Israel's army said on Sunday that it had briefly held a Lebanese woman who crossed the border and then repatriated her, a detention Beirut denounced as an abduction.



The Lebanese army said that the woman, Nohad Dali, was taken on Saturday evening from Shebaa, a small disputed area that Israel regards as part of the Golan Heights, which it captured from Syria in 1967, but which Beirut says is Lebanese territory.

"An Israeli enemy patrol carried out the abduction of Nohad Dali," a Lebanese army statement said.The Israeli military said two shepherds had crossed the UN-demarcated border with Lebanon and that one of them was taken into custody by its troops."She was returned today," a military spokesman said.There was no immediate Lebanese confirmation of Dali's repatriation.A U.N. peacekeeping force is based on the Lebanon-Israel border. The last outright conflict there was a short war in 2006 between Israel and Lebanon's heavily armed, Iranian-backed Hezbollah group.Tensions between Israel and Hezbollah have heightened over the group's role in the Syrian civil war, where it has gained more experience and an increased arsenal fighting alongside President Bashar Assad as part of an Iran-backed alliance.Lebanon raised Dali's case with the UN peacekeepers, the Lebanese army statement said.

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`; document.getElementById("linkPremium").innerHTML = cont; (function (v, i){ });</s>Israel’s army said on Sunday that it had briefly held a Lebanese woman who crossed the border and then repatriated her, a detention Beirut denounced as an abduction.

The Lebanese army said that the woman, Nohad Dali, was taken on Saturday evening from Shebaa, a small disputed area that Israel regards as part of the Golan Heights, which it captured from Syria in 1967, but which Beirut says is Lebanese territory.

“An Israeli enemy patrol carried out the abduction of Nohad Dali,” a Lebanese army statement said.

The Israeli military said two shepherds had crossed the U.N.-demarcated border with Lebanon and that one of them was taken into custody by its troops.

There was no immediate Lebanese confirmation of Dali’s repatriation.

A U.N. peacekeeping force is based on the Lebanon-Israel border. The last outright conflict there was a short war in 2006 between Israel and Lebanon’s heavily armed, Iranian-backed Hezbollah group.

Tensions between Israel and Hezbollah have heightened over the group’s role in the Syrian civil war, where it has gained more experience and an increased arsenal fighting alongside President Bashar al-Assad as part of an Iran-backed alliance.

Lebanon raised Dali’s case with the U.N. peacekeepers, the Lebanese army statement said. Reuters</s>Lebanon’s army said late on Sunday that an Israel border patrol had seized a Lebanese woman in the Shebaa area and taken her across the frontier.

 “On April 28 at 8.30pm an Israeli enemy patrol carried out the abduction of Nohad Dali from the town of Shebaa and took her into occupied Palestinian territory,” said a Lebanese army command statement carried on Lebanon’s state news agency NNA.

 Israel’s army said that it had briefly held a Lebanese woman who crossed the border and then repatriated her, a detention Beirut denounced as an abduction. The Lebanese army said that the woman, Nohad Dali, was taken on Saturday evening from Shebaa, a small disputed area that Israel regards as part of the Golan Heights, which it captured from Syria in 1967, but which Beirut says is Lebanese territory. “An Israeli enemy patrol carried out the abduction of Nohad Dali,” a Lebanese army statement said. —Agencies</s>BEIRUT (Reuters) - Lebanon's army said late on Saturday that an Israel border patrol had seized a Lebanese woman in the Shebaa area and taken her across the frontier.

"On April 28 at 8.30pm an Israeli enemy patrol carried out the abduction of Nohad Dali from the town of Shebaa and took her into occupied Palestinian territory," said a Lebanese army command statement carried on Lebanon's state news agency NNA.

The Shebaa region includes a small disputed area that Israel regards as part of the Golan Heights, which it has occupied since capturing it from Syria in 1967, but which Lebanon says is part of its territory.

A U.N. peacekeeping force is based on the Lebanon-Israel border. The last outright conflict there was a short war in 2006 between Israel and Lebanon's heavily armed, Iranian-backed Hezbollah group.

Tensions between Israel and Hezbollah have heightened over the group's role in the Syrian civil war, where it has gained more experience and an increased arsenal fighting alongside President Bashar al-Assad as part of an Iran-backed alliance.

Lebanon has raised the seizure of Dali with the U.N. peacekeepers, the army statement said.

An Israeli army spokesman said: "I'm aware of this report and have nothing for you on it at this time."</s>The Israeli army on Sunday released a Lebanese woman its troops had abducted on Saturday.

“The Israeli occupation army this morning freed Lebanese citizen Nouhad Dilli and she was handed over to Lebanese Army intelligence agents via UNIFIL, in the Burkat al-Naqqar area west of the town of Shebaa,” the National News Agency reported.

The woman had been kidnapped Saturday from the al-Shahel area east of the border town of Shebaa.

“After coordination with the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL), the citizen Nouhad Dilli was at 10:10 am handed over to the Intelligence Directorate in the outskirts of the town of Shebaa through U.N. forces,” a Lebanese Army statement said.
The Israel Defense Forces detain one of two Lebanese shepherds who they say crossed the United Nations-patrolled border between the two nations. Lebanon calls the detention an "abduction". The IDF says the female shepherd, detained in the disputed Shebaa region, was quickly repatriated.