The main item of Middle East related coverage in the UK media is the arrest of a French citizen on suspicion of carrying out the shootings in the Jewish museum in Belgium last week, and his apparent links to Syrian Jihadists. This story is carried in the print editions of the Guardian, Independent, Independent i, Times and Express, and online in the FT. Several reports highlight the concern for European governments that some citizens, hardened from fighting with jihadists in Syria, will return to carry out attacks in their countries of origin.

The Guardian and Independent cover Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s call on the international community not to recognise a Palestinian unity government which includes Hamas; the FT carries the story online.

Meanwhile, the FT has an editorial describing the Syrian election, in which President Assad will be re-elected on Tuesday, as a “farce” and a “pyrrhic victory”.

In other news, the FT carries a report on Middle East hackers targeting countries including both the UK and Israel, whilst the Daily Mail reports that protestors are expected at the annual meeting of private security firm G4S over its role in Israeli prisons and checkpoints in the West Bank. Over the weekend, the Times reported on Prime Minister Netanyahu’s unsuccessful attempt to have Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel elected president.

Accusations against Qatar’s World Cup bid, based on FIFA documents obtained by the Sunday Times, are also reported across the UK media.

In the Israeli media, the arrest of a French citizen in connection to the shooting in the Jewish museum in Brussels dominates the front pages of all the main titles. Two of the four victims were an Israeli couple, Emmanuel and Miri Riva, and Yosi Melman writes in Maariv that the arrest disproves speculation in the Israeli media that they had been personally targeted because they worked as accountants in the Israeli Prime Minister’s office.

The anticipated announcement of a Palestinian unity government is also widely covered, including on the front pages of Maariv, which reports that Israeli officials are disappointed that US and European officials would not rush to condemn the unity government. The Times of Israel reports that Israel’s Security Cabinet has decided not to have contact with the new government and to use some of the tax revenues it regularly transfers to the Palestinian Authority to pay debts owed to Israeli utility companies. Meanwhile, Haaretz reports that Prime Minister Netanyahu told the Security Cabinet that the US would not rush to recognise the new Palestinian government, a development also covered by Channel 2 News.

In other news, Haaretz reports on the escalation of a Palestinian hunger strike in protest over the use of administrative detention, which has seen 70 Palestinian prisoners hospitalised. In the broadcast media, Israel Radio also report on renewed rocket fire from the Gaza Strip after a period of calm.