Parliament approved on Thursday a draft law on the delineation of Lebanon’s maritime border after introducing an amendment to article 6, two days after the cabinet’s adoption of the decree.

The adoption of the law comes amid a dispute between Lebanon and Israel over their maritime boundary. Both countries are moving to assert sovereignty over an area potentially rich in gas.

Israel's air force carried out two raids on the Gaza Strip early Thursday without causing any casualties, witnesses said.

The attacks targeted bases of the Ezzedin al-Qassam Brigades, the military branch of Hamas that controls the tiny Palestinian coastal enclave, to the east and west of Gaza City.

Lebanon filed a complaint with the United Nations Security Council on Wednesday over Israeli troops’ incursion into the Wazzani area in southern Lebanon on Monday.

The Foreign Ministry deemed the incident “a clear violation of Lebanon’s sovereignty, U.N. Security Council resolution 1701, and international law.”

A dispute between Lebanon and Israel over their maritime boundary has heated up and sparked fears of conflict as both countries move to assert sovereignty over an area potentially rich in gas.

Tension rose last month after Israel's cabinet approved a map of the country's proposed maritime borders with Lebanon and submitted it to the United Nations, which has been asked to mediate.

A rocket fired from the Gaza Strip landed in southern Israel on Wednesday, causing no damage or injuries, an Israeli police source told Agence France Presse.

The rocket, which landed in the southern Ashkelon region, comes amid increased fire from the Gaza Strip into Israel.

UNIFIL is carrying out an impartial investigation into the shooting incident between the Lebanese and Israeli troops, spokesman Neeraj Singh said on Wednesday.

“The situation along the Blue Line is calm and under control,” he told pan-Arab daily al-Hayat.

An Israeli ex-minister known for his close ties to Hosni Mubarak said on Wednesday he had offered the former president medical treatment in Israel during a meeting before the Egyptian uprising.

Speaking to Israeli military radio, Binyamin Ben Eliezer said he made the offer to Mubarak during a meeting attended by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh.

The Israeli navy's intelligence chief has said that militant groups close to the Jewish state, including Hizbullah and Hamas, are in possession of missiles capable of hitting all Israeli ports and offshore infrastructure such as oil rigs.

Brigadier General Yaron Levi spoke about the matter on Tuesday at a conference in Tel Aviv University, said Israeli daily Haaretz.

An Israeli ten-member patrol entered 30 meters deep into Lebanese territories near the southern town of Mais al-Jabal 24 hours after a shooting incident between the two sides, pan-Arab daily al-Hayat reported Wednesday.

The newspaper said that the patrol crossed the technical fence and entered the area around 1:30 pm Tuesday. It stayed there for around half an hour after searching olive groves.

The Israeli Army Artillery Corps has said it introduced major improvements to the advanced Tammuz missile, describing the new version as “a strategic surprise and deterrence force against the enemy in any coming war.”

The artillery corps described the improved missile, whose older type was used in the July 2006 war against Hizbullah, as the “most advanced and accurate in the world.”