The online edition of the Guardian and the Independent report that a court in Turkey is set to hold a hearing today which will charge four Israeli generals in absentia over the deaths of ten Turkish citizens who were killed on the Gaza-bound protest ship, the Mavi Marmara in 2010. However, the reports say that the case could be dropped as a result of June’s reconciliation agreement between Israel and Turkey, which re-established diplomatic ties. One of the conditions of the agreement was an end to all outstanding cases against Israelis involved in the Mavi Marmara incident.

The Independent reports that the director of SOAS at the University of London has written a complaint to the Israeli Embassy after one of its lecturers, Dr Adam Hanieh was recently detained at Israel’s Ben Gurion International Airport and eventually deported. He was scheduled to give a lecture at Birzeit University in the West Bank.

The Financial Times online includes a feature on the al-Qattan family, whose foundation is a major funder of Palestinian cultural institutions.

The Independent reports comments made by one of Israel’s two chief rabbis, Rabbi Yitzchak Yosef, who recently publicly described the events in Syria as a “small holocaust”.

The Guardian online says that the UK and the US  have rejected a Russian and Syrian offer of a temporary “pause” in the bombardment of the Syrian city of Aleppo. They maintain that any credible ceasefire must last for at least 48 hours.

Meanwhile, the online editions of the Times and Guardian cover comments made by Asma al-Assad, the UK-born and raised wife of Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad. She told Russian television that she had rejected offers of asylum since the Syrian civil war broke out.

The Times reports that a retired US general could be jailed after allegedly lying to the FBI during a 2012 investigation examining how details of the Stuxnet virus became public. The Stuxnet project is reported to have been developed jointly by the US and Israeli intelligence services as a way to disrupt the computer system controlling Iran’s uranium enrichment programme.

The Metro includes an interview with Israeli model turned actress Gal Gadot about her new film, “Keeping up with the Joneses”.

In the Israeli media, the top story in Haaretz, which is also covered prominently in Maariv and Israel Radio is a leaked internal IDF report into the army’s preparation and handling of Hamas’s tunnel threat in Operation Protective Edge during summer 2014. The investigation, headed by Maj. Gen. Yossi Bachar concludes that the army’s preparations were flawed and that, although the tunnel threat was known, there was little coordination in dealing with it. The leaked IDF report comes ahead of an anticipated report by the State Comptroller which will focus on how the tunnels were dealt with at the strategic and intelligence level mainly by the country’s political leadership.

Commenting on the IDF report in Maariv, Yossi Melman says that former IDF Chief of Staff Benny Gantz could be the main loser, and that “the question is whether Gantz, who is known to be easy-going, will agree to play the role of the guilty party or whether he will fight for his good reputation”.

Yediot Ahronot and Israel Radio news report that a performance yesterday in the mixed Arab-Jewish city of Haifa by Tamer Nafar, an Arab-Israeli rapper, was disrupted by a handful of right-wing activists. Nafar was recently criticised by Culture Minister Miri Regev for reciting a poem by Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish, known for his hostility towards Israel, at the annual awards ceremony for Israel’s film industry.

Yediot Ahronot also reports that two Israelis were lightly injured yesterday when stones were thrown at their car in an Arab neighbourhood in east Jerusalem.