A diplomatic spat has erupted between Israel and Romania after Bucharest reportedly refused to allow Romanian construction workers to be employed in West Bank settlements, Israel's military radio said Tuesday.

The row comes in the wake of tensions between Israel and the European Union over new guidelines that bar EU funding for any Israeli entity operating in the occupied Palestinian territories.

The Palestinian Hamas movement has "resumed" relations with Iran after a temporary falling out over the Syrian conflict, a senior member of the Islamist movement said Monday.

"Relations between Hamas and Iran have resumed," Mahmoud al-Zahar told reporters at a news conference in Gaza, the Palestinian enclave ruled by Hamas since 2007.

A top Palestinian negotiator on Thursday said peace talks with Israel were "difficult and complicated", after a meeting between Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry.

"The situation is still very difficult and matters are complicated," Saeb Erakat told Agence France Presse.

French experts have ruled out a theory that Yasser Arafat was killed by poisoning, a source close to the investigation into the Palestinian leader's 2004 death told Agence France Presse.

"The report rules out the poisoning theory and goes in the sense of a natural death," the source said.

A personal dispute in the Sabra area erupted into heavy gunfire that echoed in the vicinity of the Shatila Palestinian refugee camp and the Tariq al-Jedideh neighborhood on Sunday evening.

MTV said "a personal dispute between a man nicknamed al-Zir and another identified as A. J. erupted into gunfire in the vicinity of the Shatila camp in Beirut."

The Foreign Press Association on Sunday accused the Israeli army of "deliberately targeting" journalists after soldiers fired rubber bullets and threw a stun grenade at photojournalists clearly identified as press.

In a statement, the Tel Aviv-based group, which represents journalists of all foreign media, said troops had directly targeted a group of photographers covering skirmishes at Qalandia crossing between Jerusalem and Ramallah.

Palestinian security forces arrested 20 Salafists, a senior source said Sunday after a Gaza-based group affiliated with al-Qaida confirmed it was operating in the West Bank for the first time.

But the Ramallah-based source denied that any of those arrested in a series of recent raids in the northern part of the Israeli-occupied West Bank had ties to the global jihadist group set up by the late Osama Bin-Laden.

Caretaker Prime Minister Najib Miqati urged the international community on Friday to support Lebanon and end the fighting in neighboring Syria to bring back tranquility to it.

During a speech on the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, Miqati urged the world “to support Lebanon at all levels and stop the fighting in Syria through a formula that the Syrians agree to.”

Palestinian Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah stressed on Thursday that the Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon are under the control of the Lebanese state, pointing out that they are keen to safeguard security and stability in the country.

“Any violations that occur are individual and isn't linked to us,” Hamdallah said during a press conference with his Lebanese counterpart Najib Miqati at the Grand Serail.

 Israeli President Shimon Peres said Wednesday that peace with the Palestinians was urgent and possible amid faltering negotiations between the two sides.

Peres, speaking during a visit to Mexico City, said he welcomed the new round of talks, revived in July with the aim of reaching an agreement within nine months.