The Times reports on the potential significance of the recent Palestinian application to UN agencies, writing that on 2 May, the Palestinians will be formally admitted to 10 international conventions overseen by the UN. The paper suggests this move “could spell the end of the faltering American backed peace process.” The Telegraph also discusses potential consequences of the end of negotiations, describing contrasting feelings in the Palestinian city Jenin in which some former fighters call for a return to an armed uprising against Israel if talks fail while others oppose a third Intifada. Also on the Palestinian issue, the Guardian’s Comment is Free section publishes an opinion piece by Yoaz Hendel, current head of the Institute for Zionist Strategies (IZS) and former Director of Communications and Public Diplomacy for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. In it, he calls for moving towards an interim accord that would create a Palestinian state in provisional borders.

The Independent, Times, Financial Times and Guardian all cover Labour Party leader Ed Miliband’s three day trip to Israel. Mr Miliband visited Yad Vashem, the Holocaust memorial museum and spoke to students at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem in which, touching on his grandmother’s experience of finding refuge in Israel after the Second World War, he described Israel as, “the homeland for the Jewish people.”

In regional news, several outlets write stories on Syria. The Times reports that Britain and America are investigating claims that the Syrian government has carried out a series of new chemical attacks in the suburbs of Damascus. British officials are aware of multiple allegations of chemical attacks designed to terrorise opposition controlled areas around the capital. Additionally, The Telegraph argues that the crisis in Syria has emerged as the biggest threat to Britain’s security and reports that as many as 500 Britons have headed to Syria to fight in the past three years – far higher than the numbers who travelled to Iraq.

The Times also runs a story on Syrian rebels who have reportedly been trained in US sponsored army camps in Jordan. It also relates that Britain and America are investigating claims that the Syrian government carried out a series of new chemical attacks in the suburbs of Damascus last week. The Guardian meanwhile runs a feature on Cape Ray, a specially modified US ship charged with destroying Syria’s 1,300-ton chemical stockpile at sea.

In the Israeli press, there are several reports about continuing attempts to renew peace negotiations, with negotiators from both sides meeting for the fourth consecutive day with US mediators. Haaretz quotes the head of the Arab League, Egyptian diplomat Nabil Elaraby, who is confident that Israel and the Palestinians will resolve a crisis over the release of long-held Palestinian prisoners and extend their US-brokered peace negotiations beyond an April deadline. In addition, the Jerusalem Post reports on a potential coalition crisis within Israel following threats by Jewish Home party leader Naftali Bennet to bolt the coalition if an agreement is reached which includes the release of prisoners who are Arab citizens of Israel imprisoned for murder. Several media outlets also report on increased tension between the army and local residents in the Israeli settlement of Yitzhar.