The Telegraph, Financial Times, Independent and Independent i all report that Israeli security forces have uncovered an advanced, fortified tunnel which stretches beneath the Gaza border several hundred metres into Israel and is assumed to have been constructed for use in a terror attack. Israel’s Defence Minister Moshe Ya’alon announced that shipments of specific building materials into the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip for private use will be once again frozen. Curbs on such imports had recently been eased after several years in which Israel restricted the influx of certain building materials for fear of their use in terror activities.

Speculation continues regarding possible progress in negotiations between Iran and the international community over Tehran’s nuclear program, with Iranian officials and P5+1 representatives set to meet tomorrow in Geneva. The Times, Independent, Independent i, Guardian, Financial Times and Telegraph all report indications by Iran’s deputy foreign minister that Tehran is prepared to accept restrictions on enrichment in exchange for sanctions relief, but will not ship uranium abroad. The Telegraph and the Daily Mail report that Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called Prime Minister David Cameron and French President Francois Hollande to request that both countries maintain the pressure of sanctions on Iran. The Guardian online says that US Secretary of State John Kerry told leaders of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) that the window for diplomacy with Iran is “cracking open” but that “our eyes are open.” An editorial in the Independent cautions against expecting too much from this week’s talks with the key to progress lying in complex details, while the Financial Times editorial says that Iran must show that it means business if diplomacy is to prosper.

The Guardian includes a feature on a Palestinian woman in the Gaza Strip who has given birth to a baby boy after the sperm of her husband, who is imprisoned in Israel for terror offences, was smuggled through checkpoints into Gaza.

A feature in the Independent focuses on the poor treatment of Syrian refugees in neighbouring Lebanon. Meanwhile, the online editions of the Guardian, Telegraph and Independent all report that seven workers from the International Committee of the Red Cross were kidnapped yesterday in the Idlib region of northern Syria by suspected opposition forces.

The Times reports that around eight million Egyptian have signed a petition calling on General al-Sisi, the country’s military chief and de facto Egyptian leader to stand for president. Opponents have called it an attempt to complete the return to military rule in Egypt.

The discovery of the tunnel beneath the Gaza border into Israel is the top story in the Israeli media this morning. It is the front page headline in both Yediot Ahronot and Israel Hayom which declares “500 tons of concrete for terrorism.” Maariv’s headline focuses on Israel’s decision to freeze the entry of construction materials into the Gaza Strip following the discovery of what it has dubbed the “terror tunnel.”

The headline in Haaretz highlights Iran’s apparent refusal to concede its enriched uranium in advance of talks with representatives of the P5+1 forum which are set to take place in Geneva tomorrow. Israel Radio news covers John Kerry’s comments yesterday, in which he emphasised that the United States would prefer to have no agreement rather than a bad agreement over Iran’s nuclear development.

Israel Radio news also reports that Rabbi David Yosef, the son of Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, the Shas and Sephardi community mentor who died last week, will succeed his father on the influential Shas Council of Torah Sages. He pledged to fight against attempts to enlist ultra-Orthodox seminary students.