The continuing violence of the Gaza conflict is reported by the Guardian, Independent and Metro. More than 120 rockets were fired yesterday from Gaza into Israel, while Israel’s air force continued to strike strategic targets in Gaza. The Daily Mirror notes that Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned that all Hamas fighters and leaders are targets. However, all publications note that Egypt continues to work on a ceasefire proposal with rumours circulating that Israel and Hamas are close to agreeing a month-long truce.

The Daily Express, Times and the online edition of the Telegraph all note that a senior Iranian military official yesterday admitted that Tehran had helped supply rockets to Hamas and threatened to “accelerate” support for Hamas in the West Bank. The comments were an apparent response to Iran’s claim that over the weekend it shot down an Israeli drone near the Natanz nuclear plant.

The Financial Times says that Israel is experiencing a downturn in economic growth, cutting interest rates, as part of the fallout from Operation Protective Edge. The article notes that Israeli tourism and exports in particular have suffered from the conflict.

The Daily Star says that a number of A-list Hollywood stars including Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger have signed a petition supporting Israel and calling for a peaceful resolution to the Gaza conflict. The Guardian online notes that British film director Ken Loach has called for a cultural and sporting boycott of Israel and claimed that the UK government “follows the bully that is the United States.” The Telegraph says that some activists in Gaza are promoting the “rubble bucket” challenge as an alternative to the wildly popular “ice bucket challenge” in order to promote awareness of the plight of Gazans.

Writing in the Daily Express, Douglas Murray says that Christians face eradication in the Middle East with precious little opposition or outrage in the West. He notes that Israel is the one country in the region where Christianity continues to flourish.

In the Israeli media, Yediot Ahronot leads with a reflection on Operation Protective Edge as the violence continues, publishing the headline “50 days of warfare.” Makor Rishon and Haaretz focus on the rocket fire which was concentrated yesterday on communities near the Gaza border, with many residents temporarily evacuating their homes. Meanwhile, Maariv and Israel Hayom highlight Egyptian efforts to broker a month-long ceasefire. Maariv says that only Hamas’s political leader Khaled Mashaal stands in the way of such an agreement.

In Yediot Ahronot, Alex Fishman says that Egypt, the Palestinian Authority (PA), United States and European countries are looking to link a potential ceasefire to a broader peace process between Israel and the PA. Meanwhile, in an assessment of Operation Protective Edge until now, Yoav Limor writes in Israel Hayom that, “Hamas took a hard, possibly unprecedented, hit, however, it succeeded in dragging Israel into an extended, expensive (in money and blood) and frustrating battle, and most importantly— a battle without a clear victory.”

Israel Radio news reports this morning that two Katyusha rockets were fired from southern Lebanon at northern Israel last night, but neither caused injuries nor damage. The same report says that three children were lightly injured last night after rocks were thrown at Israeli cars in the Wadi Joz neighbourhood of East Jerusalem.