Three farmers detained by Israel in Lebanon, village leader says
The detentions were reported to the US-led International Monitoring and Implementation Mechanism but Israeli military has not commented.
Three Lebanese farmers have been held by Israeli forces in southern Lebanon, the village leader said.
Issa Abedelaal told the BBC that Israeli forces phoned the three farmers on their mobile phones and told them to come to a location, where they were detained and taken away.
The incident followed the entry of Israeli forces into the village of Halta in Hasbaya province, which is inside a roughly 600 sq km area that Israel still occupies.
The detentions were reported to the US-led International Monitoring and Implementation Mechanism, which is responsible for security coordination between Israel and Lebanon. The Israeli military has not responded to a request for comment.
A few hours later, Israel freed another Lebanese civilian held in the country, in what is believed to be the first known civilian release since US-mediated talks between Israel and Lebanon started in April.
Malek Ghazi was transferred to the Lebanese army by the International Committee of the Red Cross, while Israel says four more Lebanese civilians are due to be released on Friday.
More than 30 Lebanese are still thought to be in Israeli custody, as negotiations between the two countries remain deadlocked over a framework involving Hezbollah's disarmament, an Israeli withdrawal and the deployment of the Lebanese army in the south.
Ghazi was handed over at the Naqoura crossing before being taken to an army intelligence facility in Tyre for a medical examination.
His family says he vanished last October after leaving home to exercise.
Israel's prime minister's office said four other civilians set to be released on Friday had been questioned and found to have no ties to armed groups.
Lebanon's Prime Minister Nawaf Salam welcomed Ghazi's release and thanked the US for helping secure it.
He said the government would keep working for the release of all Lebanese detainees, information about those still missing, and a full Israeli withdrawal from Lebanese territory.
The detainee issue is part of broader US-mediated negotiations, alongside separate efforts to recover the remains of Lebanese Jewish community leaders abducted and killed during the country's civil war.
The talks also include a framework agreed in mid-June, under which Hezbollah is expected to disarm, the Lebanese army is to deploy in the south and Israeli forces are to withdraw gradually, starting with designated "pilot zones".
But the process has advanced little, with Israel questioning the role of the Lebanese army and disagreements over how compliance would be checked.
Hezbollah rejects the talks and the pilot-zone concept outright.
The two sides have still not set a date for the eighth round of talks.
Israel has continued attacks on southern Lebanon, and officials say the Israeli military has been expanding its positions.
Lebanese authorities said 11 people were killed in an Israeli air strike on the region in August. Israel's Defense Forces (IDF) said at the time that it had killed a Hezbollah commander in the strike, following an attack against Israeli soldiers.