Iran is seeking to transfer state-of the-art weaponry from storehouses in Syria to Hizbullah, the Israeli Foreign Ministry director-general Dore Gold told The Jerusalem Post from Berlin.

The weapons include the SA-22 (Pantsir- S1) air defense system and the Y‑akhont anti-ship cruise missile, said Gold, who is on his first trip to a European capital for high-level talks.

Israeli air raids on a Syrian army position in the Golan Heights killed one person and wounded seven others, a Syrian military source said Friday.

"The enemy aircraft struck a military position in the area of Quneitra at 11:30 pm (2030 GMT Thursday), martyring one and wounding seven soldiers," said the source, quoted by the official news agency SANA.

President Barack Obama wrote in a letter to Congress that the U.S. will uphold sanctions targeting Iran's non-nuclear activities, such as its support for Hizbullah.

Obama promised Democratic lawmakers that the U.S. will continue to keep economic pressure on Iran — and keep military options open — if his administration's nuclear deal with Tehran goes through.

When Mohammed Allan's friends found out he was launching a hunger strike, they knew his stubbornness meant he would not give up easily.

"We knew he would go until the end with it," Odai Alaweyeh told AFP of the 31-year-old Palestinian lawyer said to be a member of militant movement Islamic Jihad.

Four rockets fired from war-wracked Syria struck northern Israel and the occupied Golan Heights on Thursday, causing fires but no injuries, the Israeli military and security sources said.

"Four rockets were launched from the Syrian Golan Heights, landing in the Upper Galilee and the Israeli Golan Heights," the military said in a statement. "No injuries have been reported."

Palestinian detainee Mohammed Allan ended a two-month hunger strike Thursday that had put his life at risk and sparked intense debate over his detention without trial by Israeli authorities, his lawyer said.

His decision to stop his protest came after Israel's top court late Wednesday suspended his detention without trial, but ordered him to remain in hospital pending a final decision on his case.

Israel on Wednesday suspended a detention-without-trial order on ailing Palestinian hunger striker Mohammed Allan without releasing him, ordering him to stay in hospital pending a final decision on his fate.

"Due to the petitioner's medical condition he will remain in intensive care," said the ruling on Allan's case, seen by AFP.

U.S. presidential contender Mike Huckabee said during a visit to Jerusalem on Wednesday that he did not consider the West Bank occupied by Israel -- a stand sharply at odds with much of the world.

The Republican and Baptist minister, a regular visitor to Israel, attended a fundraiser for his campaign on Tuesday at a Jewish settlement in the Palestinian territory.

The Palestinian Authority on Tuesday accused Hamas of holding secret talks with Israel that would endorse the separation of Palestinian territories.

Arab and Turkish media have carried reports, picked up by Israeli media, claiming Israel and the Palestinian Islamist movement that rules the Gaza Strip were holding talks.

The United States expressed concern Tuesday regarding Israel's treatment of U.S. citizens traveling to the country following recent reports of Palestinian-Americans being denied entry. 

"The U.S. government seeks equal treatment and freedom to travel for all U.S. citizens regardless of national origin or ethnicity," State Department spokesman John Kirby said.