Two Israeli soldiers killed in explosion in Lebanon

The Israeli military yesterday said that two of its soldiers were killed in an explosion in southern Lebanon in the first Israeli deaths since the implementation of a truce between Israel and the Iran-backed Lebanese militant group Hezbollah in June.Four other soldiers were seriously wounded, the military said.The deaths had been reported by Israeli media a day earlier. A man removes a destroyed scooter from the debris of a house that was hit in an Israeli airstrike in Burj al-Shamali, Lebanon, yesterday. Photo: AP An Israeli military official, who spoke on condition of anonymity in accordance with the army’s policy, said that “an explosion was detonated” when the soldiers entered a site in the village of Majdal Zoun and that the nature of the explosive was under review.The Israeli army on