Israel says citizen released from Lebanon

JERUSALEM: The Israeli prime minister's office said on Thursday that Israeli citizen Saleh Abu-Hussein, who was detained in Lebanon for about a year, returned to Israel following negotiations with the help of the Red Cross. The office said that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu welcomed the citizen's return. "This is a positive step and a sign of things to come," it wrote on social media platform X. The prime minister's office did not disclose details on the circumstances of the Abu-Hussein's detention.