Thousands of young Israeli hardliners marched Thursday to demand the government build new settler homes in E1, a highly sensitive strip of West Bank land near Jerusalem.

Police said more than 6,000 people, almost all of them teenagers, joined the march which began in Maaleh Adumim settlement and ended at E1 - an undeveloped stretch of land just to the west, which borders annexed east Jerusalem.

Yemen has handed over 29 Saudis wanted for suspected links to al-Qaida, the interior ministry announced on Thursday.

"As part of joint efforts between security services in the two countries, the kingdom has received 29 Saudis... (who) had joined al-Qaida in Yemen," interior ministry spokesman General Mansur al-Turki told Agence France Presse.

Israeli newspapers bristled on Thursday after the European Parliament president criticized the Gaza Strip blockade and suggested that Israelis received four times more water than Palestinians.

The spat, which erupted on Wednesday after the far-right Jewish Home party stormed out of parliament in protest during a speech by Martin Schultz, made the front pages of Israel's main newspapers.

The trial of two Tunisian policemen on charges of raping a young woman in 2012 resumed behind closed doors on Thursday, after repeated delays described by the victim as an "ordeal."

"It's a case that touches on moral issues, we ask everyone present to leave the room," the judge said as the hearing began.

Israeli troops shot dead a Palestinian man near the border fence in the northern Gaza Strip on Thursday, the Gaza health ministry said.

"Ibrahim Suleiman Mansur, 26, died after he was shot by Israeli occupation forces while he was collecting gravel... east of Gaza City," ministry spokesman Ashraf al-Qudra told Agence France Presse.

Britain said Thursday it was "outrageous" that Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime had been detaining men and boys evacuated from the ravaged city of Homs.

Foreign Secretary William Hague said there was a risk that the evacuation could be the pretext for further attacks on Homs.

A U.S. naval ship was to stop in Spain Thursday while it waits for Syrian authorities to hand over chemical weapons so it can destroy them at sea, diplomats said.

The MV Cape Ray container ship "will be anchored from today at the Rota naval base in a routine visit" for rest and supplies on Spain's south coast, the U.S. embassy said in a statement.

Human Rights Watch called on Libyan authorities Thursday to provide proper defense counsel to slain dictator Moammar Gadhafi's son and top aides to ensure they receive a fair trial.

The New York-based watchdog said that during visits by its staff last month, both Seif al-Islam Gadhafi and former spy chief Abdullah Senussi had complained that they had no representation at all during interrogations and pre-trial hearings in their prosecution for gross abuses during the 2011 uprising.

Counter-terror police searched a house in northwest England Thursday after the reported death of a Briton in Syria, a day after raiding a home related to an alleged suicide bomber.

The BBC named the dead man as Anil Khalil Raoufi from the Didsbury district of Manchester.

Yemen has handed over 29 Saudis wanted for suspected links to Al-Qaida, the interior ministry announced on Thursday.

"As part of joint efforts between security services in the two countries, the kingdom has received 29 Saudis... (who) had joined Al-Qaida in Yemen," interior ministry spokesman General Mansur al-Turki told AFP.