Israeli troops on Monday dismantled and removed two electronic devices from the Lebanese border town of Adaisseh, as Lebanese soldiers and UNIFIL peacekeepers stood guard and monitored the process.

“At 10:45 a.m., a patrol belonging to the Israeli enemy and accompanied by two members of (UNIFIL's) liaison apparatus dismantled and removed the two electronic devices that were placed in the border area of Adaisseh, south of the Blue Line,” a Lebanese army statement said.

Israel's restrictions on Palestinian movement between Gaza and the West Bank is separating relatives and making family life impossible for tens of thousands of people, an Israeli human rights report said Monday.

Jointly published by rights watchdogs B'Tselem and HaMoked, the 42-page report documents the impact of Israel's policy of tightly restricting Palestinian movement into and out of the Hamas-run Gaza Strip.

Israel on Sunday began transferring bodies of Palestinian militants killed by Israeli forces to the West Bank for reburial, sources on both sides said.

According to Fatma Abdallah, media coordinator for the "Palestinian national committee to return the bodies of martyrs," Israel handed over the body of Majdi Khanfar, originally from Silat al-Zaher near Jenin, via a crossing in the north of the West Bank.

Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper began his first official visit to Israel on Sunday, with his Israeli counterpart hailing him as a "great friend" of the Jewish state and people.

Canada is one of Israel's staunchest allies and was one of the few countries that opposed a successful Palestinian bid for upgraded status at the United Nations in 2012.

Israel's premier on Sunday condemned a decision by the U.N. cultural agency to postpone an exhibit tracing 3,500 years of ties between the Jewish people and Israel, following pressure from Arab countries.

UNESCO had said on Friday it was postponing the exhibit after receiving a letter from the 22-member Arab Group which expressed concern it "could impact negatively on the peace process and current negotiations under way in the Middle East."

Israel released a prominent leader from Islamist movement Hamas on Sunday after he spent more than two years in prison, Palestinian officials said.

Hassan Youssef, who is also a member of the Ramallah-based Palestinian Legislative Council, told reporters after his release he would work with Hamas rivals "Fatah and other Palestinian factions to achieve reconciliation."

Two Palestinians were hurt, one critically, in an Israeli air strike on Gaza City on Sunday, which the military said had targeted a senior Islamic Jihad militant.

The strike, the third in 12 hours, came a day after militants fired another rocket at southern Israel, prompting a sharp warning from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Two computers with Hebrew writings were found on Saturday in a southern disputed area on the border, an army communique said.

“The Indonesian patrol in the UNIFIL found a suspicious object in a disputed area near (the southern border town of) Adaisseh,” the statement detailed.

Muslim nations urged the international community Saturday to put pressure on Israel to stop building Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank, as the end of talks in Morocco.

The call was issued by the Al-Quds (Jerusalem) Committee amid heightened concern that the settlements undermine U.S.-brokered peace talks that resumed in July after bogging down three years earlier over the construction drive.

Israeli Energy Minister Silvan Shalom attended a meeting Saturday of the International Renewable Energy Agency in the United Arab Emirates, which has no diplomatic relations with the Jewish state.

It is the first time Israel has sent a minister to a meeting of IRENA since its foundation in 2009.