BEIRUT (Dispatches) -- 
Hezbollah on Saturday targeted an Israeli military industries base north of the port city of Haifa with a rocket barrage.
In a statement, the Lebanese resistance movement said the attack on Zevulun base was in support of the Palestinian people in Gaza and in defense of Lebanon.
Hezbollah also targeted the city of Safed in northern occupied territories with rockets.
In a separate statement, the group said it had shot down an Israeli Hermes 450 drone with a surface-to-air missile in Lebanon’s Nabatieh governorate where the downed drone fell.
Later in the day, Hezbollah said it had targeted the Israeli settlements of Metulla and Maalot Tarshiha with rocket barrages.
It also said the Zionist regime’s Meron air operations command base was hit with rockets.
Hezbollah has said it will continue targeting Israeli settlements and military sites until the occupying regime agrees to a ceasefire in Gaza.
The two sides have been exchanging fire on a daily basis since October last year. Tensions have escalated after Israel invaded southern Lebanon late in September.
Lebanon’s health ministry said Saturday seven people including two children were martyred in Israeli  strikes on the southern city of Tyre a day earlier, with rescuers still searching for missing people under the rubble.
“Israeli enemy strikes on the city of Tyre killed seven people including two girls, and injured 46 others,” the ministry said, adding that body parts had been found and will be “identified with DNA testing”.
It added that rubble was being cleared following the strikes as part of ongoing efforts to locate missing persons.
The ministry had on Friday reported a toll of three killed and 30 injured in the strikes.
Photos showed rescuers carrying bodies on stretchers amid the wreckage, as rubble and twisted metal were strewn across the street.
Earlier on Saturday, Lebanon’s official National News Agency had said the deadly strikes targeted three buildings in the coastal city, causing “massive damage to dozens of homes”.
The NNA also said “enemy fighter jets” destroyed two heritage houses in the southern city of Nabatiyeh.
Israel intensified its air campaign on Lebanon in September and later sent in ground troops after a year of cross-border clashes.
More than 3,110 people have been martyred in Lebanon since the cross-border exchanges began, according to the Lebanese health ministry.