Lebanon: Eight people die in Israeli drone strikes

By  News On Air   Jun 02, 2026

Eight people died in Israeli drone strikes in southern Lebanon today. Israel threatened yesterday to strike Beirut’s southern suburbs, causing panic in the Lebanese capital as thousands fled to safer areas and Hezbollah fired rockets at northern Israel.

Israeli forces recently made their deepest incursion into Lebanon in 26 years, but Beirut has been mostly spared over the past six weeks, apart from two targeted attacks on the city’s southern suburbs in the last month. Lebanon’s State-run National News Agency today reported that an Israeli drone strike hit a car on the road linking the southern town of Marjayoun with the city of Nabatiyeh, killing a dentist along with his daughter and son. It reported that two Syrians also killed in a drone attack in Jibchit village.