In the UK media, the Independent reports that the approaching deadline to demolish homes in the Givat Ulpena settlement is deepening fractures in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government. BBC Online quotes warning by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon that Syria is not complying with the truce agreement brokered several weeks ago. The Guardian notes that approximately 2,000 Palestinian prisoners have joined a hunger strike in Israeli jails, quoting human rights groups in the West Bank. BBC also reports that Jordan’s prime minister resigned after failing to deliver on promises of economic and political reform, after only six months in the job.

Today’s Israeli papers all quote Defence Minister Barak who warned of the regional impact of Iranian nuclear capabilities yesterday. Barak warned that although a military operation against Iran would be complex, ‘if the ayatollah regime is allowed to obtain military nuclear capability, coping with the challenge will be far more complex, dangerous and immeasurably more costly in human lives and in monetary resources.’ Israel Radio news reports that US Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta said that he hoped that Israel’s Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz is correct in assessing that the Iranian leaders are very rational people, and that they have yet to decide to develop nuclear weapons. Israel Hayom reports on the escalation in violence in Syria and France’s threats to take military action if the Assad regime does not halt its attack against opposition forces. Yedioth Ahronoth reports on new assessments that the Knesset elections will be moved up either to the end of this year or shortly afterwards. Yedioth Ahronoth also reports that Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein will today go to the High Court of Justice to request a delay in the eviction of the Givat Ulpena outpost, during which time the government will try to find another solution. Maariv reports that Egyptian soldiers prevented young members of the ‘Sinai Revolutionaries movement’ from damaging the ‘Monument of the Ten’, which was erected near El Arish in memory of ten Israeli soldiers killed on the site in a helicopter crash in July 1971.