Grocery stores stormed by desperate people in search of powdered milk and sugar.
Roads blocked by angry protesters.
Increasingly, the Lebanese military is being called in to break up violent protests.
But even the soldiers who are supposed to guarantee security when crime in the country has increased have been hit hard by the crisis economy.
Recently, Lebanon's Army Chief Joseph Aoun gave a speech in which he said that the country's soldiers are going hungry.
Do they want an army or not?
Do you want the army to stand on its own two feet or not?
They do not care, "he said with a clear address to the country's politicians.
Anonymous soldier: We suffer as much as the protesters
A member of the security forces who speaks anonymously to SVT says that he has found it more difficult to support himself.
- A couple of years ago, my salary was worth 1200 dollars.
Now it is worth 120 dollars, he says
- There are protests everywhere and we are always out on the streets.
There is a lot of pressure.
But at the same time, we suffer as much as those who demonstrate, he says.
Lebanon has been hit by a series of economic and political crises since major popular protests against corruption and misrule broke out in the autumn of 2019.
Unemployment has risen at the same time as the currency has lost 85 percent of its value.
The economic collapse is the biggest threat to Lebanon's stability since the country's fifteen-year civil war.
Half the population is considered poor
In a country where the majority of all food is imported, the crashed currency has had a direct impact on people's everyday lives.
Today, more than half of the population is considered poor.
Recently, France and Turkey have donated food parcels to the Lebanese army.
There have been unconfirmed reports on social media that soldiers have dropped out, something that according to Lebanese law is punishable by imprisonment.
- If I were not a soldier, I would demonstrate on the street.
But we can not protest because it is forbidden, says the anonymous soldier to SVT.