Israel kills scores in Beirut as U.S. says Lebanon is not part of Iran truce

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An Israeli barrage killed at least 182 people and injured at least 890 across Lebanon, local authorities said, hours after the U.S.-Iran ceasefire took hold.

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April 8, 2026 at 7:09 p.m. EDT8 minutes ago

First responders at the site of a large airstrike in the Corniche al-Mazraa neighborhood of Beirut on Wednesday. (Guy Peterson/For The Washington Post)

BEIRUT — Israeli forces pounded Beirut on Wednesday, killing scores of people in an aerial barrage that Israel described as its largest in more than a month of war in Lebanon, just after the United States and Iran announced a two-week ceasefire.

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