An Israeli soldier was injured on Monday when a bomb went off near the barbed wire in the southern border town of Adaisseh, the state-run National News Agency reported.

The NNA said that the soldiers was digging a hole near the barbed wire when the bomb exploded.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was under fire Sunday from religious lawmakers following a report that his son was dating a non-Jewish woman, media said.

Norwegian newspaper Dagen reported that Yair Netanyahu, 23, was dating 25-year-old Norwegian Sandra Leikanger, currently studying in Israel.

A farmer on Sunday found the remains of a rocket as he was cultivating his land in the southern town of al-Mari in Hasbaya District.

Al-Jadeed television said the man immediately informed the relevant security authorities, which arrived on the scene and took the remains to a military post.

Israel is to allow the entry of more building materials into the Gaza Strip, the defense ministry said Sunday, and a U.N. refugee agency said they should be delivered soon.

"About 1,000 tonnes of cement and building materials will enter the Gaza Strip for storm damage restoration and other projects of U.N. agencies," the Israeli defense ministry said in a statement.

An Israeli woman convicted of spying and leaking classified military documents to the media walked free on Sunday after serving 26 months of a four-and-a-half year prison sentence.

Commercial TV station Channel 2 showed former soldier Anat Kam leaving Neve Tirza women's prison in Ramle near Tel Aviv wearing jeans and a dark sweater.

An overwhelming majority of Israelis think current peace talks with the Palestinians will not lead to an agreement, according to a poll published on Saturday.

A huge 87 percent of respondents answered "no" when asked if they thought the negotiations would result in a peace deal.

A clash seems to be looming between Israel and the radical Palestinian movement Islamic Jihad, as they abandon pledges made under a fragile ceasefire that ended the last full-scale war in the Hamas-run Gaza Strip.

Israel recently targeted two of the group's militants for firing rockets at it, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promised to teach Gaza-based militants a "lesson."

Israeli forces shot dead a man and wounded another in the Gaza Strip near the border with the Jewish state on Friday, a medical source in the Palestinian enclave said.

Bilal Samir Oweida, a 20-year-old civilian, died after being "shot in the chest by Israeli soldiers" east of Jabaliya, in northern Gaza, said Ashraf al-Qudra, a spokesman for the Hamas-run health ministry.

A U.S. official downplayed Thursday the discovery by Israel of an al-Qaida cell it said was plotting to bomb the American Embassy in Tel Aviv, describing the group's plans as "aspirational."

Israeli authorities said Wednesday three members of a militant cell run by al-Qaida in annexed east Jerusalem had been arrested for plotting a wave of attacks across the country.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called on Europe on Thursday to demonstrate fairness in its Middle East policy, after a spat over settlements blew up last week.

Speaking to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Netanyahu said Europe could make a positive contribution in the Middle East but warned that it could also have a "negative effect."