The BBC, The Times, Reuters and the FT report on missing Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi. The BBC reports that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has challenged Saudi Arabia to provide proof that he left its consulate in Istanbul. Turkey requested a search of the consulate, after saying that Khashoggi had been murdered within its walls. The Times reports that Waleed Elkhereiji, the Saudi ambassador, was summoned to the Foreign Ministry in Ankara on Sunday for the second time since Khashoggi went missing a week ago. Sedat Onal, Turkey’s deputy Foreign Minister, is said to have demanded “full co-operation” in the police investigation into what happened to Khashoggi, and President Erdogan called for Saudi officials to prove their innocence. Reuters reports that President Erdogan told a news conference in Budapest: “We have to get an outcome from this investigation as soon as possible. The consulate officials cannot save themselves by simply saying ‘he has left’”. The FT reports that the US has also expressed concern over the missing journalist. US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in a statement that there had been “conflicting reports on the safety and whereabouts” of Kashoggi, adding that the US “is concerned by his disappearance”.

The Daily Mail reports that 11 Palestinians were wounded in Gaza protests. Gaza’s Health Ministry said they were wounded by Israeli gunfire in a protest along the border with Israel. Protesters on fishing boats fixed Palestinian flags on a fence that extends into the Mediterranean. On land, other protesters briefly breached the frontier under the cover of smoke from flaming tires. Israeli soldiers responded with tear gas and gunfire.

The Express reports that Indian oil companies are defying US Iran sanctions. Indian Oil Minister Dharmendra Pradhan defended the countries actions stating India needs Iran to “fulfil” its oil requirements. India plans to buy nine million barrels of Iranian oil in November, equivalent to about 300,0000 barrels per day. US Secretary of State Pompeo understood the challenging position India are in. He said: “We expect the global leadership to acknowledge India’s need for Iran’s oil.”

Reuters and the Daily Mail report that Iran has said Saudi Arabia is unable to replace Iranian oil. Reuters reports that Iran’s Oil Minister Bijan Zanganeh has dismissed as “nonsense” claims by the Saudi Crown Prince that Saudi Arabia can replace sanctions-hit Iranian oil in the market. “(Mohammed) bin Salman’s remarks and such bragging can only satisfy (US President Donald) Trump. No one else will believe him. Iran’s oil cannot be replaced by Saudi Arabia nor any other country.” Prince bin Salman told Bloomberg on Friday that the kingdom had met its promise to Washington to make up for Iranian oil supplies lost through US sanctions, reimposed when the US exited the 2015 nuclear deal between Tehran and the six powers. The Daily Mail reports that in an interview with Bloomberg, Prince bin Salman said Saudi Arabia “did (its) job and more” by making up for the recent drop in Iranian oil sales. He said Iran’s sales had fallen by 700,000 barrels per day since the US announced in May that it was pulling out of the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran and reimposing sanctions on its oil industry.

Reuters and the Daily Mail report that Syrian rebels have completed the withdrawal of heavy weapons from the Idlib frontline. Reuters reports that weapons were withdrawn under the deal between Russia and Turkey to create a demilitarised zone, the state-owned Turkish Anadolu news agency said. Under the deal, agreed last month between Turkey and Russia, rebels deemed as radicals are required to withdraw by the middle of this month from the zone, and heavy weaponry must be withdrawn by 10 Oct. The Daily Mail reports that the National Liberation Front (NLF), the main Ankara-backed rebel alliance in Idlib, started removing weapons last weekend. Al-Qaeda affiliate Hurras al-Deen has rejected the deal outright, while Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, an alliance led by former Al-Qaeda members, has not yet taken a stance. Even rebels who have signed up to the accord have raised some objections. They say the deal demands too much of them and fear that it could eventually pave the way for a regime takeover of their main remaining stronghold.

The Israeli media reports the fallout from Sunday’s terror attack at the Barkan industrial zone. Yediot Ahronot includes an interview with Sara Vaturi, the third victim who was shot in the stomach from point blank range. She said: “The terrorist stood facing me, and shot me. The moment he shot me, I ran back into the office, I got under the desk. I put a hand on my wound and saw that I was bleeding, and the only thing I could think about was that I should breathe. Then I heard another four-five loud shots and I curled up under the desk. I saw him coming back into the office, and I saw his legs, his jeans and his sneakers. He was gone in a second and then there was silence.” A moment after the terrorist fled the scene, Basel, the veteran Palestinian warehouse manager and Yogev, another warehouse worker, came and helped save her life until medics arrived.

All the Israeli media focus on the ongoing manhunt for the attacker. Yediot Ahronot notes the instructions to the security services are clear, “treat him as an armed and particularly dangerous wanted man. In other words, it is highly likely that any encounter with him will culminate in a shootout”. Security has also been augmented at several settlements in the area. The manhunt has been described as an “unprecedented effort,” being carried out by two regional brigades, a battalion that was sent in for reinforcements and special forces, all of which have been operating around the clock. Drones have also been kept in the air at all times to help gather intelligence. According to Maariv, the security forces are waiting for the terrorist to make a mistake, while according to Yediot Ahrontot, “the assessment within the IDF and the GSS is that it is only going to be a matter of time until the terrorist is captured, since he won’t be able to survive for an extended duration of time out in the open and, as best as can be ascertained, he hadn’t prepared in advance for a scenario in which he emerged alive from the terror attack. Given the severity of the threat, the rules of engagement that apply to this manhunt is to treat the attacker as an armed wanted man.” Israel Hayom reports that the IDF are examining the possibility to make changes to inspection procedures at industrial zones in the West Bank as the attacker was able to enter the site with a gun in his bag, without being checked.

Maariv offers an assesses the logic of industrial zones in the West Bank. “The advantages for the Arabs are innumerable. They don’t need work permits to cross into the Green Line, and many of them live quite close. There is no need for them to get up in the middle of the night and make their way to distant places of employment. Job opportunities of this kind in the corrupt and failing PA are a rosy dream. Thousands of Arab families live dignified lives only thanks to the Zionist plants in Barkan.  Furthermore, “Even though the law in Judea and Samaria makes it possible under certain conditions to pay the Arabs lower  wages thanks to Jordanian law, that is not the practice in the factories in Barkan. As the owner of Alon plant, where the double murder was committed on Sunday, said, the Arab workers there receive the same salaries and conditions as do the Jewish workers, with no discrimination.”

Channel 2 news reports on the violence on the Gaza-Israel border. Yesterday 10 boats left the northern Gazan shore and confronted the Israeli navy. In addition around 5,000 Palestinians protested on the northern shore and burned tires and threw incendiary and explosive devices. Yediot Ahronot refers to the incident as a “failure on the Gaza border fence” as rioters succeeded in breaking through the gate at Zikim and set fire to an unmanned IDF position.

Israel Hayom reports on an altercation at a European Conference in Brussels yesterday during the annual dialogue between the Knesset’s Foreign Affairs Committee and the EU’s Sub-Committee. Likud MK and former head of the Shin Bet Avi Dichter was targeted by two members of the European Parliament who called him a “war criminal”. Portugal’s parliamentarian Ana Gomez said: “Mr. Chairman, you said that you are honoured to host Avi Dichter, I am disgusted, knowing that he was the head of the Shin Bet who was responsible for the targeted killing method in which many people were killed without trial in the West Bank West Bank and Gaza since 2001. He was also accused of war crimes in the US. He initiated the racist national law, which turns Arab Israelis into second-class citizens.” In contrast, other members of parliament defended Dichter, including British MEP Geoffrey Charles van Orden who said: “I want to express my condolences to families whose loved ones were murdered in the terror attack in Israel. I’m ashamed for MP Gomez that she spoke like that. Dichter has many friends here and he is welcome. He has fought terrorism for many years.” After the attack against him, Dichter again took the floor and said: “For 47 years I have been fighting terrorism. I am very proud of all the battles against the terrorists and regret the places where we were unable to block attacks. We have never tried to harm innocents.”

Haaretz analyses a New York Times report that reveals “a senior official in Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign asked an Israeli private intelligence firm to plan a ‘social media manipulation’ effort against political rivals, including the use of fake profiles and spreading false information. The contacts between Rick Gates, Trump’s deputy campaign manager in 2016, and Israeli company Psy-Group … the services were likely not used for Trump’s campaign eventually, the report says”.