Iran's foreign minister said on Facebook that Tehran condemns the World War II Nazi massacre of the Jews, in stark contract to Holocaust denials by former president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

"We condemn the massacre of Jews by the Nazis, and we condemn the massacre of Palestinians by the Zionists," Mohammad Javad Zarif wrote on his Facebook page, where he published the text of an interview he gave to the Tasnim news agency.

General Security chief Maj. Gen. Abbas Ibrahim warned on Thursday that Lebanon is passing through a dangerous phase and is still a target for perpetrators who plan to shatter its peace but assured that the nation will not slide into another civil war or be subject to an Israeli aggression.

“The security situation in Lebanon is open to all kinds of prospects, and we expect more assassinations,” Ibrahim told al-Joumhouria daily.

Israel on Wednesday released a firebrand Arab-Israeli Islamist preacher on bail, a day after arresting him over "incitement" against the Jewish state, a police spokeswoman said.

(Sheikh) Raed Salah was sent home "after accepting the conditions of his release," Luba Samri told Agence France Presse.

America's biggest pro-Israel groups are throwing their weight behind President Barack Obama's plan for U.S. military intervention in Syria.

The American Israel Public Affairs Committee, known as AIPAC, said Tuesday that congressional authorization for strikes against Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime would ensure that what it called "barbarism on a mass scale" does not go unanswered.

An Israeli force on Tuesday attempted to open the metal gate between the Misgav Am settlement and the eastern entrance of the southern town of Adaisseh with the aim of conducting repair works in an area disputed by Lebanon, the Lebanese National News Agency reported.

The Israeli army brought a bulldozer amid “strict security protection from troops and around seven military vehicles,” NNA said, adding that the soldiers opened the gate and sent a tracker dog through it for a period of time before closing it again.

Israeli police on Tuesday detained a firebrand Arab-Israeli Islamist preacher for questioning over "incitement" against the Jewish state, a spokesman said.

"(Sheikh) Raed Salah was arrested a short while ago by Israeli police on his way to Jerusalem," Micky Rosenfeld told Agence France Presse.

Israeli and Palestinian negotiators held another secret round of peace talks over the weekend, a Palestinian official said on Monday, adding that there had been "no breakthrough" so far.

"A round of talks was held on Saturday evening between the Israelis and Palestinians -- this is the fourth round," since they restarted more than a month ago, the official told Agence France Presse on condition of anonymity.

The U.S. decision to postpone possible strikes on Syria has done little to allay fears in northern Israel, where queues at post offices were backing up as civilians collected gas masks.

Talk of imminent U.S. military action against the regime in Damascus for its alleged use of chemical weapons had sparked widespread panic in Israel.

Israel's President Shimon Peres on Monday said he supported U.S. President Barack Obama's decision to seek Congressional approval for military action against Syria.

"I have full faith in President Obama's moral and operational stance," Peres said in an interview with Israeli army radio.

Three people were charged on Monday with firing rockets from Lebanon against Israel on August 22, reported the National News Agency.

State Commissioner to the Military Court Judge Saqr Saqr charged Lebanese national Youssef Mohammed al-Fleity and Omar Abdul Mawla al-Atrash and a fugitive with firing the rockets from southern Lebanon against Israel.