A Palestinian shot in a 2012 clash with Israeli troops died of his injuries in an Israeli hospital on Thursday, Palestinian security officials told Agence France Presse.

They named the man as Mahmud Waji Awad, 24, and said he was shot in the West Bank's Qalandiya camp, between Ramallah and Israeli-annexed east Jerusalem, about a year ago.

An Israeli court on Thursday jailed six Arab citizens for killing a far-right soldier after he slew four Arabs and wounded more than 20 in a 2005 shooting spree.

Three of the men received two-year prison sentences and the others got terms ranging from 11-20 months, documents published by the Haifa district court showed.

A Jordan-based scientific research project whose members include Iran and the Palestinian Authority has chosen an Israeli as vice president, the candidate's university confirmed.

Scientists from states participating in the project elected Eliezer Rabinovici, a physics professor at Jerusalem's Hebrew University, as vice-president of the Synchrotron-light for Experimental Science and Applications in the Middle East (SESAME), the university told AFP.

A large-scale meeting was held on Thursday at the parliament to brief foreign diplomats and Lebanese politicians on the recently established Israeli spying stations along its border with Lebanon.

The meeting, according to head of the committee Hizbullah MP Hassan Fadlallah, was held to discuss the dangers of the Israeli spying operations on Lebanon.

 Israeli President Shimon Peres said Wednesday that peace with the Palestinians was urgent and possible amid faltering negotiations between the two sides.

Peres, speaking during a visit to Mexico City, said he welcomed the new round of talks, revived in July with the aim of reaching an agreement within nine months.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry returns to Israel next week, seeking to ease tensions with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has denounced the nuclear deal with Iran as a "historic mistake."

Kerry will also travel to Ramallah for talks with Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas as he tries to keep delicate Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations on track, a U.S. official said Wednesday.

Most Palestinians believe the renewal of peace talks with Israel was a mistake and over two thirds think the negotiations will fail, according to a poll released Wednesday.

Just over half the respondents -- 50.5 percent -- said the decision by Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas to resume U.S.-brokered peace talks with Israel in late July was a mistake, while 33.8 percent said it was the right decision, according to the Jerusalem Media and Communications Center (JMCC) survey.

Israel is failing to penalize Jewish settlers for attacks on Palestinians in the West Bank who enjoy "virtual impunity" from prosecution, Ramallah-based rights group Al-Haq said on Wednesday.

In a 40-page report, Al-Haq also called on the international community to avoid funding settler groups, a day after Israel and the European Union reached a compromise deal over funding for bodies operating in the occupied West Bank or east Jerusalem.

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif went before parliament on Wednesday to defend a landmark nuclear deal clinched at the weekend with world powers, media reported.

"From the beginning we all knew that entering into negotiations meant facing major difficulties, because in negotiations all your demands cannot be met," Zarif was quoted on the website of state broadcaster IRIB as telling parliament.

Israel installed a new spying station in Mount Hermon (Jabal al-Sheikh), near the border with Lebanon, As Safir newspaper reported on Wednesday.

According to the newspaper, the espionage station includes advanced equipment that enable Israel to monitor Hasbaya, Arqoub, Rashaya, the Bekaa and several areas in eastern Lebanon mountain range.