In an operation in southern Lebanon early on Monday, Israelis forces seized a local official with the Jamaa Islamiya group and took him to Israel for questioning, the Israeli military and Lebanese state media reported.

According to the NNA agency, Atwi Atwi — a local official with the Sunni Islamist group Jamaa Islamiya, or the Islamic Group in English — was taken in the southern village of Hebbarieh, in the region of Hasbaya and close to the border with Israel.