The Independent and the Guardian report that French President Emmanuel Macron has criticised US President Donald Trump’s decision to recognise Jerusalem as the capital of Israel during a joint press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

The Mail Online reports comments by Netanyahu during his press conference with Macron, where he said that “the sooner Palestinians come to grips with reality the sooner there will be peace”.

The Guardian reports the US response to criticism after the Jerusalem announcement and quotes Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley saying that “the sky hasn’t fallen”.

In the Guardian yesterday, Moustafa Bayoumi wrote that Jared Kushner is “wreaking havoc” in the Middle East as a result of his foreign policy inexperience and close friendship with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. Bayoumi blames Kushner for being behind Trump’s move to recognise Jerusalem.

The Independent reports that an Israeli security guard was stabbed at a Jerusalem bus station on Sunday. The attack appears to be the first since Trump’s Jerusalem announcement.

The Independent reports comments by Israeli Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman on Sunday that he hopes that violent protests by the Palestinians are beginning to “calm down”.

The Times reports that Israel blew up a Hamas tunnel on the Gaza border, amid Palestinian protest and the Palestinian Authority’s (PA) refusal to meet US Vice-President Mike Pence.

The Guardian reports that UK Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson has faced criticism for pursuing a trade forum with Sudan. The initiative has been condemned by MPs who warned against pursuing investment in a country with a poor record on corruption and human rights.

Writing in the Guardian today Judith Butler and Başak Ertür argue that a petition asking Turkey to end violence against Kurds has been distorted by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s regime and its signatories vilified, adding that “we must rally behind them”.

The Times reports that “scores” of Islamic State members were able to escape the so-called caliphate by purchasing documents from Western-backed forces, a defector has claimed.

The Telegraph reports that Boris Johnson held “forthright” talks with Iran’s president on the last day of his visit to Tehran to try to win the release of an imprisoned British mother.

The FT reports that Arab foreign ministers on Sunday called on Trump to rescind his decision to recognise Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, warning that the move threatens to plunge the whole region into “more chaos, violence, bloodshed and instability”.

All the Israeli media is dominated by the various violent flashpoints over the weekend; in particular, the stabbing yesterday in Jerusalem and the discovery of another tunnel from Gaza into southern Israel.  Maariv highlights the IDF calling the “terror tunnels” a “death trap for Hamas,” whilst the other papers lead on the security guard who was stabbed in the heart outside the Jerusalem central bus station.   Israel Hayom focuses on the civilian who subdued the attacker, who said “they shouted ‘terrorist’ I didn’t hesitate to punch him,” while in Yediot Ahronot, the son of the victim is quoted as saying “dad risked his life to save others.”

Kan Radio News relates this morning that the IDF is monitoring Hamas’s reaction in wake of the discovery and neutralisation of a tunnel on the Gaza border. The heightened state of alert around the Gaza Strip is ongoing but it is not thought that Hamas will escalate the situation along the border. An IDF official said that Hamas understood that the IDF had taken action within Israeli territory and had not entered the Palestinian territories. A heightened state of alert is ongoing in the West Bank as well. The troops have been reinforced, but some of them have returned to their home units.

Maariv reflects on how this will affect Hamas, saying: “The combination of the barrier, which is being dug deep underground, and the above ground fence with its sensors and technological equipment, is closing in on Hamas and denying it one of its main strategic tools — the tunnels. Hamas knows this and is in a position of great distress.  The underlying assessment of the security establishment is that Hamas still does not want another round of violence with Israel, because of its strategic and diplomatic and economic distress… But the possibility should also not be ruled out that precisely because of its weakness and its distress, the Hamas leadership will decide to escalate the battle.” Yediot Ahronot includes a similar assessment, that “the concern is that the more tunnels Israel neutralises, the more likely becomes the possibility of escalation… Israel is basically completing its steps for hermetically closing the tunnels on the Gaza border — both by technological means as well as by the underground barrier now being built. This activity will accelerate next month in order to ‘close’ the Gaza Strip and basically, dramatically put a stop to Hamas’s military capabilities and eliminate its last strategic weapon”.

Following disturbances in the Israeli Arab Wadi Ara area, all the papers quote Defence Minister Lieberman’s call to boycott Wadi Ara.  In its editorial Haaretz criticises the minister, “singling out citizens on national and religious grounds and calling for a boycott against them are familiar characteristics of dark regimes, and they are always presented as a response to a threat”.

Kan Radio News also reports on two shooting incidents last night in the West Bank.  Shots were fired at an armoured bus near Ein Yabrud in Binyamin. No one was injured, but the windshield was damaged. The IDF found eleven bullet casings on the scene.   Shots were fired at an IDF post near Jalazone also in the Binyamin area last night. No one was injured and no damage was caused.

Haaretz notes the US Vice-President Mike Pence’s response to the Palestinian refusal to meet with him next week. Pence said: “It’s unfortunate that the Palestinian Authority is walking away again from an opportunity to discuss the future of the region, but the administration remains undeterred in its efforts to help achieve peace between Israelis and Palestinians and our peace team remains hard at work putting together a plan.”

Israel Hayom and Yediot Ahronot report Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s response to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, who said: “Erdogan has attacked Israel. You ask what is my response. I’m not used to receiving lectures about morality from a leader who bombs Kurdish villagers in his native Turkey, who jails journalists, who helps Iran go around international sanctions and who helps terrorists, including in Gaza kill innocent people.”