Israel's intelligence minister called reported U.S. wiretapping of an Israeli premier "unacceptable" as the story on Sunday rekindled calls for the release of jailed Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard.

"We have of late exceptional intelligence relations with the United States and the British, it's almost one intelligence community," Yuval Steinitz told private television Channel 2's "Meet the Press" late Saturday.

Caretaker Foreign Minister Adnan Mansour stated on Saturday that Israel's unilateral decision to demarcate the maritime border with Lebanon does not produce any legal obligations for the country.

“Israel's step does not produce any legal obligations for Lebanon as if it never happened,” Mansour stated, considering it also a violation of International Law and of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea.

Explosions were heard on Saturday near the border southern town of Maroun al-Ras from the Israeli side, the state-run National News Agency reported.

According to NNA, the bombing sounds were caused by drills carried out by Israeli troops.

Israeli soldiers shot and wounded a Palestinian man in the southern Gaza Strip on Saturday, sources on both side of the border said.

Ashraf al-Qudra, a spokesman for the emergency services in the Islamist Hamas-run enclave, told AFP the 22-year-old was hit by a bullet east of Khan Yunis and moderately wounded.

Lebanese officials warned against Israel taking any “unilateral” steps in demarcating its maritime border in the areas near Lebanon, reported As Safir newspaper on Saturday.

Israel's Yedioth Ahronoth daily said that Israel is seeking to demarcate the maritime border in the area disputed with Lebanon through a draft law that will be proposed at the Knesset.

The Palestinian leadership said Friday it recognizes the right of civil society groups to boycott Israeli products, although its own embargo is limited to products from settlements.

"The Palestine Liberation Organization and the State of Palestine is not opposed to the Palestinian civil society-led Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel," it said in a statement received by Agence France Presse.

U.S. and British spy agencies eavesdropped on an Israeli prime minister, energy firms, aid agencies and an EU official overseeing anti-trust cases, the New York Times reported Friday.

In surveillance of more than 1,000 targets in more than 60 countries between 2008 to 2011, the National Security Agency and Britain's General Communications Headquarters spied on the communications of foreign leaders, including former Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert, according to secret documents revealed by intelligence contractor Edward Snowden.

Israeli troops shot dead a Palestinian Friday in the northern Gaza Strip near the border with the Jewish state, emergency services and the news agency of the Hamas government said.

The man's body was recovered east of Beit Hanun, the emergency services said.

Hizbullah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah criticized on Friday the March 14 camp's accusations against some Shiites in Lebanon of seeking to eliminate other powers in Lebanon.

He warned: “Such a proclamation is a declaration of war.”

Lebanese and the Jewish state troops went on high alert on Friday after Israeli military tried to cut down a tree adjacent to the border fence from the town of Adaisseh, the state-run National News Agency reported.

UNIFIL peacekeepers swiftly deployed in the area to calm down both sides and carried out contacts with the Lebanese and Israeli military.