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Thick black smoke billowed over Beirut on Wednesday as civil defense teams worked to extinguish fires following Israeli strikes on the Lebanese capital.

Ground footage showed damaged cars and rubble at the site of a strike, with flames of fire rising.

Even as Israel paused its attacks on Iran, it escalated its parallel war in Lebanon, launching what it described as its biggest strikes yet, which Lebanon's health minister said had caused hundreds of casualties.

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Ground footage shows smoke-filled aftermath of Israeli strikes on Beirut