Damage caused by the Israeli strike on Choueifat, south of Beirut, on May 28, 2026. (Credit: Mohammad Yassine/L’Orient-Le Jour)
Israeli strikes across Lebanon killed at least 25 people Thursday, according to a tally by L’Orient-Le Jour based on information from our correspondents and figures released by the Health Ministry. Numerous injuries were also reported.
According to the latest official figures published Thursday by the Health Ministry, at least 3,324 people have been killed and 10,027 wounded in Israeli attacks since the resumption of the war on March 2.
The Ministry recorded 55 additional deaths and 187 injuries over the past 24 hours. Its previous toll stood at 3,269 killed and 9,840 wounded.
Here are the details of the deadly Israeli strikes carried out today:
A Bangladeshi migrant worker, his wife, and their son died of their wounds after an Israeli drone strike targeted them Thursday morning while they were riding a motorcycle in Jibsheet, in the Nabatieh district.
The deaths bring the provisional toll from Israeli strikes carried out Thursday to at least 23 people killed, according to our count, in addition to numerous wounded.
The toll includes:
- Five people killed in Saida in a strike on an apartment building in the Qiaya neighborhood.
- Six people killed in Adloun, in the Saida district, in a strike on a car.
- Five people killed in Sour, including three members of the same family in their apartment and two people riding a scooter near a Lebanese Army base.
- Two people killed in Choueifat — a mother and her baby — in an assassination attempt claimed by Israel.
- Two people were killed in Deir Qanoun Ras al-Ain, near Sour, in another Israeli drone strike targeting a motorcycle.
- One person killed in Bazourieh, in the Sour district, while riding a scooter.
- A Lebanese soldier was killed in a drone strike on the Zifta-Deir al-Zahrani road.
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