Egyptian military prosecutors were interrogating Israeli journalist Yotam Feldman on Tuesday after arresting him at the border as he tried to cross illegally with a migrant from Ghana, a security source said, adding the journalist risks a military trial.

Feldman and the Ghanian were arrested on Sunday along a route used by smugglers who help African migrants into Israel, officials said.

The security source said military prosecutors decided to interrogate Feldman because they had doubts about his account of accompanying the migrant to do a report for Israel's Channel 10 television.

A Channel 10 spokesperson told AFP that Feldman was in Egypt for a report on African migrants and the channel was asking for his release.

The security source said the prosecution would decide whether to commit Feldman to trial before a military court on charges of illegally crossing the border, which could lead to a sentence of one year in prison.

-AFP/NOW Lebanon