Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was invited Wednesday to address a joint meeting of the U.S. Congress next month to discuss security issues including violent extremism, House Speaker John Boehner announced.

"In this time of challenge, I am asking the prime minister to address Congress on the grave threats radical Islam and Iran pose to our security and way of life," Boehner said in a statement.

Hizbullah held funerals Wednesday for two of its fighters who were killed Sunday in an unprecedented Israeli airstrike on the Syrian region of Quneitra.

Coincidence doubled the grief in the southern town of Ghaziyeh, where a joint funeral was held for the slain young fighter Abbas Hijazi, aka Sayyed Jawad, and his father who died in coma only a few hours after the lethal Israeli strike. The father had been lying unconscious in an intensive care unit for around a month.

Thousands gathered in Tehran Wednesday at a funeral procession for a Revolutionary Guards general killed by Israel, after his commander warned the Jewish state it should "await destructive thunderbolts".

General Mohammad Ali Allahdadi died alongside six fighters from Lebanon's Hezbollah group in the attack Sunday near Quneitra on the Syrian-controlled side of the Golan Heights.

The March 14 General Secretariat condemned on Wednesday the Israeli airstrike on Hizbullah fighters in Syria's Golan, however, considering it as clear evidence of the party's involvement in the fighting in the neighboring country, “which violates the broad Lebanese unanimity.”

In a statement issued after its weekly meeting, the General Secretariat stressed that Hizbullah insists, through its ongoing engagement in battles in Syria, on transferring sedition into Lebanon, despite all of its claims.

Palestinian head teacher Abdelhakim Abu Jamus has just given his last shekels to his daughter for school and has nothing left to feed his family of eight.

Like tens of thousands of Palestinian public sector workers, he has not been paid since December after Israel suspended millions of dollars in tax revenues which should have been transferred to the Palestinian Authority, as punishment for joining the International Criminal Court.

The Lebanese army and U.N. peacekeepers on Wednesday carried out patrols along the Blue Line for the third day in a row following a deadly weekend Israeli raid in Syria that left six Hizbullah members dead.

The state-run National News Agency said the southern border region witnessed calm as the military and UNIFIL patrolled the area all along the technical fence.

Thai laborers employed on Israeli farms suffer from low pay, dangerous working conditions and very long hours, Human Rights Watch said in a report published on Wednesday.

According to the 48-page report entitled: "A Raw Deal: Abuses of Thai Workers in Israel’s Agricultural Sector," the 25,000 Thais employed in the Jewish state are working in conditions which contravene Israeli law. 

A knife-wielding Palestinian attacked passengers on a morning rush-hour bus in Tel Aviv Wednesday, wounding 12 people, before being shot by a passing prison officer in the latest lone-wolf attack. 

It was the first attack in Tel Aviv since a fatal November stabbing of a soldier by a Palestinian, and roundly condemned by Britain, France and the United States.

Speaker Nabih Berri warned on Wednesday of the dangerouseness of Israel's strike on Syria's Quneitra region, saying that it committed a “strategic error.”

He said: “Through this crime, Israel placed Iran on its border.”

The government is expected to discuss on Thursday the Israeli raid on Hizbullah fighters in Syria as Prime Minister Tammam Salam has expressed fears on the repercussions of the attack on Lebanon.

As Safir daily quoted Grand Serail sources as saying that Salam made contacts in the past two days to have a calm cabinet session.