David Aarnovitch writes in the The Times that the violence in Gaza this week is “a perfect expression of the default strategies of the protagonists”. Aarnovitch says that each side has settled into a malign pattern: “The Palestinian weapon is demographics: they are outgrowing the boundaries that contain them and the forces that occupy them. The Israeli weapon is separation backed by force.” As a result, peace becomes harder to fathom.

Also writing in The Times, Bel Trew attempts to explain why Palestinians decide to protest on the border despite the risks involved. Trew cites several Palestinian parents who say that they take their children to the protests to remind them that “they were refugees forced from their ancestral lands in Israel when it was founded 70 years ago this week”.

The Guardian reports that the UN’s top human rights body will hold a special session to discuss “the deteriorating situation in the occupied Palestinian territories”. The article also cites a senior Israeli military spokesman who said the killings by Israeli soldiers had handed a PR victory to Hamas.

In an opinion piece also in The Guardian, Maya Ilany says that Monday’s events have been “on the cards for at least two years,” describing how warnings from many top Israeli military generals have been ignored by the Israeli government. Ilany goes on to write that “Israel’s right-wing politicians claim to be the only ones who can be trusted with the country’s security, yet they show a reckless disregard for the dangerous consequences of their policies”.

The Express leads with the headline: ‘World War 3: Tensions BOIL OVER as Israeli PM’s son FURIOUSLY SLAMS Turkey on social media’. The article claims that Yair Benjamin’s “explicit and controversial Instagram post” sparked outrage in Turkey, amid a drastically increasing diplomatic crisis with Ankara over Monday’s massacre in Gaza. The Prime Minister’s Office commented on the post saying: “Yair Netanyahu is a private citizen as is his Instagram page.”

The Financial Times writes that the US and EU are heading for a showdown over US secondary sanctions after President Donald Trump withdrew the US from the JCPOA nuclear agreement. The article focuses on the Belgium-based Swift network, whose financial messaging system facilitates cross-border payments, and which was reopened to more than 11,000 Iranian banks following the nuclear deal. “The question now is whether the EU will co-operate with any US requests for those connections to be severed again and whether Swift will find itself caught in the crossfire of a transatlantic dispute over sanctions,” the article says.

BBC News Online report that the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) said “chlorine is likely to have been used in an attack on a rebel-held town in northern Syria in February”. The Syrian government denied ever using chemical weapons in the attack, which led to US, UK and French retaliatory strikes. The report also notes that the OPCW is also currently investigating a suspected chemical attack last month in the then rebel-held town of Douma, in which medics say 40 people were killed.

In the Israeli media, Maariv and Israel Hayom report that Hamas admitted that 50 of the fatalities from Monday’s riots were the organisation’s combatants. Yediot Ahronot quotes Hamas’ leader in Gaza Yahya Sinwar who said last night in an interview to Al Jazeera that Hamas “has reached agreements with Egypt not to deteriorate the situation into a military conflagration,” but added that “if Israel spills a lot of blood we will be forced to use military resistance.” Haaretz also reports that Israel assesses that Hamas wants to avoid a large-scale clash.

Kan Radio News reports that the Israel Air Force attacked Hamas targets in the northern Gaza Strip. Four targets were attacked, including buildings and terrorist infrastructure. Three more targets in a weapons factory were also attacked.

All the papers cover increased diplomatic tension between Israel and Turkey which Maariv terms the ‘War of Humiliations’ and Israel Hayom headlines ‘Battle of Humiliations Between Turkey and Israel’. At a dinner in Ankara, Erdogan attacked the international community’s silence on the events on the Gaza border and said that Turkey would enlist on behalf of the Palestinians, would put all its resources at their disposal and would not let Israel steal Jerusalem from them. Yisrael Katz of Likud said that “Erdogan is an extremist filled with hatred who is a bitter enemy of the State of Israel. In contrast, Turkey, the country, is not Israel’s enemy and there are trade and civilian connections that benefit both sides. In a region as complex as ours, the term frenemy has been coined – in other words, friends who are also enemies. We don’t have the privilege of severing diplomatic relations with Turkey.” Diplomats said last night that it could be the crisis was only temporary and that “Erdogan is raising his tone for political reasons ahead of the elections for president on June 24.”

Yediot Ahronot reports that a Turkish company may have bought electronic equipment that are on the list of items that are banned from being exported to Iran. The UN has also asked Israel to investigate the affair since the components in question were manufactured by an Israeli company based in Jerusalem. Executives at Celem Power Capacitors, which made the equipment said last night that they were stunned upon hearing about the UN’s request adding that they had had no knowledge that the capacitors were going to be shipped to Iran.

Israel Hayom reports that the State Attorney’s Office has decided to Reopen Case 2,000 which revolves around Prime Minister Netanyahu’s dealings with Yediot Ahronoth publisher Arnon Mozes, will be partially reopened. The prime minister will be questioned under caution.