BEIRUT (Dispatches) -- A local official in Lebanon and state media said an Israeli strike Sunday on a southern village martyred several family members, with Hezbollah fighters announcing rocket fire in retaliation.
The Zionist regime and Lebanon’s Hezbollah group have exchanged regular cross-border fire since the unprecedented October 7 operation by Palestinian fighters in southern territories occupied by Israel. 
Fighting has intensified in recent weeks, with Hezbollah stepping up its missile and drone attacks on Israeli military positions in northern occupied territories. 
Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency said the strike carried out by Israeli aircraft in Mais al-Jabal martyred “four people from a single family”.
It identified them as a man, a woman and their children aged 12 and 21, and said two other people were wounded.
A Lebanese security source, requesting anonymity as they were not authorized to speak to the media, confirmed the strike killed “four civilians”.
Hezbollah in a statement said it fired “dozens of Katyusha and Falaq rockets” at Kiryat Shmona in northern occupied territories “in response to the horrific crime that the Israeli enemy committed in Mais al-Jabal”.
It later said it fired dozens more Katyusha rockets at Israeli troops and vehicles across the Lebanese border “as part of the response” to the Mais al-Jabal strike.
The Zionist military told AFP that “about 40 rockets were identified crossing” from Lebanon.
Hezbollah has repeatedly declared that only a ceasefire in Gaza will put an end to its operations against Zionist targets, which it says are in support of Gazans and its ally Hamas.
In Lebanon, at least 390 people have been martyred in nearly seven months of Israeli violence.  
Meanwhile, Bahraini-based resistance group Al-Ashtar Brigades claimed responsibility for a drone attack on the Israeli-controlled port of Eilat (Umm Al-Rashrash). 
According to a statement, the operation which took place on May 2 targeted vital infrastructure in the port, marking the first such operation by the group.
The reports come after an earlier report on Thursday, that the faction claimed responsibility for a drone attack on April 27, targeting the headquarters of an Israeli company Trucknet, which is based in Eilat. 
The group said the targets had been hit to support the people of Gaza in their struggle against the occupation entity. The statement also said operations against Israel will continue unless there is a stop to the war and blockade on Gaza.
Over the past months, Eilat has been targeted by other factions within the Axis of Resistance, notably Yemen’s Ansarallah-aligned armed forces, Lebanon’s Hezbollah and the Islamic Resistance in Iraq.
The naval blockade imposed by Ansarallah has disrupted activity in the port to such an extent that in March, Gideon Golber, the CEO of Eilat Port, was quoted as saying: “Every month, we had between 12 and 13 ships coming and going, and now we have 0.”
Named after a companion of Imam Ali, Malik al-Ashtar, the Al-Ashtar Brigades, the paramilitary branch of the Islamic Resistance in Bahrain, operates outside of the Bahraini kingdom.
Fighters from the Iraqi anti-terror resistance groups also launched