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 ...

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." ...

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 ...

These were the first sentences uttered by Lebanese-Australian man Ghaneem Faddoul when he spoke with SBS Arabic24 on Wednesday, just hours after a massive blast ripped through Beirut’s port.