There is wide coverage of the report published yesterday by the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) appointed inquiry, into Operation Protective Edge last summer. The Guardian, Times, Telegraph, Financial Times, Independent, Daily Mirror, Daily Mail and Independent i all say the report concluded that both Israel and Hamas may have been responsible for war crimes during the Gaza conflict. The report acknowledges that Israel took action to limit civilian casualties, but says it may not have done enough. Hamas is accused of firing indiscriminately at Israeli civilians and operating from civilian areas in Gaza.

Both the Financial Times and Julian Borger in the Guardian say that the report is likely to bolster the International Criminal Court’s (ICC) preliminary inquiry into the conflict, prompted by a Palestinian request, which although in its early stages could lead to the prosecution of Israeli officials. In the Independent, Kim Sengupta says that the reaction of Israeli and Hamas officials, who both criticised the report, was entirely predictable. Meanwhile, a Guardian editorial urges both sides to “bring those accused of grave crimes to justice” in order to seize the moral high ground which they claim.

The Independent and Independent i both report that Arab Joint List MK Basel Ghattas has announced that he will join the latest flotilla from abroad which will attempt to reach the Gaza Strip despite Israeli naval restrictions, which were put in place to prevent Hamas’s import of weapons and dangerous materials.

The Telegraph online reports an incident in the Israeli Golan Heights yesterday, in which Israeli Druze residents ambushed an Israeli military ambulance evacuating wounded Syrians for hospital treatment, who had arrived at the country’s border injured in the country’s civil war. The mob reportedly killed one of the patients in the ambulance, who they said was an Islamist fighter, part of a group threatening the Druze population across the Syrian border.

The Guardian online covers comments made recently by Israel’s former-Ambassador to the United States Michael Oren, who sharply criticised US President Barack Obama in a new book. The comments have placed Oren, a new MK for Kulanu at apparent odds with party leader, Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon.

The Times says that Iran’s parliament voted in favour of a bill to restrict foreign inspections of nuclear sites, complicating a potential deal over Tehran’s nuclear programme. In an interview with the Telegraph, Israel’s opposition leader, Zionist Union head Isaac Herzog said that there is “no daylight” between him and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Iran’s nuclear development and that he is especially concerned about the nascent deal’s provision for inspections.

In Syria, the online editions of the Guardian and Telegraph report that ISIS is said to have hanged two boys for not fasting during Ramadan. Meanwhile, the Independent online covers a Chatham House report which concludes that Syria is on the verge of economic collapse.

In the Israeli media, yesterday’s report by the UNHRC-appointed commission of inquiry is the top story in Yediot Ahronot, Maariv, Haaretz and Israel Hayom. The report is termed “hypocritical” by Maariv and dubbed the “terrorist rights report” by Israel Hayom. However, leading commentators, Nahum Barnea in Yediot Ahronot and Ben Caspit in Maariv are both critical of the automatic condemnation by Israeli officials, with Caspit commenting, “It looked as if they had written their responses long before they’d even read the report.”

The ambush by Druze citizens of an ambulance transporting Syrian fighters is also a major item in Yediot Ahronot, Maariv, Haaretz and Israel Hayom. Most refer to the incident as a “lynch.” Israel Radio news says that Prime Minister Netanyahu pledged that nobody would be allowed to take the law into their own hands, while IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eizenkot said that troops have been given instructions on how to respond to future similar incidents.