Beirut  - Nassim Nisr, who has been imprisoned in Israel for six years after being accused of collaborating with the Lebanese Shiite Movement, will be released "in the coming few days," a Lebanese security source told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa Tuesday.

Nisr "will be released either Saturday or Sunday if no obstacles arise," the source said.

Nisr will be deported from Israel, the source said, adding preparations are underway to receive five Lebanese prisoners and the bodies of ten Hezbollah fighters who fell during the July 2006 war with Israel, once negotiations by German meditators have ended.

Israeli army radio had 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.

Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah had said that Lebanese detainees in Israeli prison would soon be home.

Nessim Nisr was born in 1968 to a Israeli-Jewish mother and a Lebanese Muslim father and left Lebanon during the Israeli invasion in 1982 to join his mother's family near Tel Aviv.

Nisr's mother Valentine, 70, now lives in the village of Bazrouyeh in southern Lebanon, and said that she had been informed of her son' imminent release. Baszouryeh is also the hometown of Hezbollah chief Sheikh Hassan Nasarllah.

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.

Samir'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.

Samir Kuntar's lawyer is due to meet him on Wednesday in an Israeli jail, Bassam added. (dpa)