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Media Summary

The BBC reports that the Israeli government has authorised nine Jewish settlements in the West Bank which were previously unauthorised outposts.

The Independent, The Telegraph and The Guardian report that the former Israeli prime minister Naftali Bennett has said in an interview that Vladimir Putin told him he would not try to kill Volodymyr Zelenskiy, a promise made during a trip to Moscow shortly after Russia invaded Ukraine last year.

The BBC and Reuters report on our main story, that Israel and Sudan are finalising a deal to normalise relations, with a signing ceremony expected following a transfer of power from the military to a civilian government in Khartoum. 

The BBC, Sky News, Reuters and The Guardian report that US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has criticised Israeli settlement activity in the occupied West Bank as an obstacle to peace.

The BBC, The Guardian, The Telegraph, Daily Mail, The Sun, ITV, The Mirror and Sky News all report on the incident on Friday night, when a gunman shot and killed seven people outside a synagogue in a settlement north of Jerusalem in the deadliest attack on Israeli citizens in the region since 2008.

The Telegraph reports that Isaac Herzog has warned that the country is on the brink of an “internal struggle” that could “consume us all” over the government’s controversial legal reforms.