Overview

• Israeli officials said no prisoners were released in exchange for Salah Abu-Hussein.
• Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called the return "a positive step and a sign of things to come."
• Israeli security agencies opened an investigation into how he crossed into Lebanon and was detained.
• Lebanese security and judicial officials, speaking anonymously, said he entered illegally over the land frontier and was apprehended.
• A Lebanese prisoners' advocacy group denounced the transfer, citing Lebanese citizens held in Israeli prisons.