There is ongoing coverage of the tensions between Iran and Saudi Arabia. The Guardian online says that Tehran has accused the Saudi authorities of “adding fuel to the fire,” since executing a senior Shia cleric, which led to the Saudi embassy and other missions in Iran being attacked. According to the Financial Times and Independent i, Iran’s president Hassan Rouhani has called on the country’s judiciary to urgently prosecute those who carried out the attacks.

The Telegraph reports that two Israeli Arab passengers on an Aegean Airlines flight from Athens to Tel Aviv were removed from a plane after a group of Jewish Israeli passengers insisted they were a security threat and requested that they be removed from the aircraft. The Independent online provides an update, saying that Aegean Airlines has issued an apology to the two passengers.

The Times, Independent i and the online edition of the Guardian all report that Israeli journalist Eitam Lachover was lightly injured yesterday when testing out a new protective vest for a television programme. He was stabbed in the back while wearing the equipment, which failed to prevent him from injury. The new vest was designed in light of the numerous knife attacks on Israelis during the past three months.

The Financial Times includes a feature on the maturing and growing start-up scene in Israel.

The Independent i says that Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas delivered a forty-minute televised speech yesterday, dispelling recent rumours of ill health. The same publication says that the first new hospital in Gaza for ten years has opened. The “Indonesia Hospital” serves more than 250 people per day and cost around £6.5 million to build.

Meanwhile, in Syria, the Times and the online edition of the Guardian both report that around 40,000 people in Madaya, the last rebel-held town on the Lebanese border are being slowly starved by Syrian regime troops, supported by Hezbollah fighters.

In the Israeli media, the manhunt for Nashat Milhem, the suspected gunman who shot two people dead in a Tel Aviv bar last Friday, continues to make headlines. The lead stories in both Yediot Ahronot and Maariv say that Milhem is now thought to have escaped to Palestinian-controlled territory in the West Bank. In another development in the case, Israel Radio news says that MIlhem is now thought to have also carried out the murder of a taxi driver in north Tel Aviv shortly after the bar shooting. The front page headline in Israel Hayom is “Making a toast in their memory,” noting that the bar which was attacked has now reopened.

There is also ongoing coverage of North Korea’s claim that it has tested a hydrogen bomb. It is a major item in Maariv, Haaretz and Israel Hayom. Providing an Israeli perspective in Yediot Ahronot, Ronen Bergman says that the necessary conclusion is that “no one truly can stop a country that is bent on developing nuclear weapons at any price,” calling it “very troubling for anyone in Israel and the West who hopes that the nuclear agreement” with Iran “is actually upheld.”

Israel Radio news reports that masked men threw two firebombs at an Israeli car near the West Bank settlement of Yakir. No injuries were reported.

Meanwhile, both Maariv and Israel Hayom prominently report that as of yesterday, the online video streaming service Netflix is available in Israel.