Lebanon says 11 dead, including 2 children, in Israeli strikes

Published May 28, 2026 Updated May 28, 2026 02:59pm

Lebanon’s health ministry said that Israeli strikes on the country’s south killed at least 11 people, including two children, and wounded 21 others, AFP reports.

The ministry said in a statement that an airstrike on a building in the city of Sidon killed five people, including two women, and wounded 21, five of them children.

In another statement, it said “the Israeli enemy’s raid at dawn today targeting a vehicle in the town of Adloun, Sidon district, resulted in six martyrs, including two children, their mother and their father”.

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