Israel faced mounting international criticism Tuesday over a new law allowing the appropriation of private Palestinian land for Jewish settler outposts, but the United States remained notably silent.

Egypt on Tuesday applauded U.S. President Donald Trump's claims that Western media outlets have deliberately not reported on "terrorist" attacks.

The Israeli High Court on Tuesday ordered the removal of parts of a Jewish settlement outpost that were built on private Palestinian land, hours after parliament passed a law legalizing similar cases.

A new Israeli law legalizing dozens of Jewish outposts built on private Palestinian land crossed a "thick red line" towards annexation of the occupied West Bank, the United Nations said Tuesday.

Air strikes on Syria's former al-Qaida affiliate in the country's northwest on Tuesday killed 26 people, including civilians, a monitoring group told AFP. 

Kuwait's emir on Tuesday issued a decree accepting the resignation of the information and youth minister who quit before facing a confidence vote over an international sports ban.

Emir Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad Al-Sabah appointed the state minister for cabinet affairs as the new information minister and handed the youth portfolio to the commerce minister, state-run KUNA news agency said.

Saudi police arrested an apparently "mentally disturbed" man who tried to set himself on fire at Islam's holiest site, the Grand Mosque in Mecca, a police spokesman said on Tuesday.

The man, in his 40s and a Saudi citizen, "poured petrol on himself and tried to set it alight," Grand Mosque police spokesman Major Sameh al-Salami said.

Syrian President Bashar Assad has said that "defending" his country in a time of war was more important than any international tribunal that may be brought against his government later.

His comments to Belgian media came as rights watchdog Amnesty International accused the regime of hanging 13,000 at an infamous prison near Damascus.

The Arab League accused Israel on Tuesday of "stealing the land" of Palestinians after the Israeli parliament passed a law legalising dozens of Jewish outposts in the occupied West Bank.

"The law in question is only a cover for stealing the land and appropriating the property of Palestinians," said the head of the Cairo-based League, Ahmed Aboul Gheit.

The Israeli parliament on Monday finalized a controversial law legalizing dozens of Jewish outposts built on private Palestinian land in the occupied West Bank.