The Independent, the Telegraph, the Guardian and the Daily Mail report that the Israel-Gaza ceasefire has continued to hold despite warning sirens heard in Israel on Sunday morning. The Independent reported that Israel carried out its “largest waves of airstrikes against Hamas militant targets in Gaza since the 2014 war”. Three Israeli citizens were injured and two teenage Palestinians were killed in the exchange of missiles on Saturday. The IDF have stated that they will continue to respond with military action to any threats made to Israeli territory. Israeli Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman said that “we have no intention of tolerating rockets, kites, drones or anything. Hamas has sustained a heavy blow”.

The Express and the Daily Mail via AP report that Syria state media SANA have accused Israel of sending missiles to Syria’s north where they have inflicted material damage to a military base in Aleppo. The Express reports that SANA wrote in a statement: “The Zionist enemy (Israel) targeted with its missiles one of our military positions north of the Neirab military airport.”

The Daily Mail via AFP report that the Israeli suspect accused of firebombing a house and killing a Palestinian toddler and his parents has been placed under house arrest. The Israeli Supreme Court on Sunday rejected an “appeal against house arrest,” his lawyers have reported. The suspect was charged with being “an accessory to racially motivated murder and is being tried as a minor”.

The Times reports on the first details released by Israeli officials about the raid carried out by Mossad agents on a warehouse in Tehran which resulted in the possession of “tens of thousands of documents on Iran’s nuclear programme”. According to the Times, Mossad agents were able to infiltrate the warehouse “one night in January,” as the site was left unguarded and only protected by an alarm system.

In the Israeli media, Kan radio news report that Syria blames Israel for an attack on military positions north of the Nejrab Airport in Aleppo, approximately 350 kilometers from the border with Israel. The official Syrian news agency report that a Syrian army outpost was damaged but no one was injured. According to the report, the Israeli strike was designed to help the rebels who were under attack in southwest Syria, not far from the Golan Heights border. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Spokesperson’s Office issued a statement saying that the army does not comment on foreign reports. Channel 2 News adds that according to Syrian sources this morning, nine Syrian soldiers were killed in the attack.

Israel Hayom reports on Gaza and quotes security cabinet ministers saying that “the rules for kites is the same as the rule for Kassam rockets”. Yediot Ahronot reports that the security cabinet held a tense meeting yesterday to discuss the escalation on the Gaza border. The paper quotes a harsh exchange between Education Minister Naftali Bennett and Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Gadi Eisenkot regarding the military response to flying firebombs into Israeli territory. Bennett asked “why not shoot at anyone” discharging aerial weapons at Israeli communities and at the (kit-building) cells. He claimed “there’s no legal obstacle” and added “why shoot near and not at them? They’re terrorists in every sense”. Eisenkot replied: “I don’t think that shooting teenagers and children, who are sometimes the ones flying the balloons and kites, is right.” Bennet asked if his position would be the same if it was an adult, to which Eisenkot responded: “Are you suggesting that we drop a bomb from a plane on kite and balloon cells?” Bennett responded affirmatively, and Eisenkot said: “I disagree with you. That runs against my operational and moral position.”

Yediot Ahronot notes the number of fires that broke out yesterday was the lowest in two months, with only six fires in the Gaza periphery. This includes damage to around 12 acres of chickpea fields in Kibbutz Alumim. A fire also broke out in the Assaf Simhoni Forest near Kibbutz Nahal Oz. Another two fires broke out in open areas near Kibbutz Beeri. Three Israel Air Force (IAF) aircraft attacked three kite and balloon cells yesterday in Gaza. Until now, an average of 20 incendiary devices were flown into Israel daily.

Maariv reports that Iron Dome batteries have been deployed in central Israel. While that decision is ostensibly an operational one, it also serves as a signal to Hamas about Israel’s readiness to engage in a far broader conflagration.

Israel Hayom reports that Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories, Maj. Gen. Kamil Abu Rukon, yesterday posted on his Arabic language Facebook page a video in which Hamas operatives are seen training to kidnap an IDF soldier in a park and the adjacent high-rise building that was attacked on Saturday by the IAF. Following the air strike, Hamas officials lambasted the IDF for attacking a “children’s playground”. “The truth is before you,” wrote Abu Rukon. “Urban warfare training and an exercise simulating the kidnapping of an IDF soldier and taking him down into a terrorist tunnel. Resident of Gaza, understand, anyone who carries out terrorist training near a park where children play doesn’t care about your children.”

Haaretz report on the compromise reached between the Prime Minister and Naftali Bennett on the Nationality Bill. The paper notes the bill will allow the state to promote Jewish settlements. Maariv quotes severe criticism from the opposition including Meretz Chairwoman Tamar Zandberg, who said: “This bill is not a nationality bill, but a racism bill. A bill that was born in sin and that fanatic and nationalist members of the coalition promoted by means of arm-twisting.”