The pro-Israeli South Lebanon Army (SLA) on November 8 released 13 Lebanese prisoners on humanitarian reasons, security sources said.

They added that all prisoners, who were detained for collaborating with Lebanese guerrillas to fight Israeli forces, were taken by the SLA from Khiam jail in south Lebanon to their homes inside the Israeli-occupied border zone.

Israel set up a self-declared security zone in south Lebanon in 1985 with the claimed aim of protecting its north from Lebanese guerrillas' cross-border attacks.

Since then, Lebanon's resistance movement spearheaded by the Iranian-backed Hezbollah, or Party of God, has been fighting to oust Israeli forces and its ally SLA out of the country.

More than 100 Lebanese are still held without any trial in the jail, which has been run by the militia under Israeli supervision.