A rocket fired from the Gaza Strip struck open fields in southern Israel on Sunday, causing no damage or injuries, the Israeli army said.

"A rocket fired from Gaza fell this morning on open land in the Eshkol region," a spokeswoman told Agence France Presse.

Israeli police briefly detained a rabbi on Sunday over his endorsement of a controversial book that justifies the killing of non-Jews in certain circumstances, a police spokesman said on Sunday.

The brief detention and questioning of rabbi Yaakov Yosef, son of one of Israel's leading religious leaders, prompted his supporters to take to the streets in parts of Jerusalem, burning tires and blocking the city's light railway.

Kuwaiti naval forces on Saturday ended a mission to secure Bahrain's maritime border they began in March amid a crackdown on Shiite protesters, the official KUNA news agency reported.

"The Kuwaiti naval task force in the Kingdom of Bahrain ended today (Saturday) its mission to contribute to the protection of the maritime border of Bahrain and securing it in cooperation with the Bahraini navy, which began in March," KUNA said.

Jordanian Prime Minister Maaruf Bakhit reshuffled his cabinet on Saturday as the country faces protests denouncing corruption and demanding general reforms.

King Abdullah II issued a decree approving the first reshuffle of the cabinet, which was formed in February, bringing in nine newcomers, and changing the portfolios of two ministers.

Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi threatened retaliation against Europe on Friday unless NATO ceases its operations, warning loyalist forces can launch stinging attacks like "locusts and bees."

"The Libyan people are capable, one day, of taking the battle to Europe and the Mediterranean," Gadhafi said in a speech broadcast by loudspeaker to thousands of loyalists gathered in Tripoli's emblematic Green Square.

Syrian forces killed 28 civilians on Friday on a day of massive anti-regime rallies and in shelling of villages in the northwestern province of Idlib, human rights activists said.

State television meanwhile reported that President Bashar Assad sacked the governor of Hama, a day after half a million protesters flooded the central city demanding the ouster of their embattled leader.

Moroccans on Friday overwhelmingly approved curbs on the near absolute powers of King Mohammed VI, with 98 percent voting "yes" in a referendum put forward after protests inspired by uprisings in the Arab world.

Interior Minister Taib Cherkaoui announced the result on state television after 94 percent of polling stations had reported results, adding that voter turnout had been 72.65 percent.

Bahrain's Sunni rulers opened a "national dialogue" Saturday aimed at getting reforms back on track after a deadly March crackdown on Shiite-led protests, buoyed by an 11th-hour decision by the main Shiite opposition bloc to take part.

Parliament speaker Khalifa Dhahrani told the opening session, which was broadcast by state television, that the dialogue would have "no preconditions and no ceiling" on the demands that could be raised by delegates.

Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi on Friday urged his supporters to get back the weapons that France supplied to rebels in the Nafusa mountains who are battling his regime.

"March on the jebel (Nafusa) and seize the weapons that the French have supplied. If later you want to pardon them (the rebels), that's up to you," the embattled Gadhafi said in a message played over loudspeakers in central Tripoli.

Protesters converged on Cairo's Tahrir Square on Friday to join camping pro-democracy activists for a demonstration to keep up the pressure on the country's military rulers over the pace of reforms.

Thousands of protesters were in the square including families of victims who died in the uprising to call for the trial of police officers implicated in the deaths, Agence France Presse reported.