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 but which Lebanon says is part of its territory.
"On April 28, at 8:30 p.m., 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-run National News Agency.
The Lebanese army statement said the government had raised the alleged abduction of Dali with the U.N. peacekeeping force stationed along the Israel-Lebanon border.
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.
"She was returned today," a military spokesman said.
There was no immediate Lebanese confirmation of Dali's repatriation.
Tensions between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon have heightened recently 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.
