Kuwait requested on Friday an urgent Arab foreign ministers meeting to discuss "the deteriorating situation" in the Gaza Strip, its Arab League representative said, as Israeli air strikes pound the Palestinian enclave.

Israel's aerial military campaign targeting rocket-firing militants in Gaza has killed around 110 Palestinians since it began early Tuesday.

Prime Minister Tammam Salam made a series of contacts lately in order to keep Lebanon away from the repercussions of the unrest in the Gaza Strip, reported An Nahar daily on Saturday.

It said that Salam contacted the representatives of major world powers in Beirut to that end.

The United States on Friday said that it was ready to leverage its relationships in the Middle East to try to bring about a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas.

The U.S. offer came a day after President Barack Obama called Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to offer to facilitate an end to Hamas rocket fire and Israeli aerial assaults that have killed 100 Palestinians in Gaza.

A popular Turkish female pop singer was under pressure Friday to make a public apology after she posted a succession of anti-Semitic tweets over Israel's deadly air campaign in Gaza.

Yildiz Tilbe, who has been making folk-influenced hit albums since the 1990s, appeared to praise Hitler in the tweets and say the end of the Jews was near.

Hamas has posted a Hebrew version of one of its battle songs in the latest act of psychological warfare accompanying the physical conflict with Israel.

The original Arabic version of "Shake Israel's Security" has long been a popular anthem of the Islamist movement's military wing, the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades.

Lebanese Army Colonel Antoine Abu Jaoude was sentenced Friday to seven years hard labor on charges of collaborating with the Israeli enemy.

“Presided over by Brigadier General Khalil Ibrahim, the Permanent Military Court issued its verdict against Colonel Antoine Abu Jaoude on charges of collaborating with the Israeli enemy,” state-run National News Agency reported.

Egypt said Friday its efforts to halt violence in the Gaza Strip have met with "stubbornness", as it appealed to the international community to intervene to end the deadly conflict.

Israel's aerial military campaign targeting rocket-firing militants in Gaza has killed at least 100 Palestinians and wounded more than 500 since it began early Tuesday.

Israel's aerial bombardment of Gaza claimed its 105th Palestinian life on Friday as Hamas pounded central Israel with rockets and Washington offered to help broker a truce.

Diplomatic efforts to end the hostilities gathered pace, with U.S. President Barack Obama phoning Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday accused Israel of a policy "based on lies" over its aerial bombardment of Gaza, in his latest vehement criticism of the Jewish state.

Speaking to supporters in Istanbul, Erdogan pointed out that 100 Palestinians had now been killed in the Israeli campaign while no Israeli's had died due to Palestinian attacks.

Egypt's security forces seized 20 Grad rockets being smuggled in from the Gaza Strip through a tunnel by militants in northern Sinai, security officials said Friday.

The rockets, along with their launch pads, were seized late Thursday after a firefight between security forces and militants in the town of Rafah bordering the Palestinian enclave, they said.