An Israeli military court on Sunday sentenced a former military leader of Hamas to multiple life sentences after convicting him of ordering the killing of dozens of Israelis, the army said.

"The Ofer military court sentenced Ibrahim Hamed to 54 life sentences," a statement said, referring to an Israeli court and prison complex located in the West Bank between Jerusalem and Ramallah.

Both official media and an opposition group on Sunday branded as a failure a world powers deal on a transition plan for Syria a day after at least 120 people were reported killed in violence nationwide.

World powers meeting in Geneva on Saturday agreed a transition plan that could include current regime members, but the West did not see any role for President Bashar Assad in a new unity government.

At least 21 people were killed in fighting across Syria on Sunday, a watchdog said, with rebels and regime troops clashing in several provinces as they battled for control of restive areas.

Regime forces shelled several areas of Damascus province, a day after mortar fire killed at least 30 civilians attending a funeral in the town of Zamalka, 10 kilometers (six miles) east of the capital, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

Unknown assailants shot and wounded a Palestinian lawmaker in the city of Jenin overnight, he told AFP, after the city's governor was targeted in a shooting incident in early May.

Shami al-Shami, a member of the Fatah party of President Mahmoud Abbas, was hit in the thigh by two bullets, he told AFP, saying he was treated at a local hospital after the incident in the early hours of Sunday morning.

A Yemeni soldier and an Al-Qaida militant were killed Sunday as jihadists tried to raid a village in the southern province of Daleh, the Defense Ministry's website reported.

Security forces "foiled an attempt by a group of Al-Qaida terrorists to infiltrate into ... the village of Shueib in Daleh province early on Sunday," Daleh security chief, General Ali al-Amri, was quoted as saying on 26sept.net, website of the Defense Ministry.

Both official media and an opposition group on Sunday branded as a failure a world powers deal on a transition plan for Syria a day after more than 80 people were reported killed in violence nationwide.

World powers meeting in Geneva on Saturday agreed a transition plan that could include current regime members, but the West did not see any role for President Bashar Assad in a new unity government.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has sent a letter to Egypt's newly elected President Mohamed Morsi, urging him to uphold a peace treaty between the two countries, a source told AFP on Sunday.

The letter, first reported by Israeli daily Haaretz on Sunday morning, "stressed Israel's desire to continue cooperation and to strengthen the peace," an Israeli source said on condition of anonymity.

Renewed tribal clashes in the Libyan city of Kufra have claimed at least 47 lives and left more than 100 others wounded in three days, local leaders and a medic told Agence France Presse on Saturday.

"Thirty-two have been killed this week in the two Toubou residential areas," a medic treating Toubou casualties in Kufra told AFP.

Bombings and shootings in Iraq killed three police, two soldiers and two civilians on Saturday, security and medical officials said.

Two roadside bombs at a checkpoint west of Samarra killed three federal policemen and wounded three others, police and a medical source at the Samarra hospital said.

Ex-prime minister Yitzhak Shamir, a former soldier, spy and statesman, has died at the age of 96, Israeli officials announced on Saturday.

"Yitzhak Shamir has left us," current Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office said in a statement.