The United States could let Iran partially enrich uranium in return for strict measures to curb its ability to build a nuclear bomb, the Los Angeles Times reported Friday.

In what would be a major concession, Washington could agree to allow Tehran to enrich uranium up to five percent purity if the Islamic Republic agrees to unrestricted inspections of its nuclear sites and other conditions, the newspaper said, citing U.S. officials.

President Shimon Peres on Thursday distanced himself from the Israeli premier's comparison between the Holocaust and the threat posed by Iran's nuclear program.

"It's not the same thing," Peres told the Ynet website of Yediot Aharonot newspaper in an interview for Israel's Independence Day.

Russia on Thursday joined the United States and the European Union in expressing concern over Israel's decision to legalize three settler outposts in West Bank.

"Moscow is treating this information with serious concern," the foreign ministry said in a statement, noting that the move in the occupied Palestinian territory "affects the chances" of new talks being held by the two sides.

Western security sources warned that the situation in Lebanon is “very delicate” as they fear that it would turn into a conflict arena between international and regional powers, al-Joumhouria newspaper reported on Thursday.

“Suspected extremist groups could be plotting attacks in Lebanon on foreign interests that are playing a critical role in the Syrian crisis,” the report said.

A man and his two children crossed from Lebanon into Israel on Wednesday and were immediately detained by Israeli troops, witnesses and Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency reported.

The incident took place at the Fatima Gate in southern Lebanon, facing the Israeli town of Metulla, the agency said.

Israel's military chief toned down the rhetoric over Iran's nuclear program on Wednesday, describing the Iranian leadership as "very rational" and unlikely to take the decision to build a bomb.

Speaking to Haaretz newspaper, Lieutenant General Benny Gantz said Iran was approaching the point at which it would be able to decide on whether to build a bomb, but that Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei had not yet decided "whether to go the extra mile."

Israeli Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz warned on Wednesday that a nuclear Iran would give itself freedom of action against Israel through Hizbullah and other militants.

That freedom might be expressed "against us, via the force Iran will project toward its clients: Hizbullah in Lebanon, Islamic Jihad in Gaza,” Gantz told Israeli dailies in Independence Day interviews.

Israel decided on Tuesday to legalese three settler outposts, which the Palestinians denounced as a response to a letter from president Mahmoud Abbas demanding a halt to settlement activity if peace talks are to resume.

A ministerial committee has decided "to formalize the status of three communities which were established in the 1990s," the office of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said.

A senior Egyptian minister said on Monday her country is ready to resume gas exports to Israel but at a new price, after scrapping a long-term contract.

International Cooperation Minister "Fayza Abul Naga said the Egyptian side had no objections to reaching a new contract with new conditions and a new price," the official MENA news agency reported.

Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip fired a rocket which hit open ground in southern Israel on Monday, without causing casualties, Israeli police said.

"There was a rocket that was fired... No damage or injuries were caused," police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld told Agence France Presse.