The Daily Mail includes a feature on the dangers of boycotting Israeli companies with a presence in the West Bank. Focusing on the example of a plastics factory in Barkan which employs hundreds of Palestinians alongside Israelis, the article argues that such businesses are both a positive example of coexistence and an important source of prosperity for many Palestinians.

An Amnesty International report published yesterday, which accuses Israeli forces of being “trigger happy” in the West Bank is covered by the Guardian, Independent and Telegraph. The report claims that Israeli soldiers have used excessive, reckless violence over the last three years and suggests that the international community halt arms sales to Israel. All reports note that Israeli officials have said that Amnesty’s report ignores the reality of a recent rise in attacks on Israelis in the West Bank and that Israeli authorities were not consulted in compiling the report. In the Telegraph online, Israel’s Ambassador to the UK Daniel Taub describes Amnesty’s report as, “more to do with politics than human rights.”

The Independent i says that Israeli forces were yesterday involved in a stand-off in the West Bank with a terror suspect affiliated with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, who refused to give himself up and was then killed in the ensuing gunfire.

Writing in the online edition of the Guardian, Ian Black says US Secretary of State John Kerry’s diplomatic efforts to broker a peace deal between Israel and the Palestinian Authority (PA) are likely to end in failure. However, it is unclear what would come next with the PA expected to turn to the United Nations and other international bodies for recognition and renewed violence also a possibility.

The Financial Times previews next week’s annual policy conference in Washington DC of the influential pro-Israel American lobby group AIPAC. The article says that AIPAC finds itself in an unfamiliar ambiguous position over Iran sanctions. Although the organisation supports a bill to impose new sanctions on Tehran if it breaches the terms of agreements reached with the international community on its nuclear programme; AIPAC is not currently supporting a vote on the proposed legislation, following explicit White House opposition to the initiative.

The Guardian online says that John Kerry told a group of reporters that he is concerned by a “new isolationism” over international affairs, which is gaining popularity in the United States. He also said that the US has an obligation to pursue diplomacy with Iran before making any decision to go to war, in an indication that American military action is still on the table.

The Times reports that the Assad regime in Syria has arrested relatives of opposition delegates at the recent Geneva II talks and that US State Department officials have suggested it is part of Assad’s attempt to scupper peace negotiations. Meanwhile, according to the Telegraph online, the Islamist opposition group ISIS has told Christians in the Raqqa province to pay a protection tax.

In the Israeli media, Haaretz says that US President Obama will press both Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and PA President Mahmoud Abbas over what will happen if they do not conclude a peace deal. Meanwhile, Maariv reports on an apparent classified Israel Foreign Ministry report which details attempts by the PA to cast Israel as the guilty party if peace talks fail to bear fruit.

Yediot Ahronot and Israel Hayom say a huge ultra-Orthodox protest is being planned for Sunday in Jerusalem against the proposed legislation to draft ultra-Orthodox seminary students. In Maariv, ultra-Orthodox MK Moshe Gafni is quoted saying that his party could support measures against West Bank goods and produce as perceived revenge against religious Zionists, including the Jewish Home party, who helped craft and support the proposed bill.

Israel Radio news says that Israeli Police will deploy beefed up forces at the Temple Mount in Jerusalem today ahead of Muslim prayers following tension this week regarding sovereignty over the holy site.