanding his own money becomes an unlikely hero
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FILE - An Israeli Navy vessel patrols in the Mediterranean Sea, while Lebanon and Israel are being called to resume indirect talks over their disputed maritime border with U.S. mediation, off the southern town of Naqoura, Monday, June 6, 2022. Mohammad Zaatari/AP hide caption
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A baby receives care in the neonatal intensive care unit of the government hospital in Tripoli, Lebanon. Because of the lack of prenatal care amid the country's massive economic crisis, medical staff members say more newborns are born sick and weak. From time to time, when parents don't have the funds to pay for additional care, they go home — and leave their infant stranded at the hospital. Arezou Rezvani/NPR hide caption
Lebanon's hospitals are running out of medicine and staff in ongoing economic crisis
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Lebanese Interior Minister Bassam Mawlawi speaks during a press conference about Sunday's parliamentary elections, at the interior ministry in Beirut, Lebanon, on Monday. Hassan Ammar/AP hide caption
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People line up to vote during parliamentary elections in Beirut, Lebanon Sunday, May 15, 2022. Hussein Malla/AP hide caption
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A circuit breaker of an electric generator that supplied homes with power in 2019 is pictured in the Lebanese capital Beirut's southern suburbs. Anwar Amro/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
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Tracy and Paul Naggear, the parents of 3-year-old Alexandra, who was killed in last year's massive blast, raise their fists during a protest outside the home of caretaker Interior Minister Mohamed Fehmi, in Beirut, July 13. A year after the deadly blast, families of the victims are seeking justice for their loved ones. Bilal Hussein/AP hide caption
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Marine biology student Ranim Tahhan, 21, pictured left, and another volunteer work to clean Tyre beach from the pollution caused by an oil spill in the eastern Mediterranean Sea. Ruth Sherlock/NPR hide caption