Britain's Foreign Secretary William Hague on Friday urged the European Union to place the military branch of Hizbullah on its list of "terrorist" organizations.

"I would like to see the EU designate and sanction the military wing of Hizbullah," Hague said in response to a question on arriving for talks with his EU counterparts.

Israeli police have launched a probe into an attack against an east Jerusalem Palestinian, who was allegedly beaten by a group of Jewish youths in the city's western sector, a spokesman said on Friday.

According to Micky Rosenfeld, in the early hours of Thursday morning "an Arab (man) and Israeli who were in the Katamonim neighborhood, they were returning from a club. They were approached by a number of youths, and there was a fight. The Arab was taken to hospital with a broken leg.

Palestinian militants in Gaza fired two rockets at southern Israel, which exploded in open fields early on Friday and caused no damage, a military spokesman told Agence France Presse.

"Two rockets hit the Sdot Negev region this morning. Nobody was hurt and there was no damage," he said.

The Vice Chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral James Winnefeld, held talks with Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak on Thursday, the ministry said, as tensions rise over Iran's nuclear program.

A statement from the ministry containing pictures and a video of the two said that Winnefeld met Barak in his Tel Aviv office, without providing details on the meeting.

Israel's High Court was on Thursday mulling an urgent appeal on behalf of 20 Eritrean nationals stranded in no-man's land on the border with Egypt for a week after the Jewish state refused them entry.

The appeal was filed by Israeli NGO We Are Refugees in a petition against Defense Minister Ehud Barak and Interior Minister Eli Yishai for refusing to allow the group of Eritreans, who are seeking political asylum, into the country.

The Vice Chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral James Winnefeld, is on a secret visit to Israel as tensions rise over Iran's nuclear progress, Israel's army radio reported on Thursday.

The Israeli military itself refused to confirm the report, which said Winnefeld was in the country at the invitation of his counterpart, Deputy Chief of Staff Major General Yair Naveh.

Hizbullah is using a training base established by Iran in northern Nicaragua near the border with Honduras, the Israeli radio reported on Thursday.

“The area is cordoned off and there are around 30 members of Hizbullah being trained in the camp,” the radio quoted intelligence sources as saying.

Three Palestinians were killed by Israeli fire in the northern Gaza Strip on Thursday, raising to six the number killed in the past 12 hours, medical sources said.

"We have received three bodies," said Ashraf al-Qudra, spokesman for the Hamas-run health ministry, saying the three had been killed by an Israeli tank shell just east of the town of Beit Hanun.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday urged the European Union to place Hizbullah on its list of "terrorist" organizations.

Netanyahu made the request during talks with Italian Foreign Minister Giulio Terzi on the disputed nuclear program of Iran, Hizbullah’s leading regional ally.

Israel freed Hamas lawmaker Mohammed Abu Tir on Wednesday after holding him prisoner without charge for a year, the Islamist Palestinian movement reported.

Abu Tir, a lawmaker for Israeli-annexed east Jerusalem, was first arrested in June 2010 and expelled to the occupied West Bank the following December after he refused to leave east Jerusalem despite an Israeli interior ministry order revoking his residency permit over his ties to Hamas