The Guardian reports that Foreign Secretary William Hague will accompany US Secretary of State John Kerry during a visit to Israel and the Palestinian territories starting on Thursday. It will be Kerry’s fourth trip to the region since taking office in February as he continues to make a concerted effort to kick-start direct talks between Israeli and Palestinian leaders. Hague is expected to meet both Israeli and Palestinian leaders in an attempt to support Kerry’s efforts.

Hague’s statement to the House of Commons on Syria yesterday is also widely reported this morning. The Guardian online highlights Hague’s call for the European Union (EU) to alter its’ comprehensive arms embargo on Syria while the Financial Times online says that the UK could use its’ veto if the EU insists on renewing the ban. The Independent online focuses on Hague’s insistence that no options are off the table in resolving the bloody Syrian conflict while the Telegraph online emphasises his call for the Syrian opposition to agree to negotiations. Meanwhile, in Syria itself, the online editions of the Times, Telegraph and Financial Times report on the extensive role being played by Hezbollah in an ongoing offensive by President Assad’s forces against the opposition in the strategic town of Qusair.

The Times, Independent, Metro and Evening Standard cover the tragic shooting yesterday at a bank in the southern Israeli city of Beer Sheva, which killed four people plus the assailant. The killer, a forty-year-old local man, had reportedly been refused a loan the day before yesterday and his actions appeared to be intended as a form of revenge.

The Guardian, Times, Independent i, Telegraph and Independent report on the publication of an Israeli government commissioned report which concluded that Mohammed al-Dura, the twelve-year-old Palestinian boy who became the icon of the Second Intifada, was not killed by Israeli gunfire in an incident in the Gaza Strip in 2000 and was possibly not killed at all. Meanwhile, the Guardian online includes a small item on an industry report that says that Israel is the world’s largest exporter of drones. The Telegraph online says that Israel has cancelled a UNESCO visit to the region following fears that it would become politicised after the Palestinian Authority Foreign Minister said that the trip would “probe the occupation measures”.

The deadly bank shooting in Beer Sheva yesterday dominates the Israeli media this morning. So much so, that Yediot Ahronot devotes its’ first fifteen pages to the story, calling it an “insane killing spree.” It is the front-page headline in every title, with Israel Hayom declaring “Massacre at the bank,” while Haaretz calls it a “revenge shooting spree” and Maariv refers to it as a “financial terror attack.” According to Israel Radio news, the killer Itamar Alon, who eventually turned the gun on himself, had previously received an award from the Mayor of Beer Sheva for having shot a terrorist, preventing a deadly attack.

In other news, both Yediot Ahronot and Makor Rishon cover comments made by Finance Minister Yair Lapid, who sought to clarify remarks that he made in a recent interview with the New York Times. At a meeting of his Yesh Atid faction, Lapid yesterday reiterated his support for an immediate return to peace talks with the Palestinians, after he appeared to imply in the interview that Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas was not likely to conclude a peace deal.

Maariv reports that Druze residents of the Israeli Golan Heights are increasingly anxious over the possibility of being caught in the middle of a conflict between Israel and Syria and that many are stockpiling supplies in the event of an emergency.