A Jerusalem court said it has ordered the Palestinian Authority to compensate an Israeli family after finding it indirectly responsible for an attack that killed three of its members.

The decision from September 22 states that the PA had transferred weapons and money used by the militants who carried out an attack on a highway which killed the three Israelis in 2001.

The Israeli foreign ministry on Monday summoned Sweden's ambassador to protest over Stockholm's declared intention to recognize a Palestinian state.

Ambassador Carl Magnus Nesser was called in by the ministry's deputy director general for Europe, Aviv Shir-On, who "protested and expressed Israel's disappointment" after Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Loefven announced his intention to recognize a Palestinian state, the ministry said.

A Lebanese soldier on Sunday was injured in a shooting from Israel near Kfarshouba, prompting a retaliatory shooting from the Lebanese military.

The army stated: "One of the army positions was fired at in al-Sudana in the area of Shebaa by one of the Israeli positions on the opposite side that led to a non-hazardous injury of a soldier."

Israel has hit out at Sweden's newly elected prime minister Stefan Loefven over his decision to recognize a Palestinian state.

"Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said that he regrets that the new prime minister was in a hurry to make statements on Sweden's position regarding recognition of a Palestinian state, apparently before he had time even to study the issue in depth," Lieberman's office quoted him as saying, in a statement issued late Saturday.

Surrounded by the rubble of a deadly war with Israel, Gazans marked a sombre Eid al-Adha festival Saturday with prayers and visits to the graves of relatives.

Thabet al-Hamami pitched a tent by the ruins of his home -- one of 60,000 totally or partially destroyed by Israeli strikes during the recent conflict -- and offered sweets to relatives and friends.

Outgoing Israeli army chief of staff Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz was optimistic that Hizbullah would not launch an attack on the Jewish state soon but did not rule out a future war.

“We don’t expect war to be initiated against us in the coming year, but there could be a deterioration as a result of specific events” as occurred in the Gaza Strip, Gantz said in interviews published in eight newspapers in the past days and over the weekend.

The United States said Friday it would be "premature" to recognize a new Palestinian state, after Sweden said it was planning to as part of a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

"We believe international recognition of a Palestinian state is premature," State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki told reporters when asked about Sweden's decision.

An Israeli tourist who was arrested in front of the Notre Dame Cathedral while flying a drone above some of Paris' main attractions, was slapped with a 400-euro ($500) fine on Thursday, after spending the night in jail.

The 24-year-old tourist had launched the drone, equipped with a Go-Pro camera, above the famous Gothic church on Wednesday morning, and sent it hovering over the historic Hotel Dieu hospital and a police station, a police source told Agence France-Presse.

Israel was in security lockdown Friday for the Jewish fast of Yom Kippur, which is coinciding with the Muslim festival of Eid al-Adha for the first time in three decades.

The Israeli army said it had sealed off the occupied West Bank from Thursday night to Saturday night for the solemn holiday.

The European Union on Friday condemned an Israeli plan to build 2,610 new settler homes in annexed east Jerusalem, calling it "highly detrimental" to diplomatic efforts for Israeli-Palestinian peace.

Brussels called on Israel to "urgently reverse" actions leading to settlement expansion in east Jerusalem, which the Palestinians hope to make the capital of a future state alongside Israel.