The Telegraph online says that Hamas has denied claims by a senior Israeli general that ISIS fighters are training in the Gaza Strip alongside Hamas. Over the weekend, Maj. Gen. Yoav Mordechai, who oversees activity regarding Palestinian territories, told a Saudi news website that ISIS fighters recently entered Gaza via tunnels underneath the Egyptian border. A Hamas official said that Mordechai’s claims amount to “incitement”.

The i reports on a meeting yesterday between Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault in Jerusalem. Netanyahu repeated Israel’s opposition to France’s initiative of a multi-lateral peace conference, in which neither Israel nor the Palestinians would be involved in the initial planning stages. Netanyahu reiterated that direct talks between the two sides are the only route to peace.

The Telegraph reports that Israeli and Palestinian officials, plus eight fractious Christian denominations, have all cooperated with the UK-based charity Halo Trust to launch a project to clear land mines from the area around a prominent church on the Jordan River, which traditionally marks one of the spots at which Jesus was baptized. The mines and ordnance have remained in place since the Six Day War in 1967. The project will begin in 2017 and will take two years to complete.

The i includes a feature on Israel’s ‘cyber city’ in the southern city of Beer Sheva. The campus includes the National Cyber Bureau, a public-privately funded cyber incubator and research capability from Beer Sheva University. The article says: “No other country is so purposefully integrating its private, scholarly, government and military cyber expertise.”

Writing in the Guardian online, Ahmad Samih Khalidi says that it “behoves the UK… to acknowledge its role in the dispossession of the Palestinians,” given the Balfour Declaration, which one hundred years ago formalised British support for a Jewish state in the land which is now Israel.

Writing in the i, Robert Fisk profiles the senior Hezbollah commander Mustafa Badraddine, who was killed last week in Syria. Hezbollah has since blamed Sunni terror groups for his death. Fisk argues that Badraddine’s most significant act was the assassination of former-Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri in 2005, which he says sparked Saudi determination against Syria’s President Assad, starting a chain of events leading to the continuing bloodshed in Syria.

The Guardian online says that more than 100 peaceful protesters in Egypt have been sentenced to five years imprisonment by courts in Cairo following recent demonstrations against Egypt’s decision to return two Red Sea islands to Saudi Arabia.

In the Israeli media, the top story in Yediot Ahronot, Israel Hayom, Maariv and Haaretz is an apparent rift between Defence Minister Moshe Ya’alon and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Ya’alon has been summoned for a “clarification conversation” with Netanyahu this morning, after Ya’alon yesterday delivered a speech to IDF leadership, saying: “I demand from you and your subordinates once again: continue to speak your minds… even if [what you have to say] isn’t part of the mainstream, even if it differs from the positions and ideas voiced by senior commanders or the political leadership.”

Ya’alon’s comments have been interpreted by many as criticism of Netanyahu’s condemnation of IDF Deputy Chief of Staff Yair Golan, who recently said that he sees some of the societal processes from 1930s Germany in Israel today. Israel Hayom says Netanyahu is “furious” at Ya’alon and Maariv says they are on a “collision course”. Channel Two speculates that Yisrael Beitenu leader Avigdor Lieberman could be offered Ya’alon’s position, while Ben Caspit in Maariv suggests that Ya’alon could leave Likud and form his own faction.

Haaretz and Maariv both prominently report the visit yesterday of French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault, who insisted that the French peace initiative will proceed without Israel’s backing.

Israel Radio news covers a new study by the Taub Centre for Social Policy Studies, which has found that house prices have increased in Israel during the past nine years, whereas real income has not increased for fifteen years, making it hard for young couples to get a foot on the property ladder.