Israel will on Sunday release and deport on Sunday a Lebanese detainee who has served his sentence in an Israeli jail, on charges of collaborating with the Lebanese Shiite movement Hezbollah, a source told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa on Wednesday.
"Nessim Nasr will be handed over near the southern border of Naquora crossing to the International Committee of the Red Cross on Sunday at (8:00 GMT)," the source in the Lebanese Red Cross said.
Nisr has been imprisoned in Israel for six years. He will be deported from Israel since he holds Israeli citizenship, according to the source.
His brother Mohammed said the family was preparing to welcome him in his hometown of Bazrouyeh in southern Lebanon.
Nisr was born in 1968 to a Jewish Israeli mother and a Muslim Lebanese father and left Lebanon during the Israeli invasion in 1982 to join his mother's family near Tel Aviv.
His mother, Valentine, 70, said she had been informed of her son's imminent release. Baszouryeh is also the hometown of Hezbollah chief Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah.
Israeli army radio reported on Monday that Israel was prepared to release five Lebanese prisoners and return the bodies of 10 Hezbollah fighters in exchange for two of its soldiers captured by the militant group in 2006.
Nasrallah, meanwhile, said Lebanese detainees in Israeli prison would soon be home.
The new swap deal will include the longest-held Lebanese prisoner Samir Kuntar, who was sentenced in 1980 to 542 years in prison for killing a civilian and his daughter as well as a police officer in a 1979 attack.
Kuntar's brother, Bassam, told dpa that he expects his brother to be released after the Israeli cabinet issues an amnesty for him.
"My brother has a different case than the rest of the prisoners, because he was sentenced to jail by an Israeli court and he will need legal procedures to be done before his release," Bassam Kuntar said on Tuesday.