The Financial Times today includes a report about problems navigating in the West Bank due to lack of connectivity and other technical issues with the Waze app. The article notes that maps have played an important role in shaping the Israeli Palestinian conflict.

The Guardian reports that several Arab performers have not been granted visas by the Home Office to perform at the Edinburgh Fringe festival, including some from the Palestinian territories.

The i reports that Israel has approved the construction of an underground barrier designed to prevent Hamas from digging tunnels beneath the border between Israel and Gaza. In the past Hamas has used a tunnel network to conduct terror attacks on Israel.

The Daily Mirror reports that delays have prevented a new law aimed at preventing binary options scams, many of which operate from within Israel.

On their front pages, Maariv, Yediot Ahronot and Haaretz all focus on US President Donald Trump’s statements about Charlottesville at a New York press conference. Maariv reports that President Reuven Rivlin sent a letter last night to Malcolm Hoenlein, the executive vice chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organisations. Yediot Ahronoth reprints in full an article by Alan Zimmerman, the president of Congregation Beth Israel in Charlottesville, while commentator Sima Kadmon criticises Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu for his belated reaction to the events and Trump’s comments.

Haaretz reports that the Foreign Ministry warned the Prime Minister’s Office against closing Al-Jazeera, saying it would damage Israel’s image. The report follows action by the Government Press Office to revoke – pending a hearing – the press card of senior Al-Jazeera Jerusalem correspondent Elias Karram, an Israeli citizen from Nazareth. In an interview in May 2016 with the Muslim Brotherhood television channel, Dar al-Iman, Karram said: “media work is an integral part of the resistance and its educational political activity. The journalist fulfills his role in the opposition with the pen, voice or camera because he is part of this people and he carries out resistance in his unique way.”

Israel Hayom reports that Israel intends to present new evidence and intelligence to UN Secretary-General António Guterres about the actions that have been taken by Iran and Hezbollah in the region. Guterres is scheduled to visit Israel in ten days time for his first visit since he began his term as Secretary-General.  He is expected to meet with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, President Reuven Rivlin and Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman. He is also scheduled to visit Ramallah, where he will meet with Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas and also visit the Gaza Strip.

Kan Radio reports that a Hamas security operative, who was a member of the organisation’s military wing, was killed last night in a suicide attack apparently carried out by an Salafist operative in Rafah on the Gaza-Egypt border. The Hamas Interior Ministry in Gaza announced that a Hamas security force stationed on the border arrested two suspects who approached the border with Egypt and one of them blew himself up. Palestinian newspaper Al-Quds reported that the bomber was an ISIS operative.