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FILE - Boys salute during the funeral procession of Hezbollah members who were killed when a handheld device exploded, in the southern suburbs of Beirut, Thursday, Sept. 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File)

FILE - Boys salute during the funeral procession of Hezbollah members who were killed when a handheld device exploded, in the southern suburbs of Beirut, Thursday, Sept. 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File)

FILE - Residents rush to help injured children moments after a rocket attack hit a soccer field in the Druze town of Majdal Shams in the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights, Saturday, July 27, 2024. (AP Photo/Hassan Shams, File)

FILE - Residents rush to help injured children moments after a rocket attack hit a soccer field in the Druze town of Majdal Shams in the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights, Saturday, July 27, 2024. (AP Photo/Hassan Shams, File)

FILE - Sivan, mother of Israeli soldier, Sergeant Dolev Malca, was killed during Israel's ground operation in the Gaza Strip, screams as she salutes her son during his funeral in Shlomi, northern Israel, on the border with Lebanon, Sunday, March 3, 2024. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit, File)

FILE - Sivan, mother of Israeli soldier, Sergeant Dolev Malca, was killed during Israel's ground operation in the Gaza Strip, screams as she salutes her son during his funeral in Shlomi, northern Israel, on the border with Lebanon, Sunday, March 3, 2024. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit, File)

FILE - The Israeli Iron Dome air defense system fires to intercept an attack from Lebanon over the Galilee region as seen from the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights, on Aug. 4, 2024. (AP Photo/Leo Correa, File)

FILE - The Israeli Iron Dome air defense system fires to intercept an attack from Lebanon over the Galilee region as seen from the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights, on Aug. 4, 2024. (AP Photo/Leo Correa, File)

FILE - People take cover in a bomb shelter as a siren sounds a warning of incoming rockets fired from Lebanon, in Safed, northern Israel, Thursday, Sept. 26, 2024. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit, File)

FILE - People take cover in a bomb shelter as a siren sounds a warning of incoming rockets fired from Lebanon, in Safed, northern Israel, Thursday, Sept. 26, 2024. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit, File)

FILE - Coloring pencils and books are scattered on the ground outside a building that was hit by an Israeli airstrike in Beirut's southern suburbs, Thursday, Sept. 26, 2024. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar, File)

FILE - Coloring pencils and books are scattered on the ground outside a building that was hit by an Israeli airstrike in Beirut's southern suburbs, Thursday, Sept. 26, 2024. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar, File)

FILE - A protester burns an American flag as others shout slogans against Israel and the United States during a protest in solidarity with the Palestinian people in Gaza in Beirut, Lebanon, Saturday, March 2, 2024. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar, File)

FILE - A protester burns an American flag as others shout slogans against Israel and the United States during a protest in solidarity with the Palestinian people in Gaza in Beirut, Lebanon, Saturday, March 2, 2024. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar, File)

FILE - Flames and smoke rise from an Israeli airstrike in Dahiyeh, Beirut, Lebanon, Sunday, Oct. 6, 2024. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein, FIle)

FILE - Flames and smoke rise from an Israeli airstrike in Dahiyeh, Beirut, Lebanon, Sunday, Oct. 6, 2024. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein, FIle)

FILE - Syrians carry their luggage as they cross on foot into Syria through a crater caused by an Israeli airstrike to cut the road between the Lebanese and the Syrian checkpoints, at the Masnaa crossing, in the eastern Bekaa Valley, Lebanon, Friday, Oct. 4, 2024. (AP Photo/Samer Husseini, File)

FILE - Syrians carry their luggage as they cross on foot into Syria through a crater caused by an Israeli airstrike to cut the road between the Lebanese and the Syrian checkpoints, at the Masnaa crossing, in the eastern Bekaa Valley, Lebanon, Friday, Oct. 4, 2024. (AP Photo/Samer Husseini, File)

FILE - Israeli shelling hit an area in southern Lebanon as seen from northern Israel, Monday, Sept. 30, 2024. (AP Photo/Leo Correa, File)

FILE - Israeli shelling hit an area in southern Lebanon as seen from northern Israel, Monday, Sept. 30, 2024. (AP Photo/Leo Correa, File)

FILE - Lebanese and Palestinian men hold portraits of Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, as they shout slogans during a protest in the southern port city of Sidon, Lebanon, Saturday, Sept. 28, 2024. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari, File)

FILE - Lebanese and Palestinian men hold portraits of Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, as they shout slogans during a protest in the southern port city of Sidon, Lebanon, Saturday, Sept. 28, 2024. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari, File)

FILE - People take cover next to a public bomb shelter as a siren sounds a warning of incoming rockets fired from Lebanon, in Safed, northern Israel, Sunday, Sept. 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit, File)

FILE - People take cover next to a public bomb shelter as a siren sounds a warning of incoming rockets fired from Lebanon, in Safed, northern Israel, Sunday, Sept. 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit, File)

FILE - Volunteers of the Russian Cultural Center entertain displaced children at a school in Beirut, Lebanon, Thursday, Oct. 3, 2024, after fleeing the Israeli airstrikes in the south. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein, File)

FILE - Volunteers of the Russian Cultural Center entertain displaced children at a school in Beirut, Lebanon, Thursday, Oct. 3, 2024, after fleeing the Israeli airstrikes in the south. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein, File)

FILE - A woman reads the Quran at the site of the assassination of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in Beirut's southern suburbs, Sunday, Sept. 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar, File)

FILE - A woman reads the Quran at the site of the assassination of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in Beirut's southern suburbs, Sunday, Sept. 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar, File)

FILE - An Israeli tank maneuvers in northern Israel near the Israel-Lebanon border, Monday, Sept. 30, 2024. (AP Photo/Baz Ratner, File)

FILE - An Israeli tank maneuvers in northern Israel near the Israel-Lebanon border, Monday, Sept. 30, 2024. (AP Photo/Baz Ratner, File)

FILE - Rescue workers and people search for victims at the site of an Israeli airstrike in Beirut, Lebanon, early Saturday, Nov. 23, 2024. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein, File)

FILE - Rescue workers and people search for victims at the site of an Israeli airstrike in Beirut, Lebanon, early Saturday, Nov. 23, 2024. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein, File)

FILE - Tents set up as temporary shelters by displaced families fleeing the Israeli airstrikes in the south and Dahiyeh, are seen along the Ramlet al-Baida public beach in Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday Oct. 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein, File)

FILE - Tents set up as temporary shelters by displaced families fleeing the Israeli airstrikes in the south and Dahiyeh, are seen along the Ramlet al-Baida public beach in Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday Oct. 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein, File)

FILE - A man looks from a damaged building a day after it was hit by a rocket fired from Lebanon, in Ramat Gan, central Israel, Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty, File)

FILE - A man looks from a damaged building a day after it was hit by a rocket fired from Lebanon, in Ramat Gan, central Israel, Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty, File)

FILE - An Israeli flag stands next to destroyed buildings on an area in southern Lebanon as seen from northern Israel, Monday, Nov. 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Leo Correa, File)

FILE - An Israeli flag stands next to destroyed buildings on an area in southern Lebanon as seen from northern Israel, Monday, Nov. 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Leo Correa, File)

FILE - Families sleep on Beirut's corniche after fleeing the Israeli airstrikes in Beirut's southern suburb, Lebanon, Monday, Sept. 30, 2024. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar, File)

FILE - Families sleep on Beirut's corniche after fleeing the Israeli airstrikes in Beirut's southern suburb, Lebanon, Monday, Sept. 30, 2024. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar, File)

FILE - Manal Jaafar, centre. reacts as she hugs a photo of her husband Rabih Maamari, a cameraman at pan-Arab TV network Al-Mayadeen who was killed by an Israeli strike, during his funeral procession in the southern Beirut suburb of Dahiyeh, Lebanon, Wednesday, Nov. 22, 2023. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein, File)

FILE - Manal Jaafar, centre. reacts as she hugs a photo of her husband Rabih Maamari, a cameraman at pan-Arab TV network Al-Mayadeen who was killed by an Israeli strike, during his funeral procession in the southern Beirut suburb of Dahiyeh, Lebanon, Wednesday, Nov. 22, 2023. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein, File)

FILE - People take cover as a siren warns of incoming rockets during the funeral of Alexei Popov, who was killed during a rocket attack fired from Lebanon last weekend, at the Tel Regev cemetery in the outskirts of Haifa, northern Israel, Monday, Oct. 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Leo Correa, File)

FILE - People take cover as a siren warns of incoming rockets during the funeral of Alexei Popov, who was killed during a rocket attack fired from Lebanon last weekend, at the Tel Regev cemetery in the outskirts of Haifa, northern Israel, Monday, Oct. 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Leo Correa, File)

FILE - People take cover on the side of the road as a siren sounds a warning of incoming missiles fired from Iran on a freeway in Shoresh, between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv in Israel Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2024.(AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg, File)

FILE - People take cover on the side of the road as a siren sounds a warning of incoming missiles fired from Iran on a freeway in Shoresh, between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv in Israel Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2024.(AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg, File)

FILE.- A journalist's car burns after an Israeli shell landed in a gathering of international journalists covering clashes in the Alma al-Shaab border village with Israel, south Lebanon, Friday, Oct. 13, 2023. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar,File)

FILE.- A journalist's car burns after an Israeli shell landed in a gathering of international journalists covering clashes in the Alma al-Shaab border village with Israel, south Lebanon, Friday, Oct. 13, 2023. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar,File)

FILE - Smoke rises from the site of an Israeli airstrike in Dahiyeh, Beirut, Lebanon, Thursday, Oct. 3, 2024. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar, File)

FILE - Smoke rises from the site of an Israeli airstrike in Dahiyeh, Beirut, Lebanon, Thursday, Oct. 3, 2024. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar, File)

FILE - A resident of a building damaged in an Israeli airstrike returns to collect his family's belongings at the site of Thursday's Israeli airstrike in Beirut, Lebanon, Friday, Oct. 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar, File)

FILE - A resident of a building damaged in an Israeli airstrike returns to collect his family's belongings at the site of Thursday's Israeli airstrike in Beirut, Lebanon, Friday, Oct. 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar, File)

FILE - A bomb dropped from an Israeli jet prepares to hit a building in Tayouneh, Beirut, Lebanon, Friday, Nov. 15, 2024. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar, File)

FILE - A bomb dropped from an Israeli jet prepares to hit a building in Tayouneh, Beirut, Lebanon, Friday, Nov. 15, 2024. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar, File)

FILE - An Israeli Apache helicopter fires a missile towards southern Lebanon as seen from northern Israel, Sunday, Oct. 13, 2024. (AP Photo/Leo Correa, File)

FILE - An Israeli Apache helicopter fires a missile towards southern Lebanon as seen from northern Israel, Sunday, Oct. 13, 2024. (AP Photo/Leo Correa, File)

FILE - A cat searches for food in a house burnt by rockets fired by Hezbollah in Kiryat Shmona, northern Israel, on the border with Lebanon, Thursday, Feb. 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit, File)

FILE - A cat searches for food in a house burnt by rockets fired by Hezbollah in Kiryat Shmona, northern Israel, on the border with Lebanon, Thursday, Feb. 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit, File)

FILE.- A young girl looks through a bus window as her family departs the northern Israeli city of Kiryat Shmona, Israel, Friday, Oct. 20, 2023 after the Israeli military announced it would evacuate the border city a day after three residents were injured by cross-border fire from militants in Lebanon. (AP Photo/Baz Ratner,File)

FILE.- A young girl looks through a bus window as her family departs the northern Israeli city of Kiryat Shmona, Israel, Friday, Oct. 20, 2023 after the Israeli military announced it would evacuate the border city a day after three residents were injured by cross-border fire from militants in Lebanon. (AP Photo/Baz Ratner,File)

FILE - Israeli soldiers are seen during a ground operation in southern Lebanon, near the border with Israel, Sunday, Oct. 13, 2024. (AP Photo/Sam McNeil, File)

FILE - Israeli soldiers are seen during a ground operation in southern Lebanon, near the border with Israel, Sunday, Oct. 13, 2024. (AP Photo/Sam McNeil, File)

FILE - Ivana Skakye, 2, a Lebanese child who is suffering from third-degree burns over 40 percent of her body following an Israeli airstrike last September near their home in Deir Qanoun al Nahr, a village in south Lebanon, raises her burned arms as she lies on a bed at the Geitaoui hospital where she is receiving treatment, in Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File)

FILE - Ivana Skakye, 2, a Lebanese child who is suffering from third-degree burns over 40 percent of her body following an Israeli airstrike last September near their home in Deir Qanoun al Nahr, a village in south Lebanon, raises her burned arms as she lies on a bed at the Geitaoui hospital where she is receiving treatment, in Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File)

FILE - Mourners carry a picture of slain Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah during the funeral procession of their relatives, in Maisara near the northern coastal town of Byblos, Lebanon, Monday, Oct. 14, 2024. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar, File)

FILE - Mourners carry a picture of slain Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah during the funeral procession of their relatives, in Maisara near the northern coastal town of Byblos, Lebanon, Monday, Oct. 14, 2024. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar, File)