An Arab Israeli who killed three people in a January 1 shooting spree in Tel Aviv may have been inspired by the Islamic State jihadist group, the internal security agency said Thursday.

Shin Bet released a video and information shedding light for the first time on the motives of Nashaat Melhem, 31, who was shot dead during his arrest after a week on the run.

A suicide car bombing claimed by the Islamic State jihadist group killed at least eight people Thursday outside Yemen's presidential palace in the city of Aden, security and medical officials said.

IS said that one of its militants, apparently a Dutch national, carried out the attack on a checkpoint outside the palace in the main city of southern Yemen.

An Egyptian affiliate of the jihadist Islamic State group claimed responsibility Thursday for an attack that killed a colonel and three soldiers in North Sinai, where it is spearheading a deadly insurgency.

Wednesday's bombing in North Sinai's provincial capital of El-Arish targeted the troops' armored vehicle when it was engaged in a search operation, security officials and emergency services said.

Russia said on Thursday it wanted to hold an international meeting on Syria -- including key players from the West and the Middle East -- in Munich next month.

"There is an agreement in principle between Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Secretary of State John Kerry, and now we will propose to all the other participants of the international Syria support group a time and place -- Munich, February 11," state news agency TASS quoted deputy foreign minister Mikhail Bogdanov as saying.

Egypt was to receive three Rafale fighters from France on Thursday, a French embassy official said, six months after Paris delivered the first three of a consignment of 24 of the warplanes.

The delivery is part of a 5.2 billion-euro ($5.6 billion) deal Cairo signed with Paris in February 2015 to purchase 24 Rafale multi-role combat jets, a frigate and missiles.

Seven Hamas militants were confirmed killed Thursday after a tunnel built for fighting Israel collapsed in the Gaza Strip, highlighting concerns that yet another conflict could eventually erupt in the Palestinian enclave.

The Ezzedine Al-Qassam Brigades, Hamas's armed wing, said that four militants managed to escape after the collapse late on Tuesday in the northeast of the strip.

Saudi Arabia on Thursday executed one of its citizens for murder, bringing to 55 the number of convicts put to death this year.

Authorities in the southwestern region of Aseer carried out the death sentence against Owaidhah al-Saadi, the interior ministry said in a statement.

Suspected Russian air strikes killed at least 54 civilians in rebel- and jihadist-held areas of Syria in the past 24 hours, a monitoring group said Thursday.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said strikes on Wednesday had killed 29 civilians, including nine women and three children, in villages controlled by the Islamic State group in the eastern Deir Ezzor province and its provincial capital of the same name.

Israel arrested a Palestinian parliamentarian from the Islamist group Hamas, the army said Thursday, raising the number of detained Palestinian lawmakers to seven.

Mohammed Abu Tir was taken to custody on suspicion of being "involved in terrorist activities", an army spokeswoman told Agence France Presse.

A Palestinian teen stabbed and seriously wounded an Israeli man at a petrol station outside a West Bank settlement before being apprehended, police said Thursday.

The 17-year-old Palestinian male from Bir Nabala, a village south of Ramallah, stabbed the ultra-Orthodox Israeli Jew twice in the back near the Givat Zeev settlement on Wednesday night and then fled.