Israeli troops will "very soon go into action" near the country's northern border with Lebanon, Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said, as tensions surge amid the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza.

Gallant told troops near the border with the besieged Gaza Strip that others were being deployed to Israel's north.

U.S. Ambassador to Lebanon Lisa Johnson has stressed that no member state of the five-nation group for Lebanon should carry out any initiative or move without prior coordination with the other members of the group, in an apparent reference to Qatar, informed sources said.

Johnson voiced her remarks during the latest meeting of the group’s ambassadors that was held at the residence of the Saudi envoy in Yarze, the sources told al-Joumhouria newspaper in remarks published Monday.

U.S. envoy Amos Hochstein is supposed to visit Lebanon in the coming period, carrying “some answers,” after he recently visited Paris and discussed the files of south Lebanon and a possible political settlement.

“In Paris, the French presented a proposal to Hochstein calling for the formation a four-party committee comprising the U.S., France, Israel and Lebanon, which would engage in negotiations aimed at ending the current disputes,” Kuwait’s al-Jarida newspaper reported.

U.S. mediator Amos Hochstein has said that he “will likely head back soon” to Lebanon and Israel as part of the efforts to prevent a bigger conflict between Israel and Hezbollah.

“But I think we, this is something we do every day, not just when we're in the region. We do this also when we're here,” Hochstein added, in an interview on CBS News.

Two Israeli soldiers were wounded Monday in a Hezbollah attack on a post in northern Israel.

Hezbollah said it has targeted the Branit barracks with Burkan missiles, inflicting casualties. Less than an hour after the attack, the Israeli army announced that two soldiers were injured.

Israeli warplane and drone strikes as well as artillery shelling on Sunday targeted several Lebanese southern towns near the frontier.

Hezbollah on Saturday announced a fresh wave of attacks on Israeli military posts across the border as Israeli attacks targeted some southern areas.

Caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati announced Friday that the Lebanese state has managed to “halt” the financial collapse and begin “serious recovery.”

“We’ve managed to halt the collapse and begin serious recovery. We have at Account 36 at the central bank more than LBP 100,000 billion and $1 billion, including $150 million in fresh dollars and 850 million lollars (Lebanese dollars),” Mikati said in his defense of the 2024 state budget in parliament.

Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz has met with his Italian counterpart Antonio Tajani in Jerusalem and asked for Rome’s assistance in finding a diplomatic solution to Hezbollah’s presence on Israel’s northern border.

The ambassadors of the five-nation group for Lebanon, who met Thursday at the Saudi envoy’s residence, have devised a roadmap for their meetings with Lebanese officials and leaders in a bid to re-activate the presidential election file, media reports said.