The Israeli government approved a bill on Sunday to submit any peace treaty with the Palestinians to a referendum, a statement from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office said.

"Any agreement which may be reached in negotiations will be put to a referendum," it quoted him as saying. "It is important that on such historic decisions every citizen should vote directly on an issue deciding the country's future."

Israeli Chief of Staff Benny Gantz warned on Sunday Lebanon against getting dragged into the war in Syria, reported Yedioth Ahronoth.

He called on the Lebanese government against getting caught up in the civil war in the neighboring country.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Saturday that Israel will free 104 Palestinian prisoners to coincide with the resumption of long-stalled peace talks brokered by the United States.

"I agreed to free 104 Palestinians in stages, after the start of negotiations and according to progress," he wrote on his official Facebook page.

Israeli and Palestinian negotiators will meet in Washington on Tuesday for a round of talks after a three-year break, a Palestinian official said on Saturday.

Speaking on condition of anonymity, he told Agence France Presse that the Palestinian delegation would be led by chief negotiator Saeb Erakat with the Israelis headed by Justice Minister Tzipi Livni.

Israeli security forces in the West Bank city of Jenin on Friday arrested the brother of a high-profile former militant chief, a Palestinian security official told Agence France Presse.

He said that they snatched Daoud Zubeidi, a member of the Al-Aqsa Martyr Brigades militant group, in an early-morning raid on his home in Jenin refugee camp and lightly wounded a bystander who was shot in the leg.

Israel is giving the EU "the cold shoulder" in the West Bank, Israeli officials told Agence France Presse on Friday, following new European guidelines banning dealings with Jewish settlements.

Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon had given instructions to Israeli officials to "freeze contacts with European Union representatives in Area C" of the West Bank, which is under full Israeli control, one official said.

Israeli President Shimon Peres considered that attempts to differentiate between Hizbullah's military wing and political party is plain “hypocrisy,” calling on the European Union to place Hizbullah as a whole on the list of terrorist organizations.

Peres wondered in an interview with al-Hurra TV on Thursday night if Hizbullah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallh is a politician or a military man.

EU ambassador to Lebanon Angelina Eichhorst stressed on Friday that the European Union's decision to blacklist Hizbullah's military wing doesn't justify any Israeli action against Lebanon.

“It's a decision that denounces terrorism acts carried out in EU countries,” Eichhorst said in comments published in As Safir newspaper in response to Hizbullah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah's speech.

Hizbullah international relations official Ammar Moussawi slammed on Thursday the European Union's decision to blacklist the party, describing it as an insult to Lebanon and its people.

He said after holding talks with EU Ambassador to Lebanon Angelina Eichhorst that the decision to continue cooperation between the union and Hizbullah lies in the hands of the party's leadership.

Bulgaria released pictures Thursday of two suspected helpers of a bomber who blew up a bus packed with Israeli tourists last year, identifying them as an Australian and a Canadian.

"A year after the bomb attack on a bus with Israeli tourists that killed five Israelis and one Bulgarian citizen, the authorities are seeking public assistance for information on two people suspected of having links to the attack," the interior ministry said in a statement.