The online editions of the Guardian and Independent both report that at least one rocket was fired from the Gaza Strip and landed in Israel yesterday evening. No injuries or damage was reported, but it signalled the first firing of mid-range rockets into Israel since Operation Protective Edge last summer. No group has taken responsibility for the rocket fire, but Israel invariably holds Hamas responsible for such incidents as Gaza’s de facto ruler.

Meanwhile, the Telegraph online covers an Amnesty International report which documents “spine-chilling” accounts of killings and torture carried out by Hamas against fellow Palestinians during last summer’s conflict. The Times says that Egypt claims to have destroyed 521 smuggling tunnels from the Gaza Strip into the Sinai Peninsula during the last six months. The tunnels are used to smuggle weapons and fighters to attack Egyptian forces. The article also says that Hamas has begun digging fresh tunnels into Israel.

The Independent and the online edition of the Telegraph both report that Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is thought to have proposed a return to peace talks with the Palestinian Authority (PA), focusing initially on defining the borders of West Bank settlement blocs.

The Telegraph says that a serving 19-year-old corporal in the IDF has been sentenced to a week in military prison after appearing on a panel in a Deutsche Welle debate in which he argued that “the occupation is destroying Israel.”

The Financial Times online reports that Israel’s antitrust regulator David Gilo has resigned after it was announced that the government is nearing a deal with investors over the split in profits from the off-shore Leviathan natural gas field. Gilo ruled last year that the two main investors would need to loosen their control on the project, prompting a freeze in its development.

The Guardian online reports that Prime Minister David Cameron and Russia’s President Vladimir Putin spoke by phone and agreed the importance of resuming talks to find a solution to Syria’s ongoing civil war. In Syria itself, the Times online says that President Assad’s forces suffered a demoralising defeat at a hospital in the Idlib province.

The Financial Times online covers comments made by a senior Russian official who said that delivery of the S-300 anti-missile system to Iran will not take place in the near future. In Iran, the Telegraph covers the trial of Washington Post correspondent Jason Rezaian, which began in secret yesterday, and suggests that Rezaian could be used by Tehran as a bargaining chip with the United States in ongoing nuclear talks.

In the Israeli media, the top item in Yediot Ahronot, Maariv, Haaretz and Israel Hayom is the rocket fire from the Gaza Strip which last night landed in Gan Yavne near Ashdod. Most reports assess that the attack was the result of an internal Islamic Jihad dispute, rather than a coordinated Hamas attack. However, Defence Minister Moshe Ya’alon made clear that Hamas will be held responsible as the de facto Gaza ruler. Writing in NRG, Amir Rapaport comments that the volume of rocket fire from Gaza over the past few months is at its lowest “since the first Kassam rocket was fired into Sderot some 15 years ago.”

Maariv reports that Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat is angry that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has seemingly reneged on a pledge to dismantle the Jerusalem Ministry, instead handing it to Ze’ev Elkin after he relinquished the intelligence portfolio to Gilad Erdan.

Yediot Ahronot and Haaretz are both critical of Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon, who had promised to help manage Israel’s potentially lucrative natural gas market, but yesterday said that he cannot play such a role due to his friendship with a major investor in the industry.