The blast left a scene described by one Beirut newspaper as looking like an apocalypse With images of the city before and after showing the extent of the devastation One man, Alan Chaoul ...

Scenes of chaos engulfed Beirut as Israel unleashed its largest bombing campaign in recent memory, hours before a ceasefire ... million residents just moments after US president Joe Biden ...

but I never saw something like this before," baker Hekmat Kaai said. "I am wondering how cheap a human being is in this country. Where are we going? Beirut was completely destroyed in an instant." ...

Also before dawn on Saturday ... Beirut strikes show four columns of smoke Large columns of smoke rose over Beirut after an Israeli strike Friday evening, video of the city shows.