Two Jordanian firms have signed a $771-million deal with U.S.-based Noble Energy to supply them with natural gas from an Israeli offshore field, local media reported on Thursday.

The Arab Potash and Jordan Bromine companies singed the agreement on Wednesday to obtain from Noble Energy and its Israeli partners 2 billion cubic meters (around 70 billion cubic feet) of gas from Israel's Tamar field for 15 years.

Israel is secretly transferring African asylum seekers to Uganda, Haaretz newspaper reported on Wednesday, quoting a senior Israeli government official.

The paper said that, over the past month, dozens of people agreed to leave for Uganda and some had already departed.

Washington is to demand Israel implement a partial settlement freeze after U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry presents his framework for extending peace talks, army radio reported on Wednesday.

Quoting U.S. negotiators involved in the talks, the radio said the United States was hoping to obtain a freeze on construction in isolated settlements outside the major West Bank blocs, which Israel hopes to retain in any peace deal.

An Israeli army unit recovered at dawn Wednesday an MK surveillance drone that had crashed near the U.N.-drawn Blue Line close to the southern Lebanese town of Mays al-Jabal.

The National News Agency reported that the unit pulled the main body part of the drone hours after it erected a tent near it to guard it all night.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said Tuesday that all issues in the U.S.-led peace negotiations with Israel, notably the refugee question, must be solved in line with international law.

Speaking on the eve of a meeting in Paris with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, who is shepherding the talks, Abbas said any peace deal would have to comply with international resolutions.

Two rockets fired from war-torn Syria struck the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights Tuesday shortly after a secret visit to the area by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the army said.

"Two rockets fire from Syria struck the central Golan without causing injuries or damage," a spokeswoman told AFP.

A number of Israeli soldiers crossed the technical border fence in the Kroum al-Mrah region in southern Lebanon in order remove parts of spy drone in the area, reported the National News Agency on Tuesday.

Witnesses told NNA that the 11 soldiers removed three parts of an MK surveillance drone that had crashed in the area in mysterious circumstances.

Israeli army paratroopers held a combat drill in northern Israel near the border with Lebanon in recent days to prepare for the threat of an attack from Hizbullah, the Jerusalem Post reported Tuesday.

The drill saw two Paratroop units respond to a hostile infiltration of Israel through a combat simulation in the Galilee’s Ramim Ridge that ended up in Har Dov, the Israeli daily said.

Israeli President Shimon Peres on Monday hailed remarks by Mahmoud Abbas on the Palestinian refugee issue, which he said showed the Palestinian president's "seriousness about reaching peace."

"I was happy to hear him," Peres' office quoted him as saying at the start of a meeting with Peruvian President Ollanta Humala.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Monday that Iran is the only beneficiary of nuclear talks with world powers and accused Tehran of "continuing its aggressive behavior."

His remarks came on the eve of fresh talks between Iran and the P5+1 group -- Britain, France, the United States, China and Russia plus Germany -- aimed at reaching a comprehensive accord on Tehran's controversial nuclear program.