Israel strikes southern Lebanon and tightens northern defenses after IED wounds two soldiers

Israel has bombed villages across southern Lebanon and reinforced its northern front after an improvised explosive device wounded two of its soldiers in the security zone.

• Lebanon's National News Agency reported Israeli shelling of Zouatar al-Sharqiya, Miffdoun, and Mansouri, with phosphorus bombs burning olive and citrus fields around Majdel Zoun.
• Army spokesperson Ella Waweya said a Hezbollah-planted IED exploded at an Israeli engineering vehicle in the security zone, wounding two soldiers, and that the military attacked Hezbollah infrastructure in response.
• Israel's public broadcaster said the northern alert level rests on military assessments that Hezbollah is reorganizing and rearming, not on a specific warning.
• Israeli forces carried out a series of detonations in Majdel Zoun and shelled Aita al-Jabal in southern Lebanon.