The Hezbollah resistance movement launched rocket and drone attacks on positions in the Israeli-occupied territories in retaliation for a deadly attack by the regime’s military on southern Lebanon carried out early on Sunday.
In a statement released on Sunday, Hezbollah said that its fighters had targeted the Meron settlement in the occupied territories with Katyusha rockets.
The group also launched a drone attack on Israeli artillery launchers in the Arar barracks and fired rockets at a gathering of the regime’s soldiers east of the Birkat Risha outpost.
The operation came “in response to the enemy’s attacks on the steadfast southern villages and civilian homes, the most recent of which was the attack on … Khirbet Selm and the martyrdom” of five people, it said.
A family of four, including a father, his pregnant wife and their two sons, and another individual, were killed in the Israeli strike on a house in the Khirbet Selm village in southern Lebanon on Sunday, Lebanon’s official National News Agency reported.
The air raid also wounded at least nine others who lived nearby.
Al Mayadeen’s correspondent in the South of #Lebanon reported an Israeli raid on the village of Khirbet Selem, killing several civilians and injuring others.
The National News Agency announced that the raid killed five martyrs: A father, his two children, his wife, and one… pic.twitter.com/oIDqCeiWoK
— Al Mayadeen English (@MayadeenEnglish) March 9, 2024
Also in its statement, Hezbollah said that it had conducted the operation in solidarity with the “steadfast Palestinian people” in the Gaza Strip and their “brave and honorable resistance” against a genocidal Israeli war.
The Israeli military said some 37 rockets were fired in two volleys from Lebanon at Meron, claiming that its so-called Iron Dome system had intercepted seven of the rockets.
Hezbollah and Israel have been exchanging fire since early October, shortly after the occupying regime launched its bloody war on the besieged Gaza following a surprise operation by the Palestinian Hamas resistance movement.
The resistance group’s constant rocket fire has prompted tens of thousands of Israeli settlers to flee from northern areas of the occupied territories.
Hezbollah has vowed to keep up its retaliatory operations as long as the usurping entity continues its aggression against Gaza, which has so far killed at least 30,960 Palestinians, mostly women and children, and injured 72,524 others.
