Reuters and the Daily Express reports that Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has issued a warning to bitter rivals Saudi Arabia that any move to negotiate with Israel would be an “unforgivable mistake”. Khamenei made the threat after Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman said Israelis were entitled to live peacefully on their own land. In response to bin Salman’s comments, Khamenei branded Israel an “oppressive regime” and urged the Saudis not to negotiate with the Jewish state.

The Daily Mail via AFP reports that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hit out at Iran after President Hassan Rouhani accused Israel of supporting “terrorists” in Syria. “Absurdity has no limits: Iran’s terrorist regime that sends tentacles of terror across the region accuses Israel of terrorism,” Netanyahu wrote on Twitter. Earlier on Wednesday, during a summit in Ankara with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Russia’s Vladimir Putin, Rouhani denounced “the daily support of the Zionist regime for terrorists in Syria”.

The Daily Mail via AFP reports that hundreds of people protested on Wednesday in Jerusalem against Netanyahu’s cancellation of an agreement with the United Nations aimed at avoiding forced deportations of thousands of African migrants. Carrying banners reading “stop the expulsion”, demonstrators denounced Netanyahu’s decision to scrap the deal on Tuesday just hours after he announced it.

The Daily Mail via AP reports that Palestinian activists chanted “death is better than humiliation” as people drove into a tent camp in a barley field near Gaza’s border. The tyres are to be burned at a mass protest on Friday, in hopes clouds of black smoke will shield demonstrators from Israeli snipers.

The Independent, BBC News Online and the Telegraph report that American troops will remain in Syria for now to finish the fight against ISIL, despite US President Donald Trump pushing for them to return home. The United States remains “committed” to defeating the small amount of Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) fighters “not already eradicated”, a statement from the White House confirmed on Wednesday. However it also said the mission “is coming to a rapid end” and that countries in the region must help ensure the terror group does not re-emerge in the future.

The Guardian and the Independent report that Israel’s airports authority has refused to display adverts informing female passengers that it is illegal for airline staff to ask them to move seats at the behest of ultra-Orthodox Jewish men. The Israel Religious Action Center (IRAC) had planned to display the billboard adverts at Ben Gurion airport during Passover. IRAC’s ads, which read “Ladies, please take your seat … and keep it!” remind passengers that requests to change seats on the grounds of gender are illegal. The organisation, which is linked to the Movement for Reform Judaism, also released a video encouraging female passengers to report any such requests. It follows a court ruling in June in which a judge ruled that “under absolutely no circumstances can a crew member ask a passenger to move from their designated seat because the adjacent passenger doesn’t want to sit next to them due to their gender”.

The Independent reports that a Palestinian football player filmed the moment he appears to get shot in the knee, destroying the joint and his career. Mohammed Khalil, who played for a football club in the Gaza Strip, was apparently shot by an Israeli soldier as he protested near the border last week. Footage of the shooting was posted on Twitter by the Palestinian journalist Mohammed Kareem. Kareem said Khalil now needs knee replacement surgery in order to be able to walk again.

The Independent reports that the number of people arrested for “incitement to violence” through online activity or social media posts has skyrocketed in the last few years, sparking increasing worries over freedom of expression from Palestinian rights organisations. Worried that inflammatory content online has fuelled a spike in recent violence known as the “Jerusalem Intifada”, Israel created a cybercrime unit in October 2015 to monitor and censor what is published on the internet.

The Telegraph, BBC News Online, the Sun, the Evening Standard, the Daily Express and the Spectator report on the ongoing story of Jeremy Corbyn and antisemitism in the Labour Party. Jewish community leaders have agreed to meet Jeremy Corbyn to discuss his efforts to tackle antisemitism in the Labour Party. However, the Board of Deputies and the Jewish Leadership Council have repeated their warning to the Labour leader that action is needed “not words”. The details and date of the meeting have yet to be decided. The Spectator reports onthe letter published in the Guardian on Monday defending Jeremy Corbyn from accusations of antisemitism. In particular it noted that the signatories of that letter, who the Guardian described as being ‘forty senior academics’, were in fact, nothing of the sort.

The Financial Times reports that rivalry between competing powers in the Middle East is piling pressure on the economy of Lebanon, already under severe strain from one of the world’s biggest debt burdens and the damage wreaked by the seven-year war in neighbouring Syria. A conference to be hosted by French President Emmanuel Macron, in Paris on Friday is expected to produce a show of support from European governments and multilateral institutions, concerned about the estimated 1m Syrian refugees in Lebanon and the risk of a further wave of migration to Europe if the situation deteriorates further. However, Lebanon’s traditional supporters in the Gulf are less willing to help than before, analysts say.

The Guardian and the Independent reports that Egyptian police have raided the office of a news website and arrested its Editor-in-Chief as part of a wider crack down on media that reported allegations of vote buying during last month’s presidential election.

The Israeli media continues to focus on the repercussions of Netanyahu cancelling of the deal with the UN on African migrants and accusing the New Israel Fund of helping to foil a previous agreement with Rwanda to take in the migrants.

Maariv reports on the possibility that the government will seek to advance an “overriding clause”. Next week Minister of Education Naftali Bennett and Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked are expected to advance the clause which would enable the Knesset to override Supreme Court decisions to allow the Knesset to re-enact the Prevention of Infiltration Law in its first version, which was initially struck down by the Court.

The Jerusalem Post and Army Radio report that the Rwandan Minister of State in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Olivier Nduhungirehe took to social media on Wednesday, dismissing any possibility that the New Israel Fund (NIF) influenced his country’s actions regarding Israel. ”I am extremely surprised,” he said. “Rwanda doesn’t even know what this New Israel Fund is all about, but more from the assumption that a foreign NGO can successfully impose any pressure on a sovereign government named Rwanda.”

The Times of Israel reports that the New Israel Fund is mulling legal action against the Prime Minister for what it calls “unprecedented lies”. Executive Director of the New Israel Fund Mickey Gitzin told YNET that Netanyahu’s attack was an attempt to “distract the public’s attention away from his failure and to terrorise organisations such as ours to make us fearful…We’ve seen him dividing Israeli society, but this time he is lying to an unprecedented degree and we’re examining legally whether we can sue him for slander.”

Maariv and Israel Hayom focus on the IDF preparations for Friday’s demonstrations in Gaza which are expected to involve Palestinians burning thousands of tyres to make it harder for the IDF to prevent its operatives approaching the border fence. Yediot Ahronot reports that IAF aircraft targeted an armed Palestinian adjacent to the security fence in the northern Gaza strip last night.

The Times of Israel reports further on the phone conversation between Trump and Netanyahu, reporting claims from US officials, that the phone conversation grew tense over American plans to leave Syria. Trump is said to be pushing to leave Syria to the “dismay of security agencies and allies”.

Army Radio reports that in closed security meeting, Mossad Chief Yossi Cohen said that the nuclear P5+1 deal was a “terrible mistake,” and must be “completely changed or scrapped” adding that he is “100 per cent certain” Iran still seeks a nuclear bomb.

Israel Hayom reports on the trilateral meeting in Ankara between Russia, Iran and Turkey about Syria.