A Palestinian who was seriously injured by a rubber bullet to the head during a protest which erupted after a prisoner died in Israeli custody died of his wounds on Thursday, medical officials said.

"Mohammed Asfour died this morning after being in hospital for a long time after he was injured during a demonstration," a spokesman for Tel Aviv's Ichilov hospital told AFP.

State television on Thursday broadcast pictures of "Israeli spy gear" unearthed in Syria, in what it said was proof of Israel's involvement in the armed revolt against President Bashar Assad.

The broadcaster showed footage of rocks used to "camouflage" surveillance cameras found on the Syrian coast, as well as recording and video devices to transmit pictures and audio "in real time" from "sensitive locations".

The trial of a Hizbullah member accused of preparing attacks on Israelis in Cyprus has concluded with final summations submitted to the court in writing.

The court then asked defense and prosecution lawyers to clarify specific parts of their summations, which weren't read out or made public Thursday. The court said it will render its verdict on March 21.

Israeli President Shimon Peres on Thursday urged the EU to brand Hizbullah a terrorist group, as failing to do so would only encourage it to expand its operations.

Peres said Hizbullah, which the EU has so far declined to put on a list of international terrorist groups, was now intervening directly in Syria against rebels opposed to President Bashar Assad and so was spreading its reach.

Israel on Thursday expressed concern that the U.N. peacekeeping force in the Golan Heights could pull out altogether after Syrian rebels snatched 21 of their troops in the ceasefire zone bordering Israel.

The soldiers, Filipino members of the UNDOF peacekeeping force, were taken hostage on Wednesday by gunmen who said they would be held until troops loyal to Syrian President Bashar Assad pulled back from Jamla village in the southern province of Daraa.

Israeli plans to grant final approval for a military academy in annexed east Jerusalem have been delayed to avoid tensions ahead of U.S. President Barack Obama's visit, army radio said on Thursday.

The controversial project, to be built on the Mount of Olives, had been on the agenda of a Thursday meeting of the interior ministry's district planning committee but was taken off at the last moment, the radio said.

The Israeli National Security Council’s counterterrorism bureau has warned that Iran's Quds Force operatives and Hizbullah are plotting attacks ahead of the Passover vacation season.

Twenty-seven countries have been designated by the bureau as being under a travel alert of varying severity, the Jerusalem Post reported.

This year's first shipment of apples grown in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights has entered Syria via the town of Kuneitra, crossing the armistice line, a Syrian official said on Wednesday.

"International Committee of the Red Cross trucks delivered the first shipments of Syrian apples (grown) by our relatives in the Golan," said Medhat Saleh, who runs the Syrian cabinet's Golan bureau.

Five Lebanese people have been charged with cooperating with Israel, reported the National News Agency Wednesday.

It said that State Commissioner to the Military Court Judge Saqr Saqr charged the suspects with collaborating with the enemy before referring their case to First Military Investigation Judge Riyad Abu Ghida.

The ill-treatment of Palestinian minors held within the Israeli military detention system is "widespread, systematic and institutionalized," a report Wednesday by the U.N. children's fund found.

UNICEF in the 22-page report that examined the Israeli military court system for holding Palestinian children found evidence of practices it said were "cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment or punishment."