A mortar shell fired from war-torn Syria struck the outskirts of a town in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights on Monday, witnesses told Agence France Presse.

The shell landed on the western edge of Majdal Shams, some 50 meters (yards) from a house, but caused no injuries or damage, they said.

The Foreign Press Association on Sunday accused the Israeli army of "deliberately targeting" journalists after soldiers fired rubber bullets and threw a stun grenade at photojournalists clearly identified as press.

In a statement, the Tel Aviv-based group, which represents journalists of all foreign media, said troops had directly targeted a group of photographers covering skirmishes at Qalandia crossing between Jerusalem and Ramallah.

Israel is to join a United Nations rights body with which it has been feuding for years, as a member of its European bloc, an Israeli official said on Sunday.

Speaking to AFP on condition of anonymity, the official confirmed Israeli membership of the Western European and Others Group (WEOG) in the U.N. Human Rights Council had been approved and a formal invitation was expected shortly.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu left for Rome on Sunday for a two-day official visit during which he will meet Pope Francis for the first time.

The Israeli leader took off around midday accompanied by six of his ministers, including his newly reappointed Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, public radio said.

Hundreds of protesters demonstrated in Israel, the West Bank and Gaza Strip on Saturday against an Israeli draft law aimed at evicting Bedouin residents from the southern Negev desert.

The government in January approved a bill calling for the relocation of 30,000-40,000 Bedouins, the demolition of about 40 villages and confiscation of more than 700,000 dunams (70,000 hectares) of Negev land.

Israeli border police killed a Palestinian during a raid aimed at netting illegal immigrants in a suburb of commercial capital Tel Aviv early Saturday, a police spokeswoman said.

"Border police carried out an operation this morning in a cemetery in Petah Tikva looking for foreigners residing in Israel illegally," Luba Samri said.

U.N. leader Ban Ki-moon warned Friday of "increasingly dangerous" tensions between Israel and the Palestinians which could threaten peace talks.

Israeli and Palestinian negotiators are holding U.S.-brokered peace contacts, but Ban said, "I am alarmed by the increasingly dangerous situation on the ground. There has been an escalation of violence and incitement."

A local deputy from Switzerland's populist Geneva Citizens' Movement (MCG) was excluded from the regional party on Friday for appearing to support the destruction of Israel.

Denis Menoud wrote on his Facebook page Tuesday that following Iran's historic nuclear deal with the West, "the key thing is that Israel is on the path to being incinerated."

An explosion was heard on Wednesday in al-Ouzai area, which is believed to be caused by the detonation of an old rocket left over from the July war.

Media reports said that the explosion occurred in a junk yard in the area south of Beirut, causing no casualties.

The U.S. suggested a new proposal to end the dispute between Lebanon and Israel over the two countries Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ), As Safir newspaper reported on Friday.

According to the newspaper, U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Energy Diplomacy Amos Hochstein paid a quick visit to Beirut on November 9 in an attempt to resolve the ongoing dispute.