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Israeli air strikes killed at least 57 civilians and a Hizbullah fighter on Wednesday, the single deadliest day of the war so far, as thousands of villagers continued to flee. The scale of civilian casualties was described by the UN human rights chief Wednesday as having the potential to result in charges of "war crimes"

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