The European Union scrambled to set the record straight on Hamas Wednesday after an EU court ordered the removal of the Palestinian Islamist group from its terror blacklist, infuriating Israel.

The ruling threatened recent Brussels attempts to play a bigger role in reviving the moribund Middle East peace process, with Israeli premier Benjamin Netanyahu saying it showed Europeans had learned nothing from the Holocaust.

The offshore gas exploration file is being put on the right track following Speaker Nabih Berri's campaign to adopt decrees that are necessary to stop Israel from drilling oil from Lebanon's reserves.

Local dailies on Wednesday quoted Berri as saying that an agreement was reached among Energy Minister Arthur Nazarian, the head of the parliamentary energy committee, MP Mohammed Qabbani, and the members of the Petroleum Administration to revive the file.

The Palestinians pressed ahead on Wednesday with a U.N. draft resolution that would set a course toward statehood, ratcheting up pressure on the United States and Israel to join a renewed peace effort.

The Palestinian move at the United Nations came as the European parliament overwhelmingly backed recognition of a Palestinian state, the latest assembly in Europe to adopt a motion to that end.

The Palestinians told U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Tuesday they will submit a draft resolution to the U.N. Security Council even though he warned of a veto, a Palestinian official said.

The official said Kerry was told they would submit the text as planned on Wednesday calling for a withdrawal of Israeli troops from occupied Palestinian territory within two years.

Israel and the United States on Tuesday tested Tel Aviv's Arrow 3 ballistic missile interception system, the defense ministry said, with local media reporting the trial was cut short.

Iran's media reacted Tuesday to the deadly hostage siege in Sydney by pointing the finger of blame at the West and linking the Iranian-born gunman to Islamic State group militants.

Israeli police on Tuesday arrested 10 members of extremist anti-Arab group Lehava which has been linked to an attack last month on a Jewish-Arab school.

The attack, which incited violence against Arabs and equated them to a "cancer", sparked a wave of condemnation and came amid months of rising tensions and unrest in Israel and the Palestinian territories.

With peace talks exhausted, pressure building on the streets and increasing international support, the Palestinians are hoping the time has finally come for a U.N. resolution on ending the Israeli occupation.

Jordan is expected to submit an Arab-backed draft resolution to the U.N. Security Council as early as Wednesday, seeking a two-year timetable for Israel to withdraw its forces from the occupied West Bank and east Jerusalem.

The cabinet is likely to reach a settlement over the opening tenders of marine oil blocks to foreign companies, as Energy Minister Arthur Nazarian linked the adoption of petroleum decrees to resolving this dispute, reported As Safir newspaper on Tuesday.

“Implementing the decree should be the government's top priority,” he told the daily.

A Palestinian was killed overnight during an Israeli military operation in the Qalandiya refugee camp near Ramallah in the West Bank, medical and security sources said Tuesday.

The 22-year-old man was killed when troops entered the camp to make an arrest, triggering clashes with residents, the sources said.