Three rockets fired by militants inside the Gaza Strip hit southern Israel on Saturday without causing casualties or damage, the military said.

"The three rockets hit an uninhabited area near the town of Sderot, and caused neither casualties nor damage," a spokeswoman told Agence France Presse.

A Saudi man who spent nearly seven years in an Israeli jail after he got lost in Egypt's Sinai desert has returned home, local daily al-Watan reported on Saturday.

Abdulrahman al-Atwi arrived in Riyadh on Thursday from the United States to where he was deported by Israel several months ago, the newspaper said, adding that it met him at his lawyer's residence in the Saudi capital.

Israeli troops on Saturday arrested a member of the Islamic Jihad militant group at his home in the West Bank city of Nablus, his relatives said.

Relatives of Abdallah Harouf, 24, said that troops seized him at his home near the Old City during the early hours of Saturday.

U.S. President Barack Obama made a show of support for Israel at the White House on Friday, ahead of a weekend visit to the U.S. ally by Republican presidential rival Mitt Romney.

Surrounded in the Oval Office by representatives of the pro-Israel lobby AIPAC and by U.S. lawmakers, Obama signed a law reinforcing U.S. security and military cooperation with Israel.

A Lebanese man accused of helping to plot an attack on Israeli tourists in Cyprus will go on trial before a criminal court on the resort island on September 12, state media reported on Friday.

His case was committed to trial after he appeared before a district court in the island's second city Limassol under tight security on Friday.

Hamas on Friday hailed the meeting between its leader in the Gaza Strip, Ismail Haniya, and Egypt's Islamist President Mohammed Morsi, saying it represented a "turning point" in bilateral relations.

"The meeting between (Prime Minister Ismail Haniya) and the Egyptian president (Mohammed Morsi) constitutes a real turning point in bilateral relations," Haniya's spokesman in Gaza, Taher al-Nunu, said in a statement.

Israel's Supreme Court on Friday agreed again to postpone the evacuation of the Migron settlement outpost -- set for August 1 -- by 20 days.

Friday's decision to postpone the evacuation was the second such delay agreed upon by the court.

Israel on Thursday ramped up security along its ceasefire line with Syria in the occupied Golan Heights as fighting between rebels and President Bashar Assad's regime intensified, Israeli security sources said.

With the clashes spreading across the Syrian side of the strategic plateau, Israeli troops were put on "very high" alert, an Israeli source said, speaking on condition of anonymity.

Iran's U.N. envoy on Wednesday accused Israel of staging a suicide bomb attack on an Israeli tourist bus in Bulgaria.

The envoy Mohammad Khazaee said Israel staged the attack, in which five Israelis and their Bulgarian driver were killed, as part of a campaign of "state terrorism operations and assassinations aimed at implicating others for narrow political gains."

"You've got to be prepared for anything with what's going on in Syria," said Benny Rahamim, one of a growing number of Israelis picking up gas masks as fears grow over Syria's chemical weapons.

Rahamim, 36, was visiting a mall in the dormitory town of Mevasseret Tzion, just outside Jerusalem, one of many locations nationwide where the postal service runs distribution centers for gas masks.