The Israel Defense Forces released a Lebanese man on Thursday who had been detained the previous day near the border, a security source said.

The army handed him to United Nations peacekeepers in south Lebanon, who in turn delivered him to the Lebanese authorities, the source said.

Witnesses in Lebanon said the man had been detained while picking herbs near the border between Lebanon and the Shebaa Farms. It was not clear whether he had wandered into the Shebaa Farms.

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The United Nations says the Shebaa Farms is Syrian territory captured by Israel in the Middle East war of 1967, while Syria and Lebanon say it is Lebanese territory.