Today’s House of Commons debate and potentially symbolic vote urging the government to recognise a Palestinian state is widely covered. The Guardian, Times, Financial Times, Daily Mail and Sun all preview the debate with an emphasis on the disagreement within Labour ranks over the issue. The Labour leadership had been the only party to impose a three-line whip only to seemingly backtrack and allow MPs, including Shadow Cabinet members to absent themselves from the vote. The Independent meanwhile focuses its coverage on criticism of the motion by the Board of Deputies of British Jews on the grounds that recognition of a Palestinian state outside the context of peace talks could undermine any wider peace process.

Expanding on the issue in the Telegraph, Conservative MP Guto Bebb says that today’s parliamentary vote could undermine the UK’s role in the Middle East. Meanwhile, in the Times, Melanie Phillips writes that a vote in favour of today’s motion “will turn parliament into a human shield for Palestinian rejectionism,” effectively absolving the Palestinian leadership from the need to negotiate with Israel.

The Guardian, Times, Telegraph, Financial Times, Metro and Daily Star all cover yesterday’s international donor conference in Egypt’s capital Cairo, to raise funds for the reconstruction of Gaza following Operation Protective Edge. A total of £3.2 billion was reportedly pledged, exceeding the amount requested by the Palestinian Authority (PA). The total includes £20 million pledged by the UK for bomb disposal and medical aid. Israel was not invited to participate in yesterday’s gathering.

The Independent and the online edition of the Guardian both include separate items on comments made at yesterday’s Cairo conference by US Secretary of State John Kerry, who called for a renewed commitment to peace between Israel and the Palestinians. He pledged American support for such efforts. Kerry spearheaded peace talks between the two sides, which collapsed earlier this year after the PA announced a Palestinian national unity government in partnership with Hamas.

In the Israeli media, the international donor conference for Gaza aid which took place yesterday in Cairo is a major item in Yediot Ahronot. Meanwhile, Haaretz headlines comments made by Egypt’s President al-Sisi, who urged Israel to adopt the 2002 Arab Peace Initiative, which essentially outlines possible wide-ranging Israeli concessions towards the Palestinians in return for a rapprochement with the wider Arab world. Commentators including Amir Bohbot in Walla News and Boaz Bismuth in Israel Hayom raise concerns that reconstruction of Gaza could allow Hamas the opportunity to rehabilitate its weaponry and infrastructure.

Another major item is the decision taken yesterday by the Israeli government to tighten border controls and increase screening of those arriving from Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia, to guard against the Ebola virus. It is the top story in Israel Hayom, while Maariv suggests that the Health Ministry will conduct surprise exercises in hospitals to simulate combatting infections.

Israel Radio news reports this morning that United Nations’ Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will visit Israel today, having attended yesterday’s international donor conference in Cairo. He is set to meet with top Israeli officials during his visit.