Lebanon Receives Four Prisoners from Israeli Occupation

A convoy from the International Red Cross headed toward the town of Naqoura at the Ras al-Naqoura border crossing to the south to receive the four prisoners from Israeli occupation forces, and subsequently handed them over to the Lebanese Army in the Mansouri area, south of Sidon.

Lebanese President Joseph Aoun expressed his gratitude in a statement for all the efforts and initiatives undertaken, particularly by the United States under the leadership of President Donald Trump, as well as international entities, foremost among them the International Red Cross, which led today to the release of the first batch of Lebanese detainees by the Israeli occupation government.

Aoun considered this first step as “reaffirming the viability of Lebanon’s firm stance, encompassing all its components, as well as the necessity to complete the required steps outlined in the trilateral framework, leading to the full restoration of Lebanese sovereignty, without ceding a single inch of our land or losing a single person from our people.”

The Lebanese president extended congratulations on freedom to the released prisoners, as well as to their families and relatives, renewing the commitment to “continue the struggle to achieve all national demands and objectives, so that all Lebanese may live with dignity in a free homeland where no weapon exists on its soil except that of its legitimate forces, and where no sovereignty over its children exists except that of its protective, guaranteeing, capable, and just state.”

Lebanon signed a trilateral framework agreement on June 26 last year, bringing together Lebanon, the United States, and the Israeli occupation, at the conclusion of the fifth round of Lebanese-Israeli talks mediated by the United States in Washington.