Lebanese Army Holds Mystery Man who Crossed Israeli Border
The Lebanese army detained an unidentified man who had crossed into the country through a barbed wire fence separating it from Israel on Tuesday, a security source said.
"He does not seem to speak Arabic and he does not have any identification on him," the source told Agence France Presse. "He could possibly be an Israeli citizen."
The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon said the Israeli army had informed it that a man had crossed the fence on Tuesday morning, but that it had no information on who he was or why he had done so.
"This morning UNIFIL was informed initially by the Israeli army about a man crossing the technical fence from Israel into Lebanese territory in the general area of Aytaroun," UNIFIL deputy spokesman Andrea Teneti told AFP.
Teneti said the man was located and detained by the Lebanese army around 3:00 pm on the basis of the description provided by Israel.
Aytaroun is a small village five kilometers from the border.
"We are still interrogating him to identify who he is and what he was doing," an army spokesman told AFP.