Lebanon receives first detainee of five to be freed by Israel
Lebanon said its army had so far received a man returned by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), the first since Beirut called in August talks for the release of an initial group seized since the start of a 2024 Israel-Hezbollah war.
Lebanon has received the first of five detainees to be freed by Israel. The man was returned by the International Committee of the Red Cross, according to Le Monde English. Israel's office of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said it had decided to release five Lebanese civilians who were arrested in areas under Israeli army control in southern Lebanon, as Channel News Asia reported.
The release was brokered by the US and followed interrogations that found no terror links, Channel News Asia and The National UAE reported. The US-led International Monitoring and Implementation Mechanism was informed of the detentions, BBC News stated.
The handover took place on Thursday evening, with Lebanese reports saying the other four detainees were to be released on Friday morning, according to The National UAE. The move is linked to talks over the return of the bodies of Jewish community leaders killed in Lebanon in the 1980s, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said, as The National UAE reported.
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