Lebanon’s Hezbollah resistance movement said its fighters have “planted explosive devices in the Tal Ismail area” inside Lebanon, detonating them after Israeli soldiers “crossed the border”.

Israel’s army said earlier that four soldiers were wounded overnight in an explosion “in the area of the northern border” but did not specify on which side of the frontier. One of the soldiers was “severely injured”, it said.

The deadly violence flaring between Israel and Hezbollah has largely been contained to the border area. Tens of thousands of civilians have fled their homes on both sides of the border.