The Times and the online edition of the Daily Mail both report that Israeli police have recently arrested around 1,200 Palestinians illegally residing in Israel. The crackdown is a response to the current wave of terror attacks, which has seen at least 31 Israelis killed since October by Palestinian assailants. The arrests began the day after a Palestinian illegally in Israel carried out a series of stabbings in Jaffa earlier this month, killing one and injuring a dozen more. Israeli police have also arrested 150 Israelis illegally employing Palestinians without permits during the crackdown.

The Daily Mail online says that Hamas has staged major military exercises in the Gaza Strip, but insists that the drills are not an “announcement of war.”

The online editions of the Telegraph, Guardian and Daily Mail all cover the aftermath of Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump’s address to the American Israeli Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC). During his speech, Trump was widely applauded by the audience for sharp attacks on President Barack Obama. The head of AIPAC yesterday took the unusual step of publicly condemning “attacks on the President of the United States” as highly divisive and potentially undermining the organisation’s “deep respect” for the office.

The Telegraph online reports that cadets of the newly-formed Cyber Command of the Israeli army undergoes a week-long training exercise on a ‘Harry Potter-style’ virtual training field. The Cyber Command has been established to spearhead all operational activity in the cyber sphere.

The print edition of the Telegraph says that a new Israeli app called “999 Instagram” is being developed to allow video emergency calls, which will help emergency services to assess the nature of a crisis situation.

The Sun online includes a profile of Israeli actress Gal Gadot, who stars as Wonder Woman in the new film “Batman vs Superman.” The article highlights Gadot’s two-year military service in the Israeli army.

The Hebrew press this morning is dominated by reports about the attacks in Brussels with extensive news coverage and commentary about their implications. Writing in Ma’ariv, Ben Caspit argues that following the attack, the Europeans will also understand that they are fighting for their lives, describing the terror attack as a campaign that some call a third world war.  In Yedioth Ahronoth, military affairs commentator Alex Fishman writes that as long as Europe continues to treat ISIS’‎s terrorism as tragic and isolated incidents rather than a strategic threat it will lose. Also in Yedioth Ahronoth Ronen Bergman offers practical remedies based on how Israel has historically dealt with terrorist threats.