Overview

• Salah Abu-Hussein, an Arab citizen from the village of Rumana, was returned Thursday after about a year in Lebanese detention.
• Lebanese authorities handed him to Israel’s hostages and missing coordinator, Gal Hirsch, at the closed Rosh Hanikra crossing with International Committee of the Red Cross assistance.
• Israeli officials said no prisoners were released in exchange, and security agencies are investigating how he entered Lebanon.
• Lebanon’s General Security said he crossed the border illegally to leave Israel, and that no security suspicions were found against him.
• Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called the return “a positive step and a sign of things to come,” while a Lebanese prisoners’ committee condemned the handover.