Kata'ib Hezbollah, a major Iraqi resistance group, says it will continue its “painful” attacks on American occupation forces as long as they remain in Iraq and the region.

The resistance group made the announcement in a statement on Wednesday after the US military launched airstrikes on facilities used by the Popular Mobilization Units (PMU), which is an umbrella group for resistance movements in Iraq, Press TV reported.

It said the United States had committed another crime by bombing the PMU headquarters in Jurf al-Sakhr, in central Iraq, and the western towns of al-Qa’im and Tarbil, which killed one and injured three people.

“Iraq's resistance will keep supporting Gaza and the Israeli-occupied Palestine while conducting painful attacks on US occupation forces until they are driven out of Iraq and the region,” the resistance group said.

The United States Central Command (CENTCOM) said on Wednesday’s unilateral strikes were a response to attacks on American bases, including the one carried out last week on Ain al-Asad in Iraq’s western province of Anbar. 

The Iraqi government condemned the US air raids, saying, "This unacceptable act … blatantly violates Iraq's sovereignty and leads to an irresponsible escalation.”

“We will treat these operations as acts of aggression and take necessary actions to preserve the lives and dignity of Iraqis on their land,” read a statement released by the office of Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani. In the past few months, Iraqi resistance forces have conducted dozens of strikes on the US-run military installations in both Iraq and Syria amid growing anti-US sentiments in the region over Washington’s unwavering support for Israel’s genocidal aggression against the Gaza Strip.