The BBC online reports that seven people have been killed and more than 70 wounded after fighting in northern Lebanon between two Muslim communities divided over Syria. The BBC also reports that Syria’s deputy prime minister has said the government is prepared to discuss the exit of Bashar al-Assad, but that the president’s resignation cannot be a pre-condition for talks. Security sources in Israel have told the Daily Mail that Israel is planning a military strike against Iran’s nuclear programme before November. British officials say that  Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has begun a process of ‘sounding out’ his voters to gauge support for airstrikes and build a case for military action. Alon Ben-David, the well-informed military correspondent for Israel’s Channel 10 News, claimed on Monday that the country is ‘closer than ever’ to a strike against Iran. The Daily Telegraph notes that Iran’s Supreme Leader has ordered the elite Quds Force unit of the country’s Revolutionary Guards to intensify its campaign of terrorist attacks against the West and its allies as a response to their support for overthrowing Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad. The Evening Standard report that US authorities said they have seized £95 million from a bank allegedly linked to money-laundering for the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah. Last year, the US accused the Lebanese Canadian Bank of helping to launder Hezbollah’s profits from drug trafficking. The Telegraph’s Con Coughlin analyses the dangers posed by Syria’s stockpile of chemical weapons. The Guardian‘s leader warns that the civil war currently under way in Syria will not be won any time soon.

Reactions to the violent attack against three Arab teenagers in Jerusalem last week are widely covered in the Israeli media. Ynet and the Jerusalem Post note that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu condemned the lynching. The Times of Israel reports on the failings of the police to prevent the attack and the malfunction of CCTV cameras placed in the site. Haaretz reports that Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman has sent a letter to the foreign ministers of the Middle East Quartet members, calling on them to press for new elections in the Palestinian Authority to replace President Mahmoud Abbas, whom Lieberman described as an obstacle to peace. The paper also reports that Syrian Vice President Qadri Jamil said in a press conference on Tuesday that Damascus is willing to discuss President Bashar Assad’s resignation. The Times of Israel and Haaretz notes that the United States supports Egypt’s military deployments in the Sinai Peninsula, but insists such actions be coordinated with Israel while observing the 1979 peace treaty, a State Department spokesperson said Tuesday.