Sali Hafiz stormed a bank in Lebanon with her nephew's toy pistol and freed thousands of dollars from her family's deposits in order to pay for her sister's cancer treatment.
— TRT World (@trtworld) September 15, 2022
Labanese banks have frozen the savings of most depositors for almost three years amid an economic crisis pic.twitter.com/ImesgF3JIi
#PICTURES: Increasingly frustrated depositors break into banks in crisis-hit #Lebanon on Friday, demanding that they get their trapped savings https://t.co/t7eErwvT9O pic.twitter.com/6S0TemR5Ip
— Arab News (@arabnews) September 16, 2022
6 banks in Lebanon 🇱🇧 held up by customers for their own savings
— Saad Abedine (@SaadAbedine) September 16, 2022
6th bank robbery today, 8th since Wednesday
The incidents are just the latest examples of an increasingly frequent number of raids on banks in Lebanon by depositors desperate to retrieve trapped savings https://t.co/jTWGhNsjlM pic.twitter.com/pQwGeyXKjP
Banks in Lebanon are planning to shut down for three days amid increasing demands by angry depositors for their savings pic.twitter.com/VY1R6VWoFI
— Naija (@Naija_PR) September 16, 2022
A number of people nationwide in #Lebanon started storming banks, demanding their full control on their deposits. https://t.co/a2gCL9zjRG
— Saudi Gazette (@Saudi_Gazette) September 16, 2022
Lebanon 9 banks have been robbed in recent days by people wanting to recover their own money. The economic collapse started in 2019 continues to spiral out of control.#Lebanon #robbery #inflation pic.twitter.com/XtxizGQp5u
— We Are Protestors (@WeAreProtestors) September 16, 2022
🔴 #Lebanon: Another event of a bank holdup in two days. Multiple men broke into a bank, holding a gun to the head of a bank teller demanding their money be released from their accounts. This after Lebanon announced they will close all banks for 3 days starting Monday. pic.twitter.com/Vau7Tj1Jc3
— Chaim • حاييم • חיים (@ChaimSmierc) September 16, 2022
#Lebanon #Beirut Over 10 #banks have been robbed so far, 8 are hostages at the moment, the public is starting to gather asking for their money, an #emergency meeting of the Ministry of the Interior is underway. pic.twitter.com/jsmYgIyEjK
— Donato Yaakov Secchi (@doyaksec) September 16, 2022