A few hours after the announcement of a ceasefire between the US and Iran, around 100 airstrikes targeted several neighborhoods in central Beirut, its southern suburbs, and in towns and villages in eastern and southern Lebanon on Wednesday. At least 254 people were killed, according to the civil defense.

Air strikes hit the Tyre and Nabatieh areas hours after the US-Iran ceasefire was announced.

AP journalists saw charred bodies in vehicles and on the ground at one of Beirut’s busiest intersections in the central Corniche al Mazraa neighborhood, a mixed commercial and…