The release of Arab Israeli citizen Salah Abu Hussein by Lebanon on Thursday, after he spent around a year in Lebanese prisons, is part of “a course that will unfold in the coming days,” prominent sources told al-Akhbar newspaper in remarks published Friday.

The move is linked to “promises presented by U.S. envoy Tom Barrack about a step that the Israeli government will make in return for the (Lebanese) government’s decision to disarm the resistance (Hezbollah),” the sources said.