The ongoing violent attacks across Israel are covered by the Telegraph, which details four further stabbings yesterday, injuring eight Israelis in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Afula and the West Bank town of Kiryat Arba. The article also highlights an order by Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to ban visits by government ministers and Knesset members to the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, an emotive flashpoint, in an attempt to calm tensions. The Independent also covers yesterday’s violence, describing a growing fear on Israel’s streets as the attacks continue. The Times reports the latest incidents, focusing on IDF undercover tactics among crowds of Palestinian rioters and notes that opposition leader Isaac Herzog has called for Netanyahu’s resignation. The Guardian online says that there are fears of further violence today, with some Palestinian factions calling for a “Day of rage” coinciding with Friday Muslim prayers.

The online editions of the Guardian and Telegraph cover claims in the American media that Russian cruise missiles which were fired on Wednesday from a distance of more than one thousand miles at targets in Syria, eventually landed in open areas in Iran. Both publications, plus the Financial Times online also cover comments made by US Secretary of Defence Ash Carter, who warned Russia that involvement in Syria will spark reprisals against Russian forces. It is a sentiment echoed in a Times editorial, which says that Russian President Putin “overestimates his powers” and that his actions will inevitably ignite Sunni anger in the region aimed at Russian interests.

The Israeli media is dominated by coverage of the continuing violence, with four separate attacks on Israelis yesterday. The headline in Yediot Ahronot refers to “Unending terror” and the first several pages of Israel Hayom are devoted to coverage of each separate terror incident. Israel Radio news reports that Israeli forces are working with intelligence officials as they continue the search this morning for the man who stabbed an Israeli in Kiryat Arba yesterday.

There is also significant coverage of a press conference held yesterday by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, alongside Defence Minister Moshe Ya’alon, Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan and the heads of the IDF and Israel Police. It is the top item in Maariv and Israel Hayom, as the country’s leaders spoke out to calm the Israeli public. Netanyahu called for national unity and even suggested that the opposition Zionist Union would be welcomed into his coalition given the current circumstances. All of those who spoke said that Israeli forces would soon restore quiet and IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eizenkot assured that the army has full freedom of action to quell the violence. Writing in Yediot Ahronot, Shimon Schiffer says that Netanyahu’s comments were essentially “recycled clichés” and that he should instead tackle the real issues.

Israel Radio news says that a Jewish extremist, Meir Ettinger, who was placed under administrative detention over his involvement in anti-Arab violence, has launched a hunger strike. Ettinger claims that he has been denied phone contact with his wife and will refuse food until they are permitted to speak. Hunger strikes have increasingly been employed as a tactic by Palestinian administrative detainees to protest their incarceration.