Israeli tanks hit a position of the Islamist movement Hamas in the Gaza Strip after a rocket was launched on southern Israel from the Palestinian enclave, Israel's army said Friday.

A military statement said its overnight strike had targeted "terrorist infrastructure" in the north of the Strip.

Gaza militants fired at least one rocket at southern Israel on Thursday night as Israel wound up celebrations marking the anniversary of its creation, the Israeli army said.

Warning sirens sounded in "the southern communities of Sderot and Gevim following a rocket attack originating from the Gaza Strip. No damage reported," a military statement said.

Thousands of Arab Israelis marched in protest Thursday as their Jewish compatriots partied, each group in its own way marking the 67th anniversary of Israel's founding.

The anniversary of Israel's declaration of independence on May 14, 1948 is celebrated according to the Jewish calendar, this year falling on April 23.

A lawyer representing Palestinians attacked on Thursday a ruling by the Israeli Supreme Court that he said could enable confiscation of east Jerusalem property owned by residents of the occupied West Bank.

The April 15 decision brings such assets within the scope of the 1950 "Absentee Property Law," which places in state custody all property inside Israel owned by Arabs who were living outside the state at the time of its founding in 1948.

Iran and major powers held a second day of talks Thursday seeking to finalize a historic deal that would make any attempt by Tehran to make a nuclear weapon extremely difficult and easily detectable.

Meeting in Vienna, Iran and the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council plus Germany want to turn a framework accord reached in Switzerland on April 2 into a full agreement by June 30.

A year after rival Palestinian nationalist movements Hamas and Fatah agreed to end their bitter divisions, the unity deal they signed appears to be on the brink of collapse.

This week, a ministerial delegation from the Ramallah-based consensus government headed to the Gaza Strip, the stronghold of Hamas, for what was to be a week-long visit focused on resolving a long-running dispute over employees.

The name of a Palestinian teen burned alive by his Jewish kidnappers has been removed from a memorial to victims of terror attacks, an Israeli official said Wednesday, after family objections.

Haim Pitoussi, spokesman of the National Insurance Institute which administers the memorial wall in Jerusalem's Mount Herzl national cemetery, confirmed that the name of Mohammed Abu Khder, 16, had been erased.

Israel's defense ministry on Tuesday inscribed the name of a Palestinian teenager burned alive by his Jewish kidnappers on a memorial wall listing the victims of terror attacks. 

The move took place as Israel was to begin marking memorial day for fallen soldiers and the victims of terror attacks, which begins at sundown. 

An Israeli court sentenced an Iranian-born Belgian to seven years in prison Tuesday after convicting him of spying for Tehran posing as a businessman.

Ali Mansouri was arrested at Ben Gurion airport in 2013 as he attempted to leave the country carrying photographs of the U.S. embassy in Tel Aviv and other sites, Israel's Shin Bet domestic security service said.

An Israeli passenger plane was forced to turn around and make an emergency landing at Ben Gurion airport near Tel Aviv Tuesday after part of a wheel came off, an airport official said.

"An El Al flight bound for Prague was forced to make an emergency landing after parts of one of its tires were discovered on the runway," the official told AFP, adding that it landed without incident.