Arab foreign ministers gathered on Wednesday with Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas said Israel was "wholly responsible for the dangerous stalemate" in U.S.-brokered peace talks scheduled to end on April 29.

On Tuesday, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry also blamed the approval of Israeli settlements in annexed Arab east Jerusalem for derailing peace talks with the Palestinians, but accused both sides of intransigence.

Israel's security cabinet was to meet Wednesday to discuss a response to attacks by hardline Jewish settlers on soldiers in the occupied West Bank after calls for tough action, public radio said.

The meeting comes after settlers attacked soldiers for the second night in a row, despite a warning from the defense minister of a tough response.

Israel's approval of controversial new settlements scuppered an opportunity for progress in U.S.-sponsored peace talks with the Palestinians, Secretary of State John Kerry said Tuesday.

The Israeli government announced a major expansion of settlement construction in the West Bank last month, just as Washington was scrambling for a way to get the two sides to extend peace talks beyond an April 29 deadline.

Three Israeli diplomats accused of abusing and injuring an Indian immigration official at New Delhi airport are being "repatriated to Israel", an embassy official told Agence France Presse on Tuesday.

Delhi Police had lodged a criminal case against the consular officials, who enjoy diplomatic immunity, after a scuffle broke out between them and an immigration official late Saturday.

Two Israeli tanks crossed the electronic fence in the southern Qatmoun region on Tuesday, while gunshots were heard near the town of Rmeish.

“Two Merkava tanks crossed the electronic fence in the Qatmoun region to the south of Rmeish,” the state-run National News Agency said.

An Israeli startup said on Tuesday that it was working to develop a bio-organic system that can recharge a smartphone battery in just 30 seconds.

Tel Aviv-based StoreDot's prototype battery and charger is currently being tested with Samsung's Galaxy phones, but the startup's founder and CEO Doron Myersdorf told Agence France Presse that a product compatible with all makes of smartphone should be on the market by 2016.

Clashes between Jewish settlers and Israeli security forces in the West Bank during the night left eight people including six border guards injured, police said on Tuesday.

"Police came to help soldiers to demolish five illegal constructions near Yitzhar," a settlement in the northern West Bank, police spokeswoman Luba Samri told Agence France Presse.

The bomber who targeted a bus in the Bulgarian Black Sea resort of Burgas in 2012, killing five Israeli tourists, was of Algerian origin and trained in camps in southern Lebanon, the Bulgarian daily Presa said Monday.

"The assailant was born in Algeria, lived in Morocco and was trained in camps in South Lebanon. He also studied at a Beirut university with the other two suspects," the newspaper quoted sources familiar with the investigation as saying.

Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah claimed Hizbullah's responsibility for an attack on an Israeli military patrol in the occupied Shebaa Farms area last month.

Nasrallah told As Safir daily in an interview published on Monday that the roadside bomb ambush was carried out by the resistance in response to an Israeli raid in February on one of its positions in an area near the Lebanese-Syrian border.

Israeli and Palestinian negotiators were to meet again on Monday in a new effort to salvage the teetering U.S.-brokered peace talks, U.S. and Palestinian officials said.

The meeting came as U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry scrambled to rescue negotiations he kick-started in July, and a week after a fresh impasse saw both sides renege on commitments they made nine months ago.