Lebanon’s Iran-backed Hezbollah group has said it launched “more than 60” rockets at Israeli military positions in retaliation for overnight air strikes on the country’s east, AFP reports.

Hezbollah fighters “launched a missile attack with more than 60 Katyusha rockets” on several Israeli military positions in the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights, the group said in a statement.

The strikes were “in response to the Israeli enemy’s attacks last night on the Bekaa region” in eastern Lebanon’s Baalbek area, the group added.

Earlier Thursday, Lebanese state-run media reported an overnight Israeli air raid on the Baalbek area, where Hezbollah holds sway, hours after the group launched an attack deep into Israeli territory.

“The outskirts of the eastern Lebanon mountain range, at midnight, was subjected to five enemy raids,” Lebanon’s official National News Agency (NNA) said.

The Israeli strikes “slightly injured a citizen” and caused fires, the NNA added.A source close to Hezbollah told AFP that one of the strikes “hit a Hezbollah military camp”.

An Israeli army spokesman told AFP: “I can confirm that an airstrike was indeed conducted deep in Lebanon against a terror target related to Hezbollah’s precision missile project”.