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 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, according to Press TV.

The group said it also had 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.