Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday said his country is ready to strike Iran's nuclear sites "if necessary."

An Israeli TV network said Sunday that Netanyahu and Defense Minister Ehud Barak in 2010 ordered the army to prepare an attack against Iranian nuclear installations, though the order was later rescinded.

An Israeli military vehicle on the occupied Golan Heights was hit by gunfire from neighboring Syria on Monday, the Israeli army said.

"A military vehicle traveling in the Golan was hit by gunfire from Syria. Apparently they were stray bullets, and there were no injuries" to those aboard the vehicle, a military spokesman told Agence France Presse.

Saudi King Abdullah on Monday appointed as interior minister Prince Mohammed bin Nayef, who has led a crackdown on al-Qaida and survived a suicide bomb attack claimed by the jihadists.

The monarch removed half-brother Prince Ahmed bin Abdul Aziz from the position "upon his request," according to a royal decree published on SPA state news agency, adding that he replaced him with Prince Mohammed.

Syria's main opposition bloc, under U.S. pressure to reshape into a widely representative government-in-exile, agreed on Monday to broaden its structure to accommodate 13 other groups, a spokesman said.

The decision by the Syrian National Council came on the second day of a four-day meeting of opposition groups in the Qatari capital Doha aimed at forging a more united front against Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime.

The Palestinians will push on with a bid to achieve non-member status at the United Nations despite pressure for them to back down, top negotiator Saeb Erakat said on Monday.

"No matter what pressure we are facing... we will not go back on our decision," Erakat said in Amman after talks in the Jordanian capital between Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Arab League chief Nabil al-Arabi.

Syrian rebels launched a devastating car bomb attack Monday that killed 50 pro-regime fighters, a watchdog said, as air strikes pounded rebel positions and the opposition met for talks on an overhaul.

The suicide car bomb attack on a military post in the central province of Hama struck early Monday, killing at least 50 government troops and loyalist militiamen, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.

Eight people have been arrested over the death of an opposition party official last month during a protest by supporters of Tunisia's ruling Islamists that turned violent, his family said on Monday.

"They arrested eight people yesterday (Sunday)," said Fethi Naguedh, the brother-in-law of Lotfi Naguedh, who represented the Call of Tunisia party in the southern town of Tataouine, where the violence took place.

A Swiss laboratory team on Monday made a brief visit to the West Bank city of Ramallah to prepare for the exhumation of the late president Yasser Arafat, Palestinian sources said.

The team, along with French investigators, is expected to participate in an operation starting on November 26 to exhume Arafat's remains as part of a probe into the circumstances of his death in 2004.

More than 30 people were killed in a 24-hour period in a Palestinian refugee camp south of the Syrian capital Damascus amid fierce clashes between the army and rebels, Palestinian sources said on Monday.

Seven people were killed Monday when a mortar landed on a mini-bus traveling along the western edge of the Yarmouk Palestinian camp, according to Palestinian sources and Syrian state television.

Israeli prosecutors have charged two Jewish youths with vandalising Palestinian cars and incitement to racism, a police statement said on Monday.

It said that they were arrested on October 21 and last week charged with puncturing the tires of Palestinian-owned vehicles in the West Bank and east Jerusalem.